OT -- King of SPAM
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- Tell us something.: I used to play pipes about 20 years ago and suddenly abducted by aliens.
Not sure why... but it's 2022 and I'm mysteriously baack... - Location: Surlyville
How creative the mind can be...
I got this message this morning from:
"Abdul Ahammed" <a.ahammed@caramail.com>
First let me use this medium to introduce
myself, I am Abdul Ahammed
from KONO district north of Baghdad IRAQ
from the family of late Alhaji
Mustafa MARGAI A MEMBER OF PETROLEUM AND
NATURAL GAS.
MY late father Alhaji Mustafa Ahammed before
his death he hold a very sensitive position
in government in IRAQ
,My father has a bullet shot
by the the American soldiers on his way to
JORDAN,THE NEGHBOURING COUNTRY OF IRAQ, He
was later conveyed to a government
hospital in JORDAN BORDER at the camp for a
medical treatment where in he later died, in
the hospital bed my father reveal and confide
in me about one metallic box (consignment)
deposit that he made with a trust and
finance house in Europe. Containing
($38,000,000.00) THIRTY EIGHT MILLION
UNITED STATES DOLLARS.
Nobody in the trust and finance house knows
the real content of the metal box because
my father wisely declared them as art work
and family treasures from the national museum
of monument.
since the death of my father the rebel has
held us hostage until yesterday,
I am presently in the refugee camp now
seeking for your help and assistance for you
to come to my aid I proposed that you stand
as my proxy person that is my late fathers
foreign partner, so as to get the
metal box out of the trust and finance
house, transfer it to your
country where we can make use of it in a
lucrative business investment in your
country.
This transaction is now only known by you,
myself and my old sick
mother whom is now in with me in the camp
waiting for the time I get this fund out of
the trust house, the secrecy and
confidentiality should be maintained for
the successful transfer of this fund. I
will be handing over to you the original
certificate of deposit which
the finance house gave to my father, these
fund was deposited with a
secrete code that means it will be more
easy for you to retrieve the
fund and I withhold the secrete code for
security reasons as you show
interest the secrete code and the
certificates of deposit will be given to
you after solid arrangement with both of us
then you can now proceed to the finance
house in Europe to retrieve the consignment
for investment in your country.
please send me your private telephone and
fax number for more confidential
discussions as I do not have any phone now
that you could call me but I can secretly call
you from a confidential phone booth .
Best Regards
Abdul Ahammed
I didn't realize they had internet in refugee camps!!!!!
I got this message this morning from:
"Abdul Ahammed" <a.ahammed@caramail.com>
First let me use this medium to introduce
myself, I am Abdul Ahammed
from KONO district north of Baghdad IRAQ
from the family of late Alhaji
Mustafa MARGAI A MEMBER OF PETROLEUM AND
NATURAL GAS.
MY late father Alhaji Mustafa Ahammed before
his death he hold a very sensitive position
in government in IRAQ
,My father has a bullet shot
by the the American soldiers on his way to
JORDAN,THE NEGHBOURING COUNTRY OF IRAQ, He
was later conveyed to a government
hospital in JORDAN BORDER at the camp for a
medical treatment where in he later died, in
the hospital bed my father reveal and confide
in me about one metallic box (consignment)
deposit that he made with a trust and
finance house in Europe. Containing
($38,000,000.00) THIRTY EIGHT MILLION
UNITED STATES DOLLARS.
Nobody in the trust and finance house knows
the real content of the metal box because
my father wisely declared them as art work
and family treasures from the national museum
of monument.
since the death of my father the rebel has
held us hostage until yesterday,
I am presently in the refugee camp now
seeking for your help and assistance for you
to come to my aid I proposed that you stand
as my proxy person that is my late fathers
foreign partner, so as to get the
metal box out of the trust and finance
house, transfer it to your
country where we can make use of it in a
lucrative business investment in your
country.
This transaction is now only known by you,
myself and my old sick
mother whom is now in with me in the camp
waiting for the time I get this fund out of
the trust house, the secrecy and
confidentiality should be maintained for
the successful transfer of this fund. I
will be handing over to you the original
certificate of deposit which
the finance house gave to my father, these
fund was deposited with a
secrete code that means it will be more
easy for you to retrieve the
fund and I withhold the secrete code for
security reasons as you show
interest the secrete code and the
certificates of deposit will be given to
you after solid arrangement with both of us
then you can now proceed to the finance
house in Europe to retrieve the consignment
for investment in your country.
please send me your private telephone and
fax number for more confidential
discussions as I do not have any phone now
that you could call me but I can secretly call
you from a confidential phone booth .
Best Regards
Abdul Ahammed
I didn't realize they had internet in refugee camps!!!!!
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- Dale
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WHoooo!!! I love Russian lesbians without credit cards!Cranberry wrote:I like spam. It makes me laugh.
I get the same email all the time: 'Re: Your Amazon.com order' and when you open it, 'HOT RUSSIAN LESBIANS WITHOUT A CREDIT CARD, RIGHT NOW!' I kid you not. It comes from about 40 different addresses, too. LOL.
- Dale
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Because I have three or four websites, among other reasons, my flow of spam is remarkable. I have finally gotten it under decent control. Here's how:
1. My ISP filters out a lot via Brightmail. I never see those. That probably eliminates more of my spam than anything else.
2. I changed my primary email address several months ago and have been much more careful about throwing it around. I use spamgourmet.com to create temporary self-destructing email addresses. Whenever I have to do something on line that requires an email address, I give 'em a self-destructing email address via http://www.spamgourmet.com. Works well. For example, do you know that little weather-monitoring App called "weatherbug?" When I downloaded it, I gave a self-destructing email address. Since it "expired" spamgourmet has eaten 377 email messages sent to that address, which existed only long enough for me to submit it to the Weatherbug people.
