# Just exactly how much scummier can spammers get? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 16, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543 "2003-08-16T05:18:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrSarcasticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@MrSarcasticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSarcasticus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/1 "2003-08-16T05:18:17Z")
Got this fun little link today with the subject line: AMBER ALERT: NICOLE BENET: [http://dailyoffers.e-listdirect.com/e-mail.php?i=29939179&m=545](http://dailyoffers.e-listdirect.com/e-mail.php?i=29939179&m=545) Detroit has no power and this poor girl is missing from Detroit, they say. So this makes it doubly hard. You’d better forward this to all your friends. They don’t provide a picture of the poor abductee, but you can enter your email address and three of your friends’ email addresses so you can give them the word. It’s confirmed. There is no depth to which these spamming scum email harvesters will not stoop. You know, just because the Nazis castrated people doesn’t mean it’s universally non-applicable. ---
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/2 "2003-08-16T05:26:21Z")
OOOKK I don’t get it. Call me clueless and fill me in please. 😕☹ ---
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/3 "2003-08-16T05:28:54Z")
Oh HELL NM I figured it out :smack: I guess they aren’t getting enough responses to their shitmail. Oh sorry… thats AKA Spam. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/4 "2003-08-16T05:29:25Z")
BBC’s website is notorious for spelling mistakes and gramatical errors. In titles ---
**Author:** ![SkyBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/5 "2003-08-16T05:44:56Z")
Take a wrong turn there, _Lobsang_? ---
**Author:** ![Toddly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@Toddly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toddly)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/6 "2003-08-16T06:04:38Z")
But it’s a community service for Christsake. Ride Marketing LLC is waiting for your addresses. They are low but if successful there will be copycats. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/7 "2003-08-16T06:06:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SkyBum \* > \*\*Take a wrong turn there, _Lobsang_? \*\* Just do a search on my name (press search). I am in fact, very very bored. (and a little curius as to what will happen) ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/8 "2003-08-16T08:09:39Z")
The information you asked for, ScocUtl28XX9n2ly! Spammers can get 97% scummier using SCUMCO SPAM SCUMMER 9000, the new miracle product from SCUMCO! Make your scum huge, get out of debt, earn MILLION$ $urfing the interweb, meet HOT COLLEGE SLUTS, help get stolen money out of Nigeria and clean your septic tank all at the same time! FREE XXX VIAGRA SCUMBLASTER IF YOU CLICK ON THE MOVING TARGET! To never see this post again, just click on the link below for INSTANT SCUM RELIEF!!!@!!1!!@!! I shall dispense with accuracy (and hopefully retain my posting privileges) by not reposting this 54 times in half the threads in each forum. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/9 "2003-08-16T13:49:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\*Just do a search on my name (press search). > > I am in fact, very very bored. > (and a little curius as to what will happen) \*\* Dude, what the fuck are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/10 "2003-08-16T13:54:23Z")
Lobsang posted in a thread about BBC mispellings. This poster made a complaint about spamming, so I assume he spammed the post again in some attempt to be funny. Yeah, being bored justifies posting nonsensical replies that are vaguely related to the subject matter. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/11 "2003-08-16T14:00:31Z")
[Vikings] Spam spam spam spam… [/Vikings] ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/12 "2003-08-16T14:05:36Z")
**Neurotic** did you do what I asked? I posted in a pit thread about the misspelling of the capital of Canada. Hours later I went to the ctrl-v thread in MPSIMS and did a ctrl-v. The pit post came out. Hours later I went back to the ctrl-v thread and was annoyed to find that the data in my clipboard hadn’t changed. I did this many times over the course of my night-shift. Towards the end I was so tired and bored that I let the spontenaety in me loose and ctrl-v’d in random threads. It is rare that I behave like a dickhead here, but it does happen on occasion. ---
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/13 "2003-08-16T15:32:30Z")
[hijack]\*\* LOL We are all allowed a bit of dickheadedness sometimes. Feel free to do this frequently. At least your a semi funny dickhead [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/14 "2003-08-16T16:49:42Z")
I had both threads up at the same time. Hitting Lobsang’s dual response woke me right up! Boy, I am easily amused! ---
**Author:** ![SkyBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/15 "2003-08-16T19:51:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SkyBum \* > \*\*Take a wrong turn there, _Lobsang_? \*\* The only reason I mentioned it was because the thread immediately above this one was “Why can’t people spell?” ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/16 "2003-08-16T23:30:27Z")
Ah, makes sense **SkyBum**. suggests that I went to far down with the mouse. Like the name btw. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/17 "2003-08-16T23:47:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\*Ah, makes sense **SkyBum**. suggests that I went to far down with the mouse. > Like the name btw. \*\* **Lobsang** ’s going down with mice now? :eek: Well, I guess that proves the fundies’ allegations that is we outlawed sodomy, bestiality would be next! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/18 "2003-08-16T23:52:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\* It is rare that I behave like a dickhead here, but it does happen on occasion. \*\* Exactly one more time, for the record. We got enough work that we don’t need people making it for us. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/19 "2003-08-17T00:11:50Z")
ok **manhattan** my dingle is back where it belongs, and it’s gonna stay there. (not on my head) P.S. If you don’t mind me asking - _did_ I make any work for you? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543/20 "2003-08-17T00:32:06Z")
To answer the OP, they _could_ get scummier by, when you open the spam entitled “AMBER ALERT”, it opens up a link to kiddie porn. Not saying that’s ever happened, but it _would_ be worse… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-exactly-how-much-scummier-can-spammers-get/195543.md?page=2)