The reason spammers will never go away

LVgeogeek · March 16, 2004, 9:56pm

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB107930537384354969-IhjgINplaR3n5ypaX2HcKqDm4,00.html

Personally I despise, well loathe actually, having to go through and delete more than 200 pieces of spam junk emails a day, but this guy like spam and actually buys stuff from it so they [spammers] keep sending it out :mad: …

This guy lives in Manhattan, only makes 40K a year and spends hundreds of dollars a week buying spam crap online

World_Eater · March 16, 2004, 10:03pm

Well then, hopefully it will end when he’s dead.

Alto · March 16, 2004, 10:13pm

If he actually buys spam products, I wonder how big his penis is by now? I would say at least 90 percent of my spam concerns that issue (and I’m a girl).

Gatopescado · March 16, 2004, 11:51pm

I saw this article and was dumbfounded! First, why is this in the WSJ? And second, why is this nutjob buying this crap? He’s ruining it for everybody!

My brother-in-law’s wife’s parents were the prototype for this guy. When they died, we tooks TRUCKLOADS of worthless crap to the dump. These people ordered everything that was advertised on the TV or in the newpaper! I’ve never seen so much worthless junk. Sad thing was, they had nothing better to do with thier time/money.

LVgeogeek · March 17, 2004, 12:12am

I figure with all the crap he buys from spammers then he would have the lowest interest rate mortage, the largest penis, his wife would have the biggest boobs, he would have become an overnight millionare from buying real estate, have multiple associates degrees from those online schools, perfect skin and have lost tons of weight from miricle pills etc…

norinew · March 17, 2004, 12:54am

Ya think??? :eek:

World_Eater · March 17, 2004, 1:23am

And huts filled with cash in Nigeria.

DeadlyAccurate · March 17, 2004, 3:53am

This is geeky, but my first thought on reading the OP was, “My god, his hard drive must look like shit.” All I kept thinking of was what AdAware, Spybot and AVG Anti-Virus would pick up from his machine.

iampunha · March 17, 2004, 5:19am

Not just ANY schools. Prestigious Non-Accredited Universities grlshj;wrgk

Netbrian · March 17, 2004, 6:51am

Actually, I was reading about this on Slashdot, and apparently the person in question makes money by selling spam software. So you might want to take what he says with a grain of salt. Especially when he says “All those aphrodisiacs I bought really worked! Not to mention the breast enlargement pills.”

Boo_Boo_Foo · March 17, 2004, 8:06am

Speaking of spam, without doubt, the most assholish spam company on the planet is a company called www.alternativemails.com - and what these guys do is amazingly ingenious. They keep registering new dot coms each week and keep sending out the same robotic emails to your email account - even if you specifically requested to be deleted. Their thinking? Oh, I guess they’re thinking no one will ever trace that all the dot coms are owned by the same LLC.

To give you an idea of the amazing breadth and range of dot com subsidiaries these assholes have registered, I’ve created a running “Delete it” Mail Rule in my email software. After a while the emails all look familiar and you can recognise the commonality. Look at the list of dot coms you have to deal with…