Yeah, I regretted the snarky tone as soon as I hit “submit.” Sorry.
Still, I keep hearing people endlessly wailing about all the spam they get (lord, you should see the messages on my ISP’s message board!). But even when you tell them how to stay off the spammers’ lists, they just keep making the same mistakes. It gets a little frustrating. (People who have business email addresses get a pass - there’s just no way to keep those even semi-private.)
I’ve had one email account for over 5 years, and it gets no more than 3 or 4 spam messages per week. I haven’t been hyper-vigilant about protecting it - I’ve just stopped to think before I typed it into some website. I have a Hotmail account that I use whenever I think that my “real” email address might be in danger, but even that account only gets 1 or 2 spam messages a day. My new “real” email address (from the switch to broadband) has never gotten a spam message (knock on wooden head).
Some spam is inevitable - the spammers just try every combination of letters and numbers, followed by “@aol.com,” for example, so they’re going to get to you sooner or later. But let’s not make it easy for them!
By the way, just to illustrate the kind of situation that should be a red flag: this “humanforsale” website demands that you give it your email address. Why? Well, so they can send you your results, right? But why don’t they just show you your results? (Kramer as the moviephone guy: “Why don’t you just tell me what movie you want to see?”)
Why do they have to email it to you? This should make you instantly suspicious. Time to use your “throwaway” email address, the freebie from Hotmail or Yahoo that you can just ditch if it gets swamped by spam.
Remember, if the spammers get our addresses, the terrorists have already won!
Yeah, you know anyone who puts less than 9 inches for his penis size is going to get a ton of “enlarge your penis” spam emails.
Glad I use sneakemail They have an option similar to mailinator and spamhole (but sneakemail works here.) But you can choose to KEEP the email address. Sneakemail forwards the email to your real email address too. What’s cool is you can keep track of which sites are selling addresses. If your address gets on the spam lists, just delete it.
$2,059,540.00 BTW. I’m RICH and I didn’t even know it!
BTW, I’ll keep track of them to see if I get any spam. If I do after a few weeks I’ll repost that they are harvesting, or if they are not harvesting. Though I have no doubt that they are.
Nope. These boys are no amateurs! They’re apparently well-aware of all the spam-shielding services out there. It looks like the only way is to create a Hotmail account, use it for this, then abandon it.
Ah, wait! It took a few minutes, but the spamgourmet shield worked, so the “humanforsale” folks aren’t tuned in to all of the shielding techniques! So, I’m worth about $2.3 million. Do I hear any offers?
