Comments on: Random spam thought

By: bvw

bvw — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:09:08 +0000

Every drop of rain has its destination address. So every spambot seems to have my email address, too.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:16:51 +0000

I love it when you can reply to spam. I send them an eBill. “Please remit $50 to (my address) as a fee for the use of my computer and for my effort to process your unsolicted commercial email. Further use of my computer to process your UCE will result in additional charges.”

I’ve yet to get a check, but it sure has cut down on spam over the years. I also set up a yahoo account that I use to sign up for websites that insist you “register.” It gets over 500 emails a day. I just go in once a month or so and delete everything without reading it. Thanks Yahoo!

Robert

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:24:08 +0000

I just got the “I am dying” spam with the typical misspellings and phony fractured English. The person claimed to have come from Liberia but is living in England, but said he was originally an “Isreali”.

I read of one person who set up an empty bank account in the name of Leslie Charteris and got the spammers to deposit $250 (in real money) as a test that the wire transfer worked before setting up the full “transfer”. In the messages he also used the name Claude Eustace Teal (the Scotland Yard Chief Inspector in the Saint books) as an alternate contact.

By: David Charlap

David Charlap — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:55:48 +0000

I believe the answer is *PLONK*.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:57:50 +0000

No, it was “loan approval.” I just saw it as “koan.”

By: Bert

Bert — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:34:49 +0000

It’s the same sound a Nigerian makes hitting the “k” instead of the “l”.