3. I subscribe to http://www.riskfreemail.com. It costs a few dollars a month, and is not 100% effective, but I'm finding it worthwhile. I won't get into how it works, but the bottom line is that you run your email through it and if it sees an email of ANY kind it doesn't recognize, it requires the sender to verify that the message is being sent by a live person. Then, the system recognizes that sender's email address from then on.
4. Instead of Outlook, or whatever, I use an email client called Courier (formerly Calypso) (rosecitysoftware.com). It is the best email program I've ever used and it has excellent spam filters built in.
With all of this, I still get 5-10 SPAM per day. But, I'd probably get hundreds without these measures.
Dale
1. My ISP filters out a lot via Brightmail. I never see those. That probably eliminates more of my spam than anything else.
2. I changed my primary email address several months ago and have been much more careful about throwing it around. I use spamgourmet.com to create temporary self-destructing email addresses. Whenever I have to do something on line that requires an email address, I give 'em a self-destructing email address via http://www.spamgourmet.com. Works well. For example, do you know that little weather-monitoring App called "weatherbug?" When I downloaded it, I gave a self-destructing email address. Since it "expired" spamgourmet has eaten 377 email messages sent to that address, which existed only long enough for me to submit it to the Weatherbug people.
3. I subscribe to http://www.riskfreemail.com. It costs a few dollars a month, and is not 100% effective, but I'm finding it worthwhile. I won't get into how it works, but the bottom line is that you run your email through it and if it sees an email of ANY kind it doesn't recognize, it requires the sender to verify that the message is being sent by a live person. Then, the system recognizes that sender's email address from then on.
4. Instead of Outlook, or whatever, I use an email client called Courier (formerly Calypso) (rosecitysoftware.com). It is the best email program I've ever used and it has excellent spam filters built in.
With all of this, I still get 5-10 SPAM per day. But, I'd probably get hundreds without these measures.
Dale
I recently installed Mailwasher, a free download that helps to identify Spam and bounce it off the server before you download your e-mails. It helps an it's free.
www.mailwasher.net
www.mailwasher.net
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- Tell us something.: I used to play pipes about 20 years ago and suddenly abducted by aliens.
Not sure why... but it's 2022 and I'm mysteriously baack... - Location: Surlyville
Peter, I tried Mailwasher about 3-4 months ago and it would crash (old system running Windows 98) more times than not. There were other issues including setup (it wouldn't accept the default return address) and many of the messages came with a forged 'from' so bouncing wouldn't work.
I haven't used it lately, but I might try it again on my newer computer running Windows XP.
I haven't used it lately, but I might try it again on my newer computer running Windows XP.
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I use McAfee SpamKiller and am mostly satisfied. It's user-configurable, and I've finally got to where it gets almost everything, but the spammersnakes are imaginative if not ethical. Even when you block on specific words, a few of the creeps manage to slime by despite the presence of the filtered words. I assume it's some kind encapsulation trick, but I'm not going to waste time trying to figure it out as long as the Delete button works.
A while back, someone asked why people are so much angrier about spam than about junk snail mail. IMO, it's simple. Junk snail mail is self limiting because the jerks that send it have to pay bulk postage of a few cents per item. Spammers work in an almost cost-free environment and can thus afford to be more profligate in their pigeon-like assaults on our screens.
A while back, someone asked why people are so much angrier about spam than about junk snail mail. IMO, it's simple. Junk snail mail is self limiting because the jerks that send it have to pay bulk postage of a few cents per item. Spammers work in an almost cost-free environment and can thus afford to be more profligate in their pigeon-like assaults on our screens.
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Tony..nice work keeping a low profile on the numbers (left-only the few elite would probably care to notice). I'll send you your official online, internet, congratulation card-spam email today...take warning!Tony wrote:How creative the mind can be...I didn't realize they had internet in refugee camps!!!!!
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Tony,Peter Laban wrote:I recently installed Mailwasher, a free download that helps to identify Spam and bounce it off the server before you download your e-mails. It helps an it's free.
www.mailwasher.net
I have been using mailwasher for several months now with no problems on a Win98 pc. Did you try uninstalling it and then reinstalling?
Mike
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- Tell us something.: I play whistles. I sell whistles. This seems just a BIT excessive to the cause. A sentence or two is WAY less than 100 characters.
And what about those little spamlettes we seem sooo bent on volluntarily imposing on each other.
You know the ones.....
Send this to 15 of your closest friends and you will get a cute little message
or
Send this to 15 of your closest friends and you will get your bestest wish. If you don't you will have bad luck for about a million years.
or
If you send this to 15 of your closest friends you will instantly become Bill Gates' bestest buddy and he will send you the secret code to his bank account.
My mom must hate me because no matter HOW many times I tell you they are spam she still keeps sending them to me!
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I use Yahoo mail. They must have a pretty good filter as I only get a dozen or so that get through each week. I report those and I rarely see them ever again.
You know the ones.....
Send this to 15 of your closest friends and you will get a cute little message
or
Send this to 15 of your closest friends and you will get your bestest wish. If you don't you will have bad luck for about a million years.
or
If you send this to 15 of your closest friends you will instantly become Bill Gates' bestest buddy and he will send you the secret code to his bank account.
My mom must hate me because no matter HOW many times I tell you they are spam she still keeps sending them to me!
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I use Yahoo mail. They must have a pretty good filter as I only get a dozen or so that get through each week. I report those and I rarely see them ever again.
Steven - IDAwHOa - Wood Rocks
"If you keep asking questions.... You keep getting answers." - Miss Frizzle - The Magic School Bus
"If you keep asking questions.... You keep getting answers." - Miss Frizzle - The Magic School Bus