# Hilarious spam I got today

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-spam-i-got-today/362491>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 28, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-spam-i-got-today/362491 "2006-06-28T13:57:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-spam-i-got-today/362491/1 "2006-06-28T13:57:05Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Special Message for you
> 
> If you have some problem in your life
> 
> 1. Love marriage
> 2. Bad behave child’s
> 3. Damn effects
> 4. Jobless
> 5. Visa problem
> 6. Lottery numbers
> 7. Thai lottery
> 8. Business Problem
> 9. American lottery  
> Your Problem Solve in 24 hour’s with Guarantee  
> Contact me  
> May be 1 call change your Life?  
> 24 hrs help line  
> 00923026465908  
> mail me at; peerzadahuralishah@DELETED

I think this guy is some sort of e-mail psychic/fortune teller. So remember, if you have any Damn effects, contact this guy.

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-spam-i-got-today/362491/2 "2006-06-28T14:55:04Z")

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Heh. Nothing like flim-flammers and snake oil merchants for entertainment. How can you risk opening those things, though? I just delete them on sight.

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-spam-i-got-today/362491/3 "2006-06-28T15:06:14Z")

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Well, I’m a computer dude, I have all the spam (about 100 messages a day) in our office sent to my account, it winds up in a Junk box in my Eudora e-mail program. I scan through all those messages each day for good e-mail, I find 1 or 2 a week maybe. I have Eudora set to disable HTML, which should keep anything from executing just from viewing a message. I can see if e-mails have attachments before I view them. Additionally, I run an anti-virus program just in case I click on something bad.

I also have our mail server filter out e-mails with “bad” attachment types like .EXE, .BAT, or .PIF, so they never get to anyone.

The main program that was dangerous just viewing e-mail was Microsoft Outlook, which I ASSUME has been fixed.

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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-spam-i-got-today/362491/4 "2006-06-29T16:13:14Z")

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Ooh, yes, I’d like to sort out all those Damn effects. I’ll sent him all my pennies at once. 🙂

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-spam-i-got-today/362491/5 "2006-06-29T16:21:17Z")

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I also like how Lottery numbers, Thai lottery, and American lottery are 3 separate problems.

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**Author:** ![KP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9adbd/32.png) [@KP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-spam-i-got-today/362491/6 "2006-06-29T19:04:48Z")

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Funny, I’ve always considered a “love marriage” a good thing, yet he lists it as his #1 problem. Must be a cultural thing.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-spam-i-got-today/362491/7 "2006-06-29T19:14:50Z")

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> [@control-z](#):
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> The main program that was dangerous just viewing e-mail was Microsoft Outlook, which I ASSUME has been fixed.

Heh. Yeah. Sure.