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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Liberator on September 28, 2003, 02:28:10 am

Title: This was in my email
Post by: Liberator on September 28, 2003, 02:28:10 am: Kind of odd considering I'm male.

Quote

Yes, you can have bigger Boobs too

Yes, I want bigger Boobs now:

*link removed*

Love

Susan

I've of course gotten the standard offers to increase my manhood;7 but this is the first time I've gotten this. :eek:
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Knight Templar on September 28, 2003, 02:59:58 am: Congratulations. You have now entered the internet. It knows you.
Title: This was in my email
Post by: karajorma on September 28, 2003, 03:10:34 am: You've got it all wrong. It's not a spam for breast enlargement. Some girl called Susan wants you and she's convinced she will have bigger boobs than anyone else in your life :lol:
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Bobboau on September 28, 2003, 07:52:31 am: I have an aunt who gets constant spam to enlarge her manhood
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Setekh on September 28, 2003, 08:18:26 am: I seriously wonder who these spammers think they're going to reach through these things. *sigh*
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Zeronet on September 28, 2003, 08:19:39 am: If 0.01% of people reply or some stupidly small number like that, they make money.
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Tian Guan on September 28, 2003, 11:00:06 am: If 0% of them reply they make money.

All they get paid for is to send the ads out to as many people as possible. It's the companies whose motives should be questioned.

And all this kind of stuff increases the company profile. If you keep seeing "Free sex-vids on DailyRedHeads.com" 500 times a day in your Inbox, when you begin to talk about your disgust at the spammers you will say "Man, I hate all this DailyRedHeads.com crap" and the person to whom you are talking might actually care enough to visit/sign-up.

See, I just did it in that last paragraph. And I'm betting at least one person goes and tries to access that domain/site. So it obviously works.
Title: This was in my email
Post by: kode on September 28, 2003, 11:10:39 am: I was going to, but then I thought you might have pulled the address out of your hat.
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Taristin on September 28, 2003, 11:28:35 am: I'm starting to get tired of these emails too... I'm getting them with the first letter starred so that spam blockers don't figure it out...

"*uckin teens"

and crap like that... really annoying... I don't even know how they got this address, unless it was HLP selling it...
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Knight Templar on September 28, 2003, 01:03:05 pm: You should be appreciative though.. we all know how much you could use the extra manhood and tittie job.

;)
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Liberator on September 28, 2003, 03:43:04 pm: What are you inferring?
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Grey Wolf on September 28, 2003, 03:50:38 pm: The way they figure out your email adress? They combine random letters and numbers with a known domain name, and then the bots spam their silicon hearts out.
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Knight Templar on September 28, 2003, 04:00:06 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Liberator
What are you inferring?

That your ta ta's and yum yum are inferior!
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Woolie Wool on September 28, 2003, 05:18:09 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
I'm starting to get tired of these emails too... I'm getting them with the first letter starred so that spam blockers don't figure it out...

"*uckin teens"

and crap like that... really annoying... I don't even know how they got this address, unless it was HLP selling it...

There are crawlers which search the web for email adresses.
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Levyathan on September 28, 2003, 05:40:14 pm: Bastards, they are, those pesky little crawlers.
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Styxx on September 28, 2003, 08:29:17 pm: Yes. We would never sell your email addresses. Ever.
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Tian Guan on September 28, 2003, 08:45:15 pm: Gamespy however.......
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Drew on September 28, 2003, 09:24:44 pm: then the just forge email so you cant really trace it back...
Title: This was in my email
Post by: ZylonBane on September 29, 2003, 10:25:51 am: A while ago I suddenly started getting spams diguised as mail server error messages. Got about 20 in one day once.
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Zeronet on September 29, 2003, 11:47:07 am: I get about 5 MS Patches a day, which contain viruses.
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Woolie Wool on September 29, 2003, 11:57:50 am: I once got bombed with 17 virus mails with vague subject lines, each from a different source, with dates and times that were practically identical.
Title: This was in my email
Post by: magatsu1 on September 29, 2003, 12:28:47 pm: some bloke keeps mailing me saying a wealthy relative died in some Air Korea flight 51/2 years ago and US banking laws only allow my unclaimed riches to remain unclaimed for 6 years.
Well, first it was 6 years, then he mailed again and said 7 years.
Get your story straight fool !!
Title: This was in my email
Post by: kode on September 29, 2003, 12:31:25 pm: maybe there were more than one wealthy relative?
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Martinus on September 29, 2003, 02:47:38 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Styxx
Yes. We would never sell your email addresses. Ever.

[color=66ff00]*looks at boxes full of stuff at the back of the staff room*
Then where'd all this free microsoft gear and pr0n come from?!?
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Title: This was in my email
Post by: YodaSean on September 29, 2003, 04:21:12 pm: Quote
Originally posted by magatsu1
some bloke keeps mailing me saying a wealthy relative died in some Air Korea flight 51/2 years ago and US banking laws only allow my unclaimed riches to remain unclaimed for 6 years.
Well, first it was 6 years, then he mailed again and said 7 years.
Get your story straight fool !!

I got that too, but he told me 20 years...or maybe it was 20 billion dollars. I think the same person/robot thing also sent me an offer for 100 dollars in free condoms :wtf:
Title: This was in my email
Post by: vyper on September 29, 2003, 04:44:48 pm: [q]100 dollars in free condoms [/q]

Good weekend worth of fun there. :D
Title: This was in my email
Post by: Woolie Wool on September 29, 2003, 05:07:10 pm: ;7:lol:
Title: This was in my email
Post by: karajorma on September 29, 2003, 06:02:52 pm: Quote
Originally posted by magatsu1
some bloke keeps mailing me saying a wealthy relative died in some Air Korea flight 51/2 years ago and US banking laws only allow my unclaimed riches to remain unclaimed for 6 years.
Well, first it was 6 years, then he mailed again and said 7 years.
Get your story straight fool !!

You could just Con them back (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/31270.html) like the guy on that link did. One of the funniest things I read in a while cause as far as I can see it was perfectly legal :D