📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
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@aliceif said:
.moe
Is that a TLD for three stooges fans?
That [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_%28slang%29]really depends on how you feel about the Three Stooges[/url].
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Way to make your promotional emails for a service I didn't sign up for look like low-effort phishing, UWM.
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The usual case of that is people who are stupid and/or object to the lack of an unsubscribe and demonstrate that objection with the "this is spam" button.
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About 99.9% of the spam I get is on my university address is from various businesses in Milwaukee that either scraped the page that includes all email addresses of people named Ben or - and this is the scariest possibility - I was signed up for those mailing lists by someone who works at the university's enrollment office.
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It would mean that my university employs someone whose job is to sign students up for mailing lists they don't want.
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Or that it is a side-business for them. Might be entirely against university policy but happen anyway.
Frankly, I'm more worried about floods, supervolcanoes and necrotising fasciitis.
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You Are Not Required To Capitalize Every Single Word
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You Are Not Required To Capitalize Every Single Word
What A Shame! Such A Lost Opportunity!
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Frankly, I'm more worried about floods, supervolcanoes and necrotising fasciitis.
As long as it isn't lupus.
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It's never lupus.
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And I guess that everyone lies?
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not required != not allowed to ;)
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It would mean that my university employs someone whose job is to sign students up for mailing lists they don't want.
I doubt that.
How much would a few thousand university hosted email addresses even be worth to spammers? $10?
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The usual case of that is people who are stupid and/or object to the lack of an unsubscribe and demonstrate that objection with the "this is spam" button.
Promotional emails for a service you didn't sign up for are spam. That's what the "this is spam" button is there for.
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I can only assume from the fact that you keep posting that link, that you don't mind the spam.
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It would mean that my university employs someone whose job is to sign students up for mailing lists they don't want.
This is my shocked fa...nope, sorry, couldn't hold it long enough.
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You Are Not Required To Capitalize Every Single Word
I just assumed that whoever wrote that was German.
My application has this annoying quirk that a bunch of the warning and error messages Are Written Like That. I fix them when I find them.
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Ha ha. blubar. It sounds like "blubber".
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Promotional emails for a service you didn't sign up for are spam. That's what the "this is spam" button is there for.
Yes, but anyone who administers a mailing list of any size knows that all kinds of dumbasses sign up for a mailing list, then decide they don't want it, and hit the spam button instead of unsubscribing. Then every once in a while, someone like Yahoo decides the entire list is spam, and stops delivering mail to anyone with a yahoo email address, and the list maintainer has to deal with hundreds of angry yahoos who aren't getting their daily kitten pics or whatever.
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That's an interesting anecdote but it has nothing to do with this situation.
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Germans only capitalize Nouns and Words at the Beginning of a Sentence.
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That's an interesting anecdote but it has nothing to do with this situation.
Since Ben is a student, the college probably just presumed he'd want--or just DGAF and gave him them anyway--these emails. Matriculation is consent, dude.
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Germans only capitalize Nouns and Words at the Beginning of a Sentence.
I know. I was trolling you a little, because unlike some of the more excitable types around here, I knew you wouldn't go crazy about it.
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@anotherusername said:
That's an interesting anecdote but it has nothing to do with this situation.
Since Ben is a student, the college probably just presumed he'd want--or just DGAF and gave him them anyway--these emails. Matriculation is consent, dude.
Yes and my wife should let me fuck her whenever I want, because matrimony is also consent!
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Yes and my wife should let me fuck her whenever I want, because matrimony is also consent!
"The above and other narrations of the beloved of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) clearly signify the importance of the wife obeying her husband in his request for sexual intimacy. It will be a grave sin (in normal circumstances) for the wife to refuse her husband"
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Germans only capitalize Nouns and Words at the Beginning of a Sentence.
As well as Sometimes second person and third person plural, but only in Letters or when talking To someone. Though the latter makes it Hard to tEll. But not so egomaniac to uppercase first person singular.
