Funny (but true) spam story

So, here I am removing 300 spam emails from my inbox...

Another 72 people that think I need Viagra.
40 people that want to refinance my house.
Oops... another 65 people that think I need Viagra.
2 emails from those who want to refinance my house so I can afford the Viagra...

etc. etc..

Not a single spam email relating to pornography... go figure.

5 emails from my mother. They're all those silly stories to make you feel good (or bad, depending on your upbringing) emails that get forwarded and passed around to hundreds of others...

She doesn't understand why she gets viruses...

ANYWAY...

So I delete those as well (I never open them).

Not 15 minutes later I received another spam email. I don't remember the sender, but the subject was (punctuation and spelling below is exact):

"dont ignore yur mother..."


Ever just look around the room waiting for someone to jump out at you?

:chuckle:

Wow, that is a lot of spam!!!!

That's quite funny. It's interesting to think that this kind of thing happens every day dispite it being so unlikely...

Dave Barry's bit on Spam. (http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/3651015.htm) (may require a registration)
An Excerpt:

Every day I get dozens, sometimes hundreds, of e-mails from these people, almost always trying to sell me one of four things: (1) pornography; (2) Viagra; (3) a product for the man who is not satisfied with his natural self and would like to increase, by as much as three inches, the size of his endowment; or (4) a low-interest mortgage.

Why are there so many e-mail ads for these products? Does anybody buy them? Is there a town somewhere, called Spamville, where the men consume Viagra and pornography in bulk quantities, then lurch around in a lust-crazed frenzy, their huge artificially enhanced endowments knocking holes in their walls, so eventually their houses fall down, forcing them to purchase new ones, using low-interest mortgages?

"dont ignore yur mother..."
You're mother is probably more savy than you thought and installed a spy-bot on your system to see whether or not you are reading her emails. ;)

blindwig: That's why Dave Barry is a funny, funny man. I like his cruise ship commentary (can't seem to find it at the moment, actually...)

There is two new ones that deserve to be added.

1. Get your goverment grants, $25000-$35000 guaranteed (I get like 15 of these a day)
2. Complete this survey and get a Dell Laptop Free!!! (or similar, 20-40 of these per day)

And then I saw a really funny one, it promised that if you bought their product, women would come flocking to you. Some kind of bottled Pheremone apparently. One of the testimonials said that he had started his own Harem... (So much for a larger Endowment).

You're mother is probably more savy than you thought and installed a spy-bot on your system to see whether or not you are reading her emails. ;)

HAHA!! :D

Trust me she's not. My folks have repeatedly messed up their computer bad enough that I've simply wiped and reloaded their OS, patches and software for them 8 times in the last year. Far simpler, less time consuming, and I get to save my Excedrin supply for another day if I just wipe and reload...

If she could do that however, she probably would...

The government grants spam I've been getting... haven't had anything promising me a free Dell or a harem. :(

Interestingly enough, I've been getting a lot of MailAdministrator - undeliverable mail spam lately. I don't have, have never had, an email address book on my computer. I simply don't email people enough to need the computer to remember the addresses for me. I use Cox for my ISP, and keep my emails on THEIR servers, instead of downloading it to my machine... yet I still get emails from Cox saying that they couldn't deliver emails that I never sent... anyone come across this?

I still get emails from Cox saying that they couldn't deliver emails that I never sent... anyone come across this?

I've been getting alot of unexplained bounce-backs lately. Apparently some virus-peddling buggers pick someone elses address at random and are able to fake it into their email headers. Or somesuch, I'm unaware of the tech-talk for it, but I'm getting a couple a week, always something I never sent, to someone I don't know, knocked back due to infection.

Weird, ...
I hardly ever get spam emails, I can't remember when I last saw a virus notice on my system and the times I run Adaware it finds nothing really malicious. :-\

Looking at the index page of the forum just now I was amused to see, next to Forum Questions /Concerns/Comments, this nugget:
"How to change the size of my..."
For some reason this reminded me immediately of so much of the junk email that I find in my Hotmail inbox.....

Looking at the index page of the forum just now I was amused to see, next to Forum Questions /Concerns/Comments, this nugget:
"How to change the size of my..."
For some reason this reminded me immediately of so much of the junk email that I find in my Hotmail inbox.....
:chuckle: