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brento1138
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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 Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject: Seriously, what's the point of these emails??? |
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For over 2 years, I've been getting about 5 of these non-sense emails a day. They don't seem to advertise anything whatsoever. So I just don't see what the point of them is. If anyone knows, I'd be interested...
So, here's an example email. It's from "Joyce" and the subject is "surf"
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spectra
2 percent for last quarter.
I can tell you exactly how a pointless blog full of poorly written, incoherent commentary made it to the front page on Digg.
The very next Sputnick launched contained the first terrestrial space traveller, Laika, a dog. The action took place south of Hebron city in the southern part of the West Bank on Wednesday.
The site already logs about 35 million users each month and millions more during weather disasters. Fawzi Barhum, a Hamas spokesperson "The participation in the unity government will support the Palestinian position, so, all are invited to participate in this national project.
In passato, invece di accettare di trattare con Arafat, gli israeliani lo hanno sempre definito non degno, un uomo incapace di stabilire trattative di pace.
8MLindsey German STWC - mp3 1. In other words, the percentage is calculated by using different scopes for the numerator and the denumerator. The best memory of Teeny Little Super Guy is helping a little girl on to an egg beater without little egg beater training wheels for the first time.
In America, Ben Franklin is credited with conceiving of the first such publication, in 1741.
How a lottery winner spends his multi-million-dollar jackpot - Feb. She confirmed that they agreed to implement a two-state solution, to uphold all previous agreements, and to work within the framework of the US-sponsored Road Map Peace Plan.
They were named as Mussa Quqass, and Mudar Abu Daiah, both aged 17. His goal: to use his winnings to become a billionaire.
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Seriously, what is the point of this email? And I honestly get like 5 of these a day. Also, it has an attachment of a ".gif" file which displays an image with more non-sense writings...
I mean, I could understand if this SPAM made sense, but obviously there must be someone out there with way too much time on his hands. Could it just be an insane SPAM computer program that gained some form of insane intelligence or self-awareness!??? Grrrr.  |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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| They're fishing. |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:11 am Post subject: |
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| Don't open them. Bad things can happen. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:33 am Post subject: |
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| Yea strangely enough I seem to get alot of these at Gmail. they go straight into the spam account and I don't even open them. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:50 am Post subject: |
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I often receive emails advertising viagra and various *beep* enhancement treatments. It's quite ironic really, because I have a really tiny *beep* and I suffer from premature ejaculation. I think my girlfriend is sending these emails but I can't be sure....  |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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ADware
Spamware
Malware
Viruses
Spyware
Never open those. It's just an invitation to get more. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| They're fishing. |
What does that mean? |
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Bramble
Joined: 26 Jan 2007
Location: National treasures need homes
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| They're fishing. |
What does that mean? |
I'd like to know too. I'd never open up any attachments from these people, but sometimes I'll open up a message by accident in case I know the person. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:54 am Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
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| They're fishing. |
What does that mean? |
They send an e-mail hoping someone will respond asking what it's all about. Then they respond with, "Oops. I must've sent it to the wrong address. I was talking about this deal where you can make a lot of money..."
There are a lot of naive people out there. You know? The kind that just must send chain letters or sign up for anything where "You can win!"
Fishing. Throw the line out and see if you get any bites. |
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Bramble
Joined: 26 Jan 2007
Location: National treasures need homes
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:04 am Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| They're fishing. |
What does that mean? |
They send an e-mail hoping someone will respond asking what it's all about. Then they respond with, "Oops. I must've sent it to the wrong address. I was talking about this deal where you can make a lot of money..."
There are a lot of naive people out there. You know? The kind that just must send chain letters or sign up for anything where "You can win!"
Fishing. Throw the line out and see if you get any bites. |
I can understand people doing that if the messages made any sense, but the ones I receive are absolute gibberish. I'd never respond to any of them (obviously). |
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kotakji
Joined: 23 Oct 2006
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I think he might mean the ones that have a picture embedded with the actual advertisement in the form of the picture. I get 1 or 2 of these a day that are usually penny stock recommendations trying to drive up market price I assume. They put the giberish in the text part so that it gets past spam filters (which it does at least for yahoo accounts)
The email program hes using probebly just doesnt display the embedded picture. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:15 am Post subject: |
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| Bramble wrote: |
| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| They're fishing. |
What does that mean? |
They send an e-mail hoping someone will respond asking what it's all about. Then they respond with, "Oops. I must've sent it to the wrong address. I was talking about this deal where you can make a lot of money..."
There are a lot of naive people out there. You know? The kind that just must send chain letters or sign up for anything where "You can win!"
Fishing. Throw the line out and see if you get any bites. |
I can understand people doing that if the messages made any sense, but the ones I receive are absolute gibberish. I'd never respond to any of them (obviously). |
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| How a lottery winner spends his multi-million-dollar jackpot... |
They'll bring it up somehow if you bother with them. I don't know for sure. Just a guess. |
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