As the title suggests, write a witty letter to your favourite spammer: 1. African scams 2. Increase penis size 3. Breast Enlargement 4. Reduce debt 5. Hot teens 6. Get a college degree :)20 responses total.
What?? And people call my threads a waste of time. i think you need breast enlargement.
I have never received spams in categories 3 and 6, but I do get a lot of inkjet and resume and prescription drug spam. And dates in Australia or Wales.
Heh, I'll bite-- can't resist. I'll kill three birds with one stone: <alter ego mode> Dear hot 'n horny teen sluts, I've been excited about your offers. I got my best boys and girls to increase their penis and breast sizes. They'll fill you up right in your favorite spots-- your hands and you-know-wheres, hehe. So prepare to get funkily pimpified, because I'm gonna spread the news all over the land like hot campfire Spam 'n Cheez Whiz! SPAM SPAM SPAM 'n Cheez Whiz... now you get some, too! Hot, sticky, and meaty! The Great White Mack
Do not spam spammers! Likely as not the spam came via a poorly configured host who had no intention of spamming you and likely as not has no capacity of dealing with the problem. If you are clever enough to decode mail headers enough to know where the spam actually came from you probably already know this and how to handle it. If you spam spammers all you do is create even more useless network traffic thus making things worse for everybody else. Also clever spammers who are spammed now have a valid email address which is further passed on and you will in fact generate more spam for yourself. There are enough clever people that know what they are doing involved in trying to solve this problem that unless you know what you are doing all you will do is make it more difficult for them. Recent estimates are that over 50% of Internet email traffic is spam so you can be assured that this is a hot problem and it will be delt with. Its not going to happen right away so you are gonna have to put up with it for awhile. But and again, adding to the problem will not solve the problem.
Having said that, if you want to retaliate at the risk of getting even more spam then google "spam" and look for various sites with suggested language for email to be sent to the responsible parties for the web sites that the spam mail typically refers you to. Generally it is something like an offer of contract to review marketing material for a fee along with language that suggests future spam indicates acceptance of said contract and terms also indicating failure to pay for said reviews in a reasonable time will result in small claims court action. I don't have any idea of the success of such a method in reducing spam as I never respond and simply file spam so I can track metrics over time. I can confirm that once I subtract mailing list traffic well over 50% of the Internet email I receive is spam.
Re #4 & #5, lighten up.
"lighten up"? Its what exactly I'm saying! Bend over and take it up the ass, its what you sign up for when you sign up for "the Internet".
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My response to the Nigerian email scam is as follows:
http://potifos.com/fraud/
I started it partly because another blogger complained that he never got
any of the famed Nigerian fraud email. I said, well, I have plenty, I can
share. I have posted well over 400 examples.
To my surprise, the page gets a lot of traffic, mostly coming via search
engines: people Googling the (usually fictitious) names in the scam
letters.
So maybe this helps cut into Nigeria's $5 billion email fraud industry,
just a little bit.
Might save somebody's life, even. A worthy public service.
How many victims do they take in every year? I doubt the people stupid enough to believe the spam would have the sense to read Larry's site.
Re 11. The victims are not necessarily stupid; they are blinded by greed. And it does appear that at least some people habitually check out new acquaintances via Google.
Dear spammers, I observed two years ago that the proportion of porn spam I received that specifically advertised the allurements of so-called "mature women" was alarmingly high. At one point, the ads for "granny bares all" neared 50% of all the porn spam I received. I am grateful and relieved that since that time, the proportion of granny porn spam has dropped to virtually nothing. However, I am disturbed to report that in its place I am now receiving an equally obnoxious proportion of animal porn ads. Donkey shows, horse cumshots, girls with monkeys... my inbox is full of this junk. Can we move on to something else, please? If you absolutely must send me porn spam, can you at least attempt to send me something remotely interesting? Thanks.
I have no idea what my porn spam is about since it is html. I just report it to spamcop and delete it. Most of it seems to be aimed at men.
resp:6 I agree. Did beady honestly think I was going to try to send that out? Hahahaha. Write me another.
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(there's no "weird email" item?) Scott, 1 Minute Preapproval From: "Orville Mireille" <fiorenzacgopad@mx83.smartmortgageratesforyou.com> To: "Scott " <scott@wwnet.net> Bridgeport, next to that of his daughter Caroline and not far from the ruins of Iranistan. His unfortunate enterprise in the clock business had not discouraged him from further business ventures. His pet city, East Bridgeport, was growing rapidly. An enormous sewing-machine factory had been built, employing a thousand workmen.
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