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02/03/2007 09:00:08 AM · #1 |
.. morons ..
"From: bill
To: ade@yahoo.com
Subject: Artwork Order!!!!!
Hello,
my name is TONT BILL, i will like to order for a piece of your
art work from your gallery as gift for my parent who are
celebrating thier 30th wedding annivasarys , so i will be gald to
have your reply asap, i will be glad if you can send me your website
address to chooseor send me four of your product that is availble for me to
choose . payment will be make by a chashier cheque.
Waiting to read from you today.
thanks
Tony
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02/03/2007 09:34:35 AM · #2 |
| Who knows, maybe english isn't his first language. *shrug* |
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02/03/2007 09:38:33 AM · #3 |
I'd quickly start a DPCPrints site and let him order from there that way your safe.
Good luck with it.
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02/03/2007 11:22:19 AM · #4 |
even so - i'd think he'd at least be able to spell his own name correctly... ;}
i'd reply to him just for fun.
check out //www.somethingawful.com/pranksemail/ for some funny covert anti-spam efforts.
here is my smaple reply to him ;}
i churly enjoied you that my imags are nice TONT BILL. supper that yur fulks are so old. i wuld luv fer yo to perchese some arts frum me. pees sund chuck fro $1000 US dollars to adriess below and my arts wull be yers too.
surly,
ade@yahoo
Message edited by author 2007-02-03 11:23:00.
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02/03/2007 11:33:37 AM · #5 |
i'm of the don't feed the spammer camp .. by replying it only verifies you've read their email & you can be resold ..
one of the obvious reasons this is an obvious spam
I am not ade@yahoo
never have been ...
i get plenty of other crud (100+ a day) but this was a first
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02/03/2007 11:53:13 AM · #6 |
the key is to spam them back to the point they don't want to hear from you anymore...
how did you end up with the email if that's not your address?
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02/03/2007 12:11:51 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by soup:
the key is to spam them back to the point they don't want to hear from you anymore...
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thus clogging up the system with even more crap & potentially being labeled a spammer myself .. no thankyou
Originally posted by soup:
how did you end up with the email if that's not your address? |
thats just mail header munging .. kind of like the come-on for stock spam , the illusion that you are privy to 'inside info' addressed to someone else ..
lots of suckers that fall for this crap ...
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02/03/2007 04:38:31 PM · #8 |
well geez 3 in 4 emails are spam - taking a proactive approach isn't gonna do any harm...
my domain recently got spoofed. i was getting like 200 returned emails a day. i called my host who pretty much said that 'yes, it is a federal crime. but there is nothing we can do, the government can do, and very little you can do. what i can do is turn off the catch all filter for your mail server so you don't SEE the spoofing...'
until there us some kind of system to stop the abuse of bandwidth i don't see the harm in a little prankish fun...
to each his own.
i did do some reading about a microsoft effort at validating emails to the originator but there doesn't seem to be too many hosts ready to start using the protocol ( it's still in beta )
//www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/technologies/senderid/default.mspx
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