I’ve been getting a LOT of spam email with titles that could conceivably be related to the SDMB. However, I’ve taken to deleting any email that doesn’t have SDMB referenced in the title and/or an unknown sender. Even if you THINK that I should know your email address, please put SDMB somewhere in the title any message you send me, otherwise it’ll get tossed into the bit bucket, along with the 30 or so others I seem to get at each session. Sorry, but I have neither the time nor the stomach to open that many spams a day, each promising to introduce me to lonely married women in my town or trying to sell me something that will make my penis grow by three inches.
Where’s a cyberzapper when you need one? And yes, I MUST leave my filters open for posters to reach me.
I should contact these companies - I would love to know how they can promise to make my penis larger when I don’t have one!
And while I’m at it- what would someone who lives in downtown LA possibly do with a septic tank?
Oh, and btw… I’m an English speaking female, I really don’t need scads and scads of Korean slut porn filling my inbox (but for that I can apparently thank the Christopher who must have had my email addy before me)
Has anyone else here been attacked by swarms of viruses in the past few days? Friday I must have gotten 10 or 11 within a ten-minute period! Most of them were masquerading as “Returned mail…user unknown” with an attachment. I also get tons of crap in Chinese or some other language that I don’t read :rolleyes: Thank God for Norton Antivirus! I guess SOMEONE must be replying to all that spam promising a larger dick, otherwise the bastards wouldn’t keep sending it out.
Since I have a Hotmail account (my work e-mail has spam filtering so strong it KOs genuine messages, so I have to have a default account), I get all kinds of spam. But a recent one really floored me. It was from a “David Underdown” and was titled, “Greg, your teacher is looking for you…” You can imagine the type of stuff that spam was peddling.
But what floored me was that there is a David Underdown whom I know. He’s a historian–who knows my academic supervisor, who I just spoke to yesterday, and who conceivably could have been trying to contact me. I know it was a freakish coincidence, but a darn compelling one.
Yea, the account I use for this and my gaming stuff gets a barrage of Klez virii attacks every 2 or 3 months. I also get Taiwanese spam promising all kinds of weird shit.
I get the ones that say “LOWER YOUR MORTGAGE AND REDUCE YOUR DEBT SELDKVMEBWPJHLSBAZXSI!”
Like, what’s with all the random letters at the end? Is it like a
Seeing Eye poster where if I stare at it long enough, I’ll find my name? I get these things every day!
I think my favorites, though, are the ones that use some approximation of my name, like “Auderon! This is in reply to your note” or “Audrey Parks you can earn money at home!”
If I recall correctly, the rate of return on “blind” advertisements, like junk mail and “tiny little ads,” is anywhere from 1% to 3%. So if they get a 1% response on the AUDREYLEVINS ENLARGE YOUR PENIS emails, it hasn’t cost them anything and they consider it successful.
I still hate 'em, though. Why aren’t they sent to my junk mail folder? WHY MY INBOX? I hate thinking I have email from real people when it’s just a bunch of crap.
I guess SOMEONE must be replying to all that spam promising a larger dick, otherwise the bastards wouldn’t keep sending it out.