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10/02/2007 01:24:00 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by slickchik:
OK, seriously, why do people even spam...who even clicks on links in spam or buys any products from spam emails? I don't get it. |
You can say the same thing about direct mail, all the flyers that come to your mailbox and so forth. Yet decades of direct mail experience have proven it's a cost-effective way to promote. *I* don't read the stuff, I don't know anybody who admits to reading the stuff, but if it didn't work nobody would do it...
R.
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10/02/2007 01:51:25 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by biteme:
the weirdest thing happened: everything is back to normal again, without even calling for a new IP-address...
verrrrry strange...
thanks everybody for your advice, very very much appreciated!!! |
most likely hotmail had banned a list of IP's from your providers domain, as suggested before, and after they contacted your ISP and their guys cut off the fake/offending accounts and Hotmail verified that the spam had stopped, then they unblocked the IP list that contained your IP.
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10/02/2007 02:48:44 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by slickchik:
OK, seriously, why do people even spam...who even clicks on links in spam or buys any products from spam emails? I don't get it. |
You can say the same thing about direct mail, all the flyers that come to your mailbox and so forth. Yet decades of direct mail experience have proven it's a cost-effective way to promote. *I* don't read the stuff, I don't know anybody who admits to reading the stuff, but if it didn't work nobody would do it...
R. |
Nobody visits porn sites either, but mysteriously they get the most clicks of all sites on the net.... And I have met a couple of people whom mysteriously became millionaire because they run some sites that nobody visits.... I think some serious research needs to be done about how porn sites get all those clicks.....
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10/02/2007 02:56:27 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
.... I think some serious research needs to be done about how porn sites get all those clicks..... |
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10/02/2007 03:39:07 PM · #30 |
Ok, seriously, I REALLY DO NOT open that spam crap...for real...you do believe me, right?!? LOL
Maybe it is because I don't need what they are selling and neither does my husband ;-)
Message edited by author 2007-10-02 15:39:31. |
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10/02/2007 07:55:12 PM · #31 |
It use to be that with spammers, they would spam out millions of e-mails. If they got a 1% return on people buying or biting on what they were selling, they were doing really well. Now, very little about spam is about the spam... it's about the information they get from the people that click on the links and show they have a live e-mail address, or those that actually provide information that can be used for identify thief (it doesn't take much to be able to assume your identify) or if you click on the link and get tagged by a back door zombie worm or some other controlling program, they can suck your computer dry of information and/or use your computer to send out another 10,000 spams under your e-mail addess and IP address.
Getting information on poeople that can be used for illegal acts is the real name of the game any more.
Mike
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