# Shirley Ujest is spamming me. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 25, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357 "2010-08-25T02:13:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/1 "2010-08-25T02:13:40Z")
I don’t know if it’s happening to other dopers she knows, but about once a month I get a spam e-mail from Shirley. It’s no subject and a link to some random website. Shirley, change the password on your e-mail accounts, and do some virus checking on your computer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/2 "2010-08-25T05:05:01Z")
It’s probably not from her. It’s a fairly common tactic to use random e-mail addresses as the “sender” on spam. Back when I controlled my own e-mail servers, I would occasionally look through the stuff the spam filters were tossing: some months 95% of it would be “returned” mail to me that I never sent. The mail server wasn’t compromised (although they tried that a lot, too – getting my mail server to forward their stuff); the bad guys just stuck a false (but valid) e-mail name in the headers manually. There’s no protection built into standard internet SMTP mail to prevent that. If an account was compromised, you’d be getting a LOT more than one a month from it. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/3 "2010-08-25T05:19:28Z")
Surely you jest. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/4 "2010-08-25T05:50:42Z")
Surely, **crazyjoe** , have you heard of PM? Have you tried that? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/5 "2010-08-25T05:52:47Z")
> [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](#): > > Surely, **crazyjoe** , have you heard of PM? Have you tried that? Surely you have forgotten that the OP expressed curiosity in whether or not others are suffering from the same spam. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/6 "2010-08-25T12:33:55Z")
Let me know if you get any from IAMTHECOWGODMOO. ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/7 "2010-08-25T15:35:59Z")
> [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](#): > > Surely, **crazyjoe** , have you heard of PM? Have you tried that? Surely I have corersponded with Shirley and surely enough, she denied that those e-mails were purposely sent from her. But I have seen this happen before, and been victim of it myself, and I thought maybe she could take some protective action to try to keep it from happening more. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/8 "2010-08-25T15:36:43Z")
Maybe it’s not spam, maybe Shirley is genuinely concerned about your penis length. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/9 "2010-08-25T15:44:17Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Maybe it’s not spam, maybe Shirley is genuinely concerned about your penis length. We all are. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/10 "2010-08-25T16:14:34Z")
We had a group discussion about **crazyjoe** ’s size, and decided that someone had to tell him. **Shirley** got the short stick. (ha!) ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/11 "2010-08-25T18:26:03Z")
How do y’all know that her e-mails are concerning the size of my weenie? I sure as hell haven’t clicked on anything she sends, and it really is just links with random characters, and no subject line on the e-mail. OMG You’re ALL IN ON IT, AREN’T YOU? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/12 "2010-08-25T22:36:06Z")
I received a NO SUBJECT e-mail from **Shirley** a few weeks ago. Even though I suspected she wasn’t actually the sender, I took a chance and opened the message, since I had helped her with a project involving her kids a few years ago and thought she might be requesting my assistance anew. However, the result was similar to what the OP describes – just a suspicious-looking random link that I declined to click before deleting the spam. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/13 "2010-08-25T23:31:09Z")
In the past I sometimes received spam E-mail sent by…bum dum duuummmm…ME! That’s right. Somehow I sent spam to myself without realizing it. I must have been sleep typing. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/14 "2010-08-25T23:35:39Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > > [@Wile\_E](#): > > > > Maybe it’s not spam, maybe Shirley is genuinely concerned about your penis length. > > We all are. yes, we all are! ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/15 "2010-08-26T05:34:07Z")
One of us! One of us! (checks) Sure, why not. One of us! One of us! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/16 "2010-08-26T13:02:31Z")
Those are my most common spam, Nobody. Gmail always catches them. Why would anyone think that I would be more likely to open emails from myself? ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/17 "2010-08-26T13:16:15Z")
Got one today from a friend no subject and a strange sounding link in it ([witcherysource.com](http://witcherysource.com)) _Delete_ ---
**Author:** ![smee\_goan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@smee\_goan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smee_goan)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/18 "2010-08-26T13:25:32Z")
## Times are tough, telephone same deal… ## Interesting phone scam: ## off topic btw I bought a car at an online auction a year ago ([www.copart.com](http://www.copart.com)) and I used a “reseller” to finance it, cost? $400.00 deposit, A year later (I never requested deposit back) the reseller calls asking for $95.00 for the upcoming year. I say No, they say check will be in mail, now a week later, guess what? - no check ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/19 "2010-08-26T14:23:22Z")
> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > Got one today from a friend no subject and a strange sounding link in it ([witcherysource.com](http://witcherysource.com)) > > _Delete_ Good grief, man, now they are going to do witchery TO YOUR PENIS! Incidentally, withcerysource was the one I got as well. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357/20 "2010-08-26T18:54:57Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Those are my most common spam, Nobody. Gmail always catches them. Why would anyone think that I would be more likely to open emails from myself? What worried me was that if I was getting spam from “myself”, did that mean other people are were getting spam and thinking it was me? I don’t remember getting any complaints or warnings from my ISP, so hopefully other people didn’t blame me for anything. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirley-ujest-is-spamming-me/551357.md?page=2)