📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
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@ben_lubar said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Oh? The google shop service center wants me to report and unsubscribe?
But did you find it the spam?
Yes! And it went well with my eggs!
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Ha ha, yes! A Decentralized Mobile Service Provider! What a great idea that totally makes sense!
I can't even feel bad for whoever falls for this... maybe don't go around throwing money at things you don't understand?
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@dcon Is it a nuclear wessel? Those can get you into a whale of a problem.
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I got a spam email, but instead of posting a screenshot of it, I'm going to post a screenshot of a very similar email that @julianlam shared in Slack:
And yes, it is that Misty:
@psychobunny said:
send resume
1999-2003 Cerulean City Gym LeaderAnd while we were laughing at the email, this actually happened out of nowhere:
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I mean, sure, if you're willing to wait a year for no discernable reason, why not?
Oh, you're still on IDE? I don't think we have much to say...
Filed under: There was no questionnaire attached
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From the formation of this company, over a decade ago, we've been getting regular spam for an address that has never existed:
clus@<ourdomain>.co.uk
.I've tried Googling it and there are no results. It's the only non-valid address we get regular spam for (apart from the obvious ones like 'hostmaster@, admin@ etc...). I can only assume it's either a corrupt entry in a database that keeps getting resold to spammers or it is a well-known prefix for something. 'Cluster' maybe?
I keep seeing it appear the spam filter and I'll probably never get an answer as to why.
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I can only assume those forgeries are even worse.
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@gąska is Office648398354 some new Microsofttttttttt product?
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@ben_lubar said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@gąska is Office648398354 some new Microsofttttttttt product?
Or they just have A LOT of Office workers... Oh, or that's Mr Adebayo Adelabu's Social Security Number!
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Riiight.
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This one got through Google's spam filter.
Then I scrolled down and saw the MailChimp logo and an actual valid unsubscribe link. So I helped:
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hello @ben_lubar you have unsubscribed from @ben_lubar mailing list so now you are @not_ben_lubar thank
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I am not sexually attracted to these rectangles.
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@ben_lubar said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
I am not sexually attracted to these rectangles.
I dunno, those thin borders are kinda nice...
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How the heck did you lose ten thousand cats?!?!
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Maybe you should apply your NEW SKINNY PILL to your email address.
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@tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
How the heck did you lose ten thousand cats?!?!
They found a website though, so that's nice I guess.
Also, that's a pretty creepy subject line.
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@ben_lubar said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
that's a pretty creepy subject line.
I didn't know what to make of it, so I didn't comment.
I believe it has something to do with Locks of Love?
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@ben_lubar said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Unfortunately, I do not have a relpy button available to me.
DAY 86 STILL NO SIGN OF THE RELPY BUTTON I HOPE THE RELPY BUTTON WILL ARRIVE SOON
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@tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
that's a pretty creepy subject line.
I didn't know what to make of it, so I didn't comment.
I believe it has something to do with Locks of Love?
I was imagining something like this, but made of burlap and also being held in place by a different person for some reason:
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I've seen scam emails about boxes full of money, but never before have I seen a scam offering me a box made of money.
It's pretty dwarfy.
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The name is Laws. Diane Laws. My husband died two years ago and I am wondering how do I go to a bank to deposit my paycheck?
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Sorry, I didn't get your email because I blocked you.. Could you try sending the email again??
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I'm not sure what action is required, but I'm pretty sure it's "marking as spam".
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SORRY RIGHT NOW I'M ONLY OVER ONE CHAIR AND A FLOOR MAT I APOLOGIZE IF THIS IS DISAPPOINTING
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@ben_lubar said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Maybe you should apply your NEW SKINNY PILL to your email address.
.com.edu.se
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@ben_lubar those "I love you" / "I have a video about you" comments are pretty common on YouTube, I've even heard channels much larger than ours talking about them. Always a random woman's name, always a random woman's photo.
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@tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
I dunno, those thin borders are kinda nice...
Real borders have curves!
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So glad Google and Microsoft are cooperating on the Yahoo Prize Award.
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@greybeard No, no, it's Microsoft Windows that is cooperating with Google, not Microsoft Corporation.
Presumably, it's helping out by hosting the botnets which send out the prize messages.
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@scholrlea Why would they need a botnet to send three messages in three years?
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@greybeard said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@scholrlea Why would they need a botnet to send three messages in three years?
For the same reason God needs a starship.
Filed Under: /me flrrd from lynch mob for mentioning that travesty.
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@scholrlea said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
flrrd
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@masonwheeler said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@scholrlea said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
flrrd
A deliberate misspelling of 'flees'. It is an old running gag (probably from some USENET newsgroup, IRC channel, MUD, or Fido echo) whose origin is lost in the mists of time AFAIK.
The solidus (forward slash) is used in IRC and most MUDs to indicate a user command rather than a chat message, with '/me' specifically meaning 'print my user name in the chat message'.
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@scholrlea Yeah, I know all about /me. I wasn't aware of the "flrrd" meme though.
TIL :D
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Dead tree spam:
Bonus points: I don't think they're going to increase my website's exposure. The server that hosts it has been sitting variously in a storage unit, my living room floor, or a storage unit, without even a power cord connected, since 2010.
Filed under: Photographed on
woodennot real woodtablefloor.
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@anonymous234 I doubt it's reduced their income by that much. There are plenty of suckers who won't bother reading the small print
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@jaloopa Even when it's in ALLCAPSbolded text****
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FDA Warning! The colour-scheme for this email may give you cancer.
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Good for her?
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HOT AND EXPERIMENTAL SEX
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@anonymous234 said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
HOT AND EXPERIMENTAL SEX
Is it better than hot and corrosive sex? People want to know!
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nÐo problem dudе.
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Such eloquence.
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This guy's business card must be a yard long.
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@boner Doesn't have to be as long as he's got a QR code.
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THEM B0TS ARE G3TTING 5MARTER!
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Oh dear. Well, now I get to deal with this shit a bit more than normal...