I am sick of SPAMMERS!

[kiwi_2005]

In the last 2 weeks ive gotten over 6 emails most come from Nigeria! All claiming im about to be a rich. So much for my spam filter! If it aint about blardy viagra :rotfl: its about recieving lots of cash.

Just recieved this one

Dear friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay. It's really been quite a long time.

Presently i'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in
transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my secretary in COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLIC. His name is PRINCE CHRISTIAN BROWN on xxxxxxxxxx.com . Phone: 00229 970 623 75.

Ask him to send you the total of $800,000.00 which i kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touched with my secretary and instruct him where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time. In the moment, I’m very busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new partner are having at hand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with Prince Christian, he will send the amount to you without any delay.

Regards,
MR. ROWLAND WILLIAMS.

Buggar!

[Takeda Shingen]

So, how is Prince Christian? What are you going to do with the 800k?

[ASWnut101]

send one back, saying...........well....nevermind.

[STEED]

I got two from Eastern European women who want to marry me.

And that was today. :rotfl:

[ASWnut101]

was that Russian Brides.com?:p

[Fish]

A new mail address did the trick for me.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by ASWnut101

was that Russian Brides.com?:p

No I got that one blocked. If it Carry's on I shall make a note and get it blocked.

[ASWnut101]

funny

[fredbass]

But does any anti-spam programs actually block them or are they just put in another folder for you to delete later?

I get about 50 a day. Rediculous to say the least. And don't you have to manually say which ones you want to block? It's not automatically going to know is it?

So it ends up being a lot of work continuously sorting thru good from bad. A pain to say the least.

[The Noob]

Whats the problem? Just change ye adress. And no "I'm going to spam you to death!" Yahoo or similiar sh** email adress. Take a HOTMAIL.COM one. They do work nice and nearly no spam for me.

Of course i have another one for website registerings ect wich i rareley ever visit.

[kiwi_2005]

Yep but the trouble is theres always new ones coming out. So you block one yet they send another under a different name.

Sad thing about these spam emails is their are ppl out there that actually believe them and reply. Had a case of a old fella recieve one of those so common nigeria emails asking him to send 5000 and he would get part of the 1 milion within a few weeks. The guy depoisted 5000 to them. He was so upset as it was his savings he actually believed he would get part of the 1 million!!

[SUBMAN1]

Its a Nigeria scam! Follow through with it and they will eventually lure you to Nigeria and kidnap you, holding you for ransom until someone pays for your release. No one pays, and you are SOL!!!

-S

[Ducimus]

Best way to avoid spam is to use an email that is seperate from your ISP, and not subscribe to anything, and only give your real email addy on a need to have basis. I keep two emails. One for personal/family, and another for gaming. The worst thing you can do btw, is acutally reply to a spam email. How now your addy is going get on multiple spam lists, not just a single one... but meh.. its going to get spread around from list to list anyway over the course of time.

What type of spam you get, is sometimes an indicator of what you spend your time looking at BTW. All you have to do is vist one or two pr0n sites and they have you pegged for spam. I work for an internet secruity corp, and in my line of work, i get ALOT of spam by virtue of doing my job. I get sniffed constantly and i swear, not 10 mins after hitting some sites, ill have a new spam email. Over the weekend, our email spam filter will have stopped probably 1200 to 2000 spam emails sometimes. Last friday alone i got 800 spam emails that the spam blocker caught.

[Rockstar]

Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... (Crescendo through next few lines...)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.
Wife: I don't like spam!

[STEED]

Bit short Rockstar, I got the whole thing and on a couple of times posted it but if I post it one more time poor old Sailor Steve may go out and purchase a dead parrot.