📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
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Perhaps if I had read the short story beforehand?
Like I said, I did not think it was a bad movie. It was just...predictable. I had it about 50% figured out in the first 10 minutes. Well before the halfway point I had the rest of it figured out. After that, it was a matter of watching it all play out.
Overall it was entertaining. Also, I still cannot entirely figure it out, as there is a definite paradox that leaves the main character(s) unable to exist due to her/his/their paradoxical nature. Very chicken and egg.
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I wonder if they extended the conference to physics just so they could put something about "lasers" in the title...
(We need more people to sign up for this conference, how can we make it cool? Lasers! Lasers! Frigging lasers!)
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Charles Townes, laser co-creator and Nobel prize winner, died three days ago.
I wonder if there was a light show at his funeral.
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OK, maybe not technically spam, but I set up a couple of accounts (because they somehow broke accounts, or it was so borken I wasn't sure if it got created correctly or something) right when this thing opened a year and a half ago to see what was what. Haven't done anything with it. But now they've been spamming me about buying health insurance:
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Learn IT for "between 10$ and 20$:"
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programming languages like CSS, HTML, HTML5
Something's telling me you'll be getting your money's worth.
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http://i.imgur.com/mbmXtg2.png
Uh... uncomfortable, I suppose?
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Since he/she/it only "grropped" you in his/her/its dream, I would think you didn't feel anything at the time. Later, when he/she/it told you about it....
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I'd be uncomfortable with having my
/home
directorygrep
ped on a public network ...
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I'd be uncomfortable with having my /home directory grepped on a public network ...
It always starts with an innocent
grep
, but then they always want totouch
, thenfinger
, and then you wake up after a fullfsck
and there's nomake clean
for you at that point.
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finger
Know the risks:Other programs may get upset by thrash anywhere on a
line.File systems may fill up as the finger server keeps
sending data.The finger server may take forever because it is
somehow wedgedAnd that's why I stay on the safe side and use
safe_finger
.
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I got this email about a minute ago. It was apparently sent 6 days ago by another student who was signed up for notifications of elevator closings and random meaningless awards nobody has ever heard of. I'm on the list because I have autism and that apparently forces me to take elevators.
Anyway.
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Did you get any “me too” yet?
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Uhhhh....
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Click-tracking links.
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Hmm... and yet I just signed up for a different Discourse forum, generating almost identical emails which were not flagged by Thunderbird...
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Maybe that forum doesn't use the click tracking? What domain do the links actually go to? TDWTF's say what.thedailywtf.com, but actually go to mandrillapp.com/track/click.php, or at least they used to last year; I disabled all mail notifications within a few days of being migrated from the old forums.
I apologize if this is a duplicate post; with the 502s and 504s, Dicsourse can't seem to decide whether I've already posted this or not.
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Only Alex could turn off the click tracking - it's done by the thing that sends the emails, not by Discourse.
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From: Lone (ealex007@netexperts.co.uk)
Sent: Thursday, 19 February 2015 3:34:00 a.m.Microsoft SmartScreen marked this message as junk and we'll delete it after ten days.
Wait, it's safe! | I'm not sure. Let me checkjOrder zTabz Here
http://garnetconsult.ru/repairs.php
Said my child and hardly knew what it meant
See the kitten on the wall far in the bosom of helvellyn
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Nuclear family?!
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My favorite one was from maybe 12 years ago or so? Maybe more? I was on Earthlink Dial-up. I remember that.
Porn spam:
Watch amazing virgin mom take it hard in the ass!!!
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Damn, the spammers are getting cheap these days:
http://i.imgur.com/bpO43oU.png
And some just want to find new friends... using BCC on probably illegally obtained mailing lists:
http://i.imgur.com/SlYjiOD.png
Others seek the deceased. Well I'll be sure to forward to them when I get the chance.
http://i.imgur.com/8qcBglA.png
Apparently, the Reserve Bank of India is in some deep trouble if they need to use free webmail. No wonder, though, if their latest business decision was apparently purchasing $1M worth of Coca-Cola...
http://i.imgur.com/0AXFjW4.png
That girl seems to have a tempting offer, but with that kind of kitchen skills, I'd rather pass:
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Was the first one in English, or did you translate it with Google? I've seen some broken English in spam, but Belgium that's bad.
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Not me, no. I wouldn't vouch for the guy though...
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I wouldn't vouch for the guy
Well, no. I wouldn't vouch for any spammer, much less a Nigerian (or Benin, in that case) scammer.
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...you mean I'm not getting that dollar and a half, am I?
Oh well, at least there's still a strawberry-coated lady for me.
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To be fair, I'm pretty sure I clicked.
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URGENT: YOU ARE AUTISTIC SO HERE IS INFORMATION ABOUT AN ELEVATOR IN A BUILDING YOU DON'T GO TO
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Also, I just realized they literally have a backslash in their URL. So maybe thinking they'll understand technology is too much.
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Also, I just realized they literally have a backslash in their URL.
Sounds like they're disrespecting your autism. ;)
It's that footer in red that really annoys me. Lots of places put that sort of thing on as part of a footer, and it always struck me as intensely stupid. If you're communicating information covered by privacy laws, you have no alternative than to take care with who the recipients are. How is this concept hard? Grrrr…
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Have a great day/year!
~M*
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Got something like this http://garwarner.blogspot.com/2014/07/e-zpass-spam-leads-to-location-aware.html today. Very professional. Good job, spammers.
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Wait? What? What sort of spammer thinks that complimenting my "escarpment" is going to woo me?
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Wait? What? What sort of spammer thinks that complimenting my "escarpment" is going to woo me?
You took the time to look up "escarpment" so you're obviously not in their target market.
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You took the time to look up "escarpment" so you're obviously not in their target market.
Making it even worse, I had a rough approximation of what it meant before I even looked it up. Not truly precise, but good enough for casual conversation.
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Making it even worse, I had a rough approximation of what it meant before I even looked it up. Not truly precise, but good enough for casual conversation.
Would it have been better if the spammer had complemented you on your “orogenic uplift zone”?
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orogenic uplift zone
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Not so much. I would rather be told I have a nice escarpment.
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This one is clever -- I provide support for a number of older people in my fangroup, and this looks EXