📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
All rights what? I'm sure you don't want to get into any copyright trouble with *|LIST:COMPANY|*
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@hungrier said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
All rights what? I'm sure you don't want to get into any copyright trouble with *|LIST:COMPANY|*
All rights
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
No, I'm 8-bit grayscale.
You look kinda blue to me.
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@Zerosquare said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
No, I'm 8-bit grayscale.
You look kinda blue to me.
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@Tsaukpaetra I was shopping the other day and this song came on, except instead of this one it was the more recent "I'm good" song that sampled it. My day was ruined and my disappointment was immeasurable
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@hungrier said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra I was shopping the other day and this song came on, except instead of this one it was the more recent "I'm good" song that sampled it. My day was ruined and my disappointment was immeasurable
I know it. And same.
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@hungrier Sigh... So it's a world-wide phenomenon? (die-dee-beedeebee)
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
No, I'm 8-bit grayscale.
Unbelievable from anyone else but given your age I'm inclined to believe.
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I recommend this version instead:
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@Zerosquare said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
No, I'm 8-bit grayscale.
You look kinda blue to me.
Turn up the heating if that's a problem.
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@Luhmann said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
No, I'm 8-bit grayscale.
Unbelievable from anyone else but given your age I'm inclined to believe.
Better than being 4-bit CGA color pallette.
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Better than being 4-bit CGA color pallette.
I prefer the 4-color cyan/magenta CGA.
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Its a bold move to put your intention in the first line.
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Hell, no! I definitely did not buy any coin.
However, I did log into PayPal (not using any link in the email, of course, but there don't seem to be any links) to verify that there aren't any fraudulent charges; there aren't.
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@HardwareGeek PayPal don’t send emails from iCloud.com email addresses though.
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@Arantor True. And I certainly noticed that, among many other red flags. However, it never hurts to check your accounts occasionally for fraudulent activity.
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Just received one of those famous emails asking me for wankcoins:
This is my last warning.
I write you since I attached a trojan on the web site with porno which you have viewed. My trojan captured all your private data and switched on your camera which recorded the act of your solitary sex. Just after that the trojan saved your contact list. I will erase the compromising video records and info if you transfer $redacted USD in bitcoins.
This is address for payment: 69redacted69
I give you 24 hours after you open my message for making the payment. As soon as you read the message I'll see that right away. It is not necessary to tell me that you have sent money to me.
If you need 42h just open the calculator and type: redacted
Let me remind you - I see what you're doing. If you don't pay, I'll send this dirt to all your contacts. If you try to decieve me, I'll know it immediately. Your life can be ruined.
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I love when things directly contradict other things on the very same page. Like, how hard can it possibly be?
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@BernieTheBernie I wonder if porn stars ever get this sort of spam.
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Double fault telemarketer yesterday:
Calls me on my business number.
Wants to talk about my personal phone.
Sounds like he's from my current operator.
At the end of the call drops that my "new improved price" would mean changing operator.
I tell him that no, I am not switching operator.
He gets pissy and terminates call.I then go refresh the rules for telemarketing here as my private number is listed in the NIX registry which means that telemarketers are not allowed to cold call that number. This also extends to not being allowed to call a person's business number for private matters. Business number is for calling about business stuff. He also was not clear with who he was calling for, which is a big fucking no in telemarketing rules regardless. So, all he caused was that I sent a complaint to the authority regarding shady practices from operator. Which is not one of the shitpile cheapo ones, but one of the bigger ones, 3.
So much for their advertising about being a Trevlig operator. Employing shady practices, trevlig indeed...
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@Atazhaia said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
telemarketers are not allowed to cold call that number.
When I bother picking up the phone for an unknown number, I now put the phone on loudspeaker (so I can put it down next to me and keep doing whatever I'm doing), then I say "sorry, I'm not interested" at the first opportunity and then leave the line open until they decide to hang up.
I feel that it's not too rude if I'm just talking to a poor helpless call centre drone who needs a job to pay their bill, and at the same time it's annoying enough for those who can't hear "no" and it doesn't waste my time.
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@remi In Sweden the telemarketing businesses have self-regulated to allow numbers to be put on a cold-calling blocklist. I hardly get any calls nowadays because I'm on it, like any sane person. And it means that anyone who does call me can look forward to being reported to the consumer agency.
Before the blocklist came I also lived in an apartment with power included in the rent. 90% of all cold-calling was power companies. Yeah...
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@Atazhaia in theory it's the same in France, including the ability to complain and things did improve when the service was first put in place.
But 1) there are a couple of exceptions (can't remember them, but some types of companies are still allowed to cold-call) and more importantly 2) scummy companies who don't give a shit don't give a shit so they'll cold-call you anyway and since they don't give a shit they use random (or hidden) caller numbers so you can't really report them.
They are also the ones that lie (*) and sell various scams (**), so if you still get calls you're double-sure you can tell them to fuck off. But of course, like spam and phishing their targets are naive people, so they don't care.
(*) they all start with the good'ol "I'm not trying to sell you anything" (yeah, right...), then nowadays a very common one is "we're sent by the national electricity provider" (no you're not) or "someone will be coming in your street tomorrow and..." (I tried once to tell them that it was funny how many times someone was supposed to come and didn't but of course that didn't even register as me being sarcastic).
(**) nowadays, mostly about energy savings e.g. changing your boiler or, most often, roof/wall insulation. Those are sadly fed by government subsidies where low-income families get most of the cost reimbursed, meaning they don't care if it's a shoddy job since they don't actually pay, so a lot of scummy workers do quick-and-dirty jobs. This is particularly annoying as insulation may look good but be almost useless if you've left e.g. small gaps, which those shoddy workers are very likely to do.
