Spam the spammers

Harpie · 20-03-2009 5:30pm #1

Checked my hotmail account for the first time in a long while yesterday, and to my delight I found over 1300 mails just for ME! The enticing promises of cheap horse tranquillisers, the delicious business deals! I felt so special:D

So, a bit bored I decided to respond to a particularly nice mail about 'big business opportunity' in Senegal, stating my astounding business experience and telling them I just couldn't refuse their offer. I got a mail back and they would love to enter into business with someone with such high standing in the 'Arse Biscuit Idustry' :P The documents are pending in their next mail :rolleyes:Anyone else ever get bored enough to tag along teh spammers?

biko · 20-03-2009 5:34pm

Check out 419eater

hobochris · 20-03-2009 5:34pm

I usually just set a rule for them, especially those Chinese sites. if they email my about their site they get it forwarded back to them 100 times.

has worked so far, never had more then one email from the same Chinese site.

Ass · 20-03-2009 5:34pm

You're aware that most spam are sent by computer scripts, right? You're responding to a computer if you respond to most of the spam you get. If you want to waste your time though, nobody is stopping you.

Harpie · 20-03-2009 5:36pm

Ass wrote: »

You're aware that most spam are sent by computer scripts, right? You're responding to a computer if you respond to most of the spam you get. If you want to waste your time though, nobody is stopping you.

Passes the time in work better than talkin to Microsoft Sam I guess:o

speedboatchase · 20-03-2009 5:39pm

iGod is the ultimate timewaster

ART6 · 20-03-2009 5:50pm

hobochris wrote: »

I usually just set a rule for them, especially those Chinese sites. if they email my about their site they get it forwarded back to them 100 times.

has worked so far, never had more then one email from the same Chinese site.

By responding to spam you are simply confirming that your email address is live. Most spams result from those (mainly USA I believe) companies that offer millions of email addresses for a fee, but they can't know if all of them are current. By responding you confirm that yours is.

Rented Mule · 22-03-2009 12:55am

ART6 wrote: »

By responding to spam you are simply confirming that your email address is live. Most spams result from those (mainly USA I believe) companies that offer millions of email addresses for a fee, but they can't know if all of them are current. By responding you confirm that yours is.

The majority of spam comes from the USA, China and Russia at the moment.

Overflow · 22-03-2009 1:16am

speedboatchase wrote: »

iGod is the ultimate timewaster

Haha i just broke iGod, confused the crap out of it and then it stopped answering

ART6 · 22-03-2009 11:55am

Rented Mule wrote: »

The majority of spam comes from the USA, China and Russia at the moment.

I read somewhere some time ago that one of the software houses -- might have been Microsoft but I can't remember -- wanted to create an application that, when spam was received, caused the affected computer to send back a large series of random numbers. The idea I think was that since spammers send out a million or so spams at a time, they would get back so many random number responses that it would overwhelm both them and their ISPs and effectively shut them down. The idea was dropped when it was pointed out to them that it infringed the spammer's human rights:eek:

giggsy664 · 22-03-2009 11:59am

Harpie wrote: »

Checked my hotmail account for the first time in a long while yesterday, and to my delight I found over 1300 mails just for ME! The enticing promises of cheap horse tranquillisers, the delicious business deals! I felt so special:D

So, a bit bored I decided to respond to a particularly nice mail about 'big business opportunity' in Senegal, stating my astounding business experience and telling them I just couldn't refuse their offer. I got a mail back and they would love to enter into business with someone with such high standing in the 'Arse Biscuit Idustry' :P The documents are pending in their next mail :rolleyes:Anyone else ever get bored enough to tag along teh spammers?

Pfftt... 2000 unread emails for me.

Most of them are boards. And I have it set to email me every week!!!

Flukey · 22-03-2009 1:59pm

For some reason I recently started receiving spam from the a particular shopping chain. For the hell of it, I sent them an e-mail asking them to stop. I got this reply:

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for your email.

Can you please supply your full name and full postal address together with your date of birth, once we have received your e-mail, we will then be in position to assist you further.

Please attach the information below when you reply.

I am sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Regards

Grace D'mello
Internet Correspondence Department

I replied:

Sure, no problem:

Me,
A House,
A Road,
A Town,
A Country.

You forgot to ask for my bank account details. You guys are slipping up. Here they are anyway:

Bank of Saturn,
Titan,
The solar system.
Account Number: X999 999 999
Sort Code: 99 - 99 - 99.

They replied:

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for your e-mail.

In order for us to remove your e-mail address from our database, we require you to confirm some security details.

The information we need is your full name, full postal address, and date of birth. Without this information we will not be able to locate your details to take them off our database.

I am sorry for any inconvenience caused and if you have any further queries please contact us at customer services on 0844 844 8333 and we will be able to assist you further.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Regards

Farhad Amod
Internet Correspondence

I replied:

You already were given my full address:

Me,
A House,
A Road,
A Town.
A Country

I neglected to give you my date of birth. It is the 658th of February, 3095.

After that I got an e-mail saying they were removing me from their list. However, I did receive another from them since then, so I'll have to come up with a nice reply.

giggsy664 · 25-03-2009 12:07am

Anything yet Flukey?

useful_contacts · 25-03-2009 12:14am

Overflow wrote: »

Haha i just broke iGod, confused the crap out of it and then it stopped answering

i god wont work for me do i have to install some player or something?

its like this

Me :

God:

Cant see what we are saying

ANNOYING:mad:

PS- sorry for thread spoiling:(

Mc Love · 25-03-2009 1:33am

Overflow wrote: »

Haha i just broke iGod, confused the crap out of it and then it stopped answering

Haha very easy so it is!

Type: Bye and it breaks

25-03-2009 9:44am

That's why I love gmail. Never bothered by spam whatsoever and those that somehow manage to sneak through just get filtered out.

Blazer · 25-03-2009 10:53am

on gmail?
Jesus..it';s the worse every I've found for spam...I say I get about 500 a week at least.
My other email accounts get nothing whatsoever.

Spam the spammers

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