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How about no.
I'm thinking of setting up an alias for stuff like this but somehow I think the government will frown on it.
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Original and current? Will they accept "fluid?" How many are allowed for one individual? Will they accept a range, or do they want each one enumerated? Asking on behalf ofa friendanother forum member.
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If anybody was uncertain what scam they're running in that, it works like this: hapless target receives a phony check for much more than necessary. They're told go, spend, fill out a survey, keep $250, and return the overage by wire transfer. They spend the money before the check clears, send a bunch more money to the scammer, and when the check eventually doesn't clear, their bank debits their account whatever amount it had previously advanced them. Hapless target can probably return whatever items they purchased and get a refund on those, but whatever money they wired to the scammer is gone forever. Scammer got their payday and moves to the next hapless target.
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How about no.
Interesting how they write “A.d.d.r.e.s.s” as if they think that writing it out normally might cause them problems. Almost as if they think they are trying to avoid some sort of filter…
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Here's one I'm really not going to respond to:
Subject: Re:How to hire a real hitman to kill or beat up cash insurance or take revenge with Besa Mafia
I won't post the whole thing, but it then goes on to describe how to access the "Deep Web" by downloading a Tor browser and visiting some
random_alphanumeric.onion
website toHire a real hitman for only US $5000 , they are gangster who do drug dealing but they also do murder.
They also explain how to cover your tracks to avoid being connected with the crime.
Or, instead of using Tor and the Deep Web, you can just email them at
aussieseoxperts.com
. Yeah, that should be untraceable. Finally, for some reason that domain name makes me think they're up to shenanigans not related to hit men.Shift+Delete, Compact Folder.
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Subject: Re:How to hire a real hitman to kill or beat up cash insurance or take revenge with Besa Mafia
Damn, we should stop playing this game here, they're onto us...
Filed under: that can of gas is totally for my lawnmower
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You're the Lawnmower Man?
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they are gangster who do drug dealing but they also do murder
Fuck, they do drug dealing and also murder? Those must be some real hard-asses. Yeesh.
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I got two more of these last night. I wonder what their scam is. Interestingly, all three have been sent to the admin address for a mailing list (possibly the world's least busy mailing list; AFAICT I haven't received any non-admin mail from the list in over five years).
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Just to recap:
- The FBI found out that I won the lottery using their newly developed technology called International Monitoring Network System.
- I'm supposed to contact Nicholas Smith in Benin through his email address that they did not provide.
- The director of the FBI's signature looks like this:
Yours in Service,Photograph of Director
JAMES COMEY, IIIJAMES COMEY,
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"Hello, I am Jessica Mohammed from the US army will you marry me"
"Hello I am Phillippe Mohammed from our country can you take this money off my hands"
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Just got this one, with the date set to April 5, 2015:
Browwssse our huge sellection oof name brndd drugs online now
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Every so often the Church of Scientology changes their emails in such a way that Gmail momentarily neglects to filter them out. So today I got this:
Yay.
Dress: Formal or Steampunk Formal. NO STEAMPUNK CASUAL!
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STEAMPUNK CASUAL!
To be fair, that almost sounds like an oxymoron, but since I don't currently have loaded a definition for "steampunk:, I can't decide for certain...
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since I don't currently have loaded a definition for "steampunk:, I can't decide for certain...
I think they're trying to avoid this:
And this:
But will accept this:
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Soooo.... the "ED ppiills" will give you such a vibrant, long lasting and powerful erection, that you'll be able to type out whole emails with your penis?
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Every so often the Church of Scientology changes their emails in such a way that Gmail momentarily neglects to filter them out.
How'd you get on their mailing list in the first place? This sounds like an interesting story.
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I'm on that one. They offer prizes for short stories and crap.
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This sounds like an interesting story.
It's not. Signed up to get free sci-fi short stories before I realized it was Scientology.