# My classmate just spammed me! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-classmate-just-spammed-me/128562 "2002-09-15T18:04:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-classmate-just-spammed-me/128562/1 "2002-09-15T18:04:39Z")
I just went to check my e-mail and saw in my inbox a whole grouping of the normal junk mail one normally accumulates. Grow a larger penis. Check. Hot popping cherry teens. Check. Low low stock prices. Check. New golf balls. I have absolutely no idea when why and how this one became a popular internet business but check. Then I see one titled “Law outlines,” and part of the e-mail address is from a classmate of mine. Not a friend, barely an acquaintance, but I recognize the name. It’s not my school address though, so I’m thinking it could just be spam. Turns out I was right. It is both from my classmate…and spam. Granted he’s not trying to sell me anything, but rather trying to collect something from me. Here’s his e-mail: > [@](#): > > Hi, I was wondering if I can have some of your outlines for the following > classes: International Business Transactions, Federal Income Taxation and > Commercial Law: Secured Transactions? Followed by his name. That’s exactly how it was, random line returns and everything. It wasn’t even addressed to me. It had no introduction. Nothing to say he had specifically wanted to talk to me and only me about my specific outlines. And the best part? I haven’t taken ANY of the three classes. I couldn’t possibly have any outlines for those classes! So this guy from my school could be randomly e-mailing up to and including our ENTIRE class just to see if some poor sap will give him an outline out of the kindness of his or her heart. Wow. I don’t even know how to respond to this e-mail. But I want to. ---
**Author:** ![Blunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Blunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blunt)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-classmate-just-spammed-me/128562/2 "2002-09-15T22:48:22Z")
Maybe he emailed you accidentaly or something. It happens to me occasionally from my classes. Usually a student is trying to email a professor or TA or maybe a smaller group from a class and instead end up emailing the whole class. The facts that you aren’t in any of the mentioned classes and that the email didn’t come to your school account kind of points away from this theory though. Even if he was basically spamming you, I wouldn’t make a huge deal about it. If it were me, I’d maybe just mention this email to him next time I see him and see what’s up. If I didn’t see him at all it I would probably just let it drop unless he continued to send out these spam emails. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2002, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-classmate-just-spammed-me/128562/3 "2002-09-16T00:26:43Z")
Ha ha! You haven’t received the “Lower Mortgage Rates” spam yet! Even my nine-year-old gets those! ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2002, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-classmate-just-spammed-me/128562/4 "2002-09-16T06:09:57Z")
It could be the klez virus, which can disguise the sender’s identity. Our webmaster account at work gets literally about 500 of the damned things a day. I’d suggest responding to your classmte to see if s/he really did send it, and if not, alert them that it’s going around.