I’m kind of lucky, I guess. For a long time I didn’t get any spam at all. Now that I do, it isn’t hard to dump it. The ISP I use issues adresses based on the user ID number (telephone number, actually) and then you set your own alias. Anything addressed to the alias is valid, and I’ve got a bunch of filters to sort my mail into different folders for the few people and companies I deal with via email. If the filters can’t find anyplace to put it, then it gets checked for the alias. If it ain’t there, in the shitcan it goes. No sweat.
I got a particularly sneaky spam the other day. The subject was “Re: Your job application”
I’m not sending out any apps and even if I did, I wouldn’t use my generic hotmail account for that. But I can imagine there are lots and lots of folks out there who are waiting for responses in a job search. How pissed must they be when they open such an email only to find a sales pitch!!
The account provided by my ISP has been drawing several emails lately with .exe files attached. I’m thinking I should forward these to the ISP and let them deal with 'em. No, I don’t run the files.
The yahoo email I’ve used for 9 years is so spammed out that I’m in the process of moving to another email account. I get several hundred spams a week; about 80% of them are knocked out by spam guard and the filters I’ve set up, but it’s still a huge pain.
One of my filters takes out email with “mortgage” in the title. Recently I’ve been barraged with email concerning my “morgage”. Like I’m going to refinance with a company who can’t even spell what they sell.
My ISP filters spam, even the ones with random characters inserted into key words. For the ones that manage to still get through I zap them with Mailwasher. MW lets you bounce spams back to the offender in hopes that your email address will be thought of as invalid. I don’t know how effective it is or how many bounces actually get back to the sender since spammers are notorious for forging and spoofing email addies. Still, it’s satisfying just to be able to kill the spam before I actually download it.
Lynn,
Just wait 'til the first letter comes in with “SM BD” in the title. You’ll open it; I’m sure it’ll be a punishing experience 
AmbushBug
[sup]Banned[/sup]
LYNN BODONI_INCREASE YOUR PENIS SIZE!!!
he heh
I just got 62 spams in my yahoo mail. I am not going to even check it anymore, I’ve got another e address.
I keep getting emails promising to encrease both my bust size and my penis.
At the same time.
Stop taking emails and start insisting that Dopers send you snail mail. And insist that they include at least $20 with each request.
For some reason a lot of my recent spams have been refering to me as either “Cookies” or “Kramer”. Like “Cookies, make money on eBay!!! htofhuygseruis” or “Kramer, Size really duz matter!!! tedsaiuchmnd”.
WWEMD?*
Esprix
[sub]What Would Ed McMahon Do?[/sub]
Transvestites are a huge market these days. These people have found their niche pparently!
Now THERE’S an idea, but I’d have to get a PO box. No WAY I’m letting y’all know where I live!
I actually had to get a new email account because my hotmail was so bogged down with spam, I couldn’t wade through it anymore. There’d be at least 50 new emails every few hours, I kid you not.
Now, whenever I sign up for anything, I give them my hotmail address, so that the spammers attack that one. I never use my legit address for anything and for the past year and a half, it’s been spam free, except for Columbia House which my b/f’s sister gave my email address to. I had to seriously restrain myself from kicking her ass when I discovered she did that… :mad:
Lynn, did you get my e-mail about opening a thread? If not, I’ll re-send the contents.
Scott Adams (the Dilbert cartoonist) recently suggested an entertaining approach to spam …
The ones that bug me are the ones that have “Re:” in the titles, so that they look like they’re replying to something I sent. I’m on AOL, so I’m always afraid that if I send those of to TOS they’ll say “Well, you obviously wrote to them first.” (AOL not being staffed with the world’s brightest folks.) But the worst is when they come addressed to my email and the sender’s email address is MY EMAIL ADDRESS! How do they do that??
Hell, I got one the other day suggesting I use mine “to win at snooker”. I got the stroke down, except I’m now stuck wondering whether to go for the pink or the brown.
I got one a week ago from a spammer using my sister’s name, both first and last. The message body was “I’ve decided on a career as a stripper. Take a look and let me know if I have what it takes.”
My sister is a 45 year old housewife so this was a bit of a shock to me. :eek:
All the best.
Testy
I got a spam entitled “Direct E-Mail Marketing Guide” advertising spam. I get a lot of those. Cheeky bastards.
The spam offering to make prank phone calls for me or telling me how great cannabis is (without trying to sell anything, even) is at least a change from natural breast enlargement.
Yeah, I get those, too. Then again, I don’t usually send out many emails with the subject line “Your Request” (especially when they are the ones providing the service), so I sniff them out pretty quickly 