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Someone is offering me a 50€ Amazon gift card. Wow!
Look at the sender adress:
contact@carrothunter.com
I am no rabbit!
But I might become rabid due to spam!
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Whoops, looks like some site harvested my email and smartly removed my tracking tag.
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MacBook is technology that doesn't suit me, and I'm resisting it quite easily, TYVM.
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
MacBook is technology that doesn't suit me, and I'm resisting it quite easily, TYVM.
That equation actually works (I'm assuming you do like tech).
Because "too good to resist" = 0, "discover tech" = some positive value, hence "This MacBook" is a negative.
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
MacBook is technology that doesn't suit me, and I'm resisting it quite easily, TYVM.
Is it because you hate yourself? Now I hate Apple as much as the next guy, but you can't beat the performance.
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@dangeRuss said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
you can't beat the performance
You can easily beat the performance, but I have to give that battery performance is positively amazing.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
you can't beat the performance
You can easily beat the performance, but I have to give that battery performance is positively amazing.
Can you? Show me a laptop with better benchmarks.
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@dangeRuss Lenovo Thinkbook 16p G4 IRH, with either i7 or i9.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
you can't beat the performance
You can easily beat the performance, but I have to give that battery performance is positively amazing.
I would expect it to be better - they don't have to support a touch screen.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@dangeRuss Lenovo Thinkbook 16p G4 IRH, with either i7 or i9.
Looks pretty neck to neck.
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Stupid recruiter spam:
Move across the country to a higher cost of living area for a non-technical warehouse job at 1/3 of what I'm making now? Who wouldn't jump at an opportunity like that?!?
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Well, you'd no longer have to use Perl and Tk. And "tape out" would involve nothing more than this:
I'd think about it if I were you.
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Stupid recruiter spam:
Move across the country for a non-technical warehouse job at 1/3 of what I'm making now? Who wouldn't jump at an opportunity like that?!?
Don't think retirement! Think rehirement!
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@izzion See edit .
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@HardwareGeek think about it though. With your DDF, you could probably single handedly sink any business that does shipping.
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It’s possible that being at the epicentre of the deliveries’ source would only serve to hasten their departure and subsequent transportation.
Science is needed!
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So... they're looking for someone who does analog, mixed-signal, VHDL, power, PCB routing, assembly, C++, C# and documentation writing. On the cheap. Yeah, right, good luck with that. (I'm surprised they're don't ask for RF and EMC as well, because why not?)
Also, given they mention of aerospace and Cadence tools, they can't even use the "we're a startup company with no money" excuse.
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@Zerosquare They're a staffing agency, so they're getting significantly more than they're offering to pay the contractor. I missed the "aerospace" in the description. I was guessing the client was probably Intel, but they don't have any aerospace connection that I know of. But yeah, neither Intel nor aerospace firms should be hiring bargain-basement contractors.
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@Zerosquare said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Yeah, right, good luck with that.
I..... should not say anything about my qualifications....
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
I was guessing the client was probably Intel,
I mean, zip code 85286 is down the road so it wouldn't be an unreasonable guess...
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@Atazhaia said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Double fault telemarketer yesterday:
Calls me on my business number.
Wants to talk about my personal phone.
Sounds like he's from my current operator.
At the end of the call drops that my "new improved price" would mean changing operator.
I tell him that no, I am not switching operator.
He gets pissy and terminates call.I have my home land-line phone ( ) and Internet service with the same company. They have a website where I can block phone numbers and anyone calling me from a blocked number will get a recording that says something along the line of "This person is not accepting calls at this time".
There are a number of WTFs involved.
I'm only allowed to block a maximum of 30 numbers, so after hitting the limit I delete the oldest number so I can add a new number.Determining which number is oldest is not actually possible because the numbers aren't listed in the order that I added them, they are sorted by phone number
So I keep a text file on my computer with all the numbers in the order that they were blocked along with the date that they were blocked. I find the oldest number and then search for it on the number blocking page so I can delete it and then add a new number.
I was skeptical at first but it seems to be working. It's been about a year now and spam phone calls have dropped from around 10 a month to pretty much zero. The last time I blocked a phone number was October 31.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Atazhaia said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Double fault telemarketer yesterday:
Calls me on my business number.
Wants to talk about my personal phone.
Sounds like he's from my current operator.
At the end of the call drops that my "new improved price" would mean changing operator.
I tell him that no, I am not switching operator.
He gets pissy and terminates call.I have my home land-line phone ( ) and Internet service with the same company. They have a website where I can block phone numbers and anyone calling me from a blocked number will get a recording that says something along the line of "This person is not accepting calls at this time".
There are a number of WTFs involved.
I'm only allowed to block a maximum of 30 numbers, so after hitting the limit I delete the oldest number so I can add a new number.Determining which number is oldest is not actually possible because the numbers aren't listed in the order that I added them, they are sorted by phone number
So I keep a text file on my computer with all the numbers in the order that they were blocked along with the date that they were blocked. I find the oldest number and then search for it on the number blocking page so I can delete it and then add a new number.
I was skeptical at first but it seems to be working. It's been about a year now and spam phone calls have dropped from around 10 a month to pretty much zero. The last time I blocked a phone number was October 31.
Or the FCC did something useful and it's actually harder to spoof phone #'s now.
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@dangeRuss said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
the FCC did something useful and it's actually harder to spoof phone #'s now.
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
the FCC did something useful and it's actually harder to spoof phone #'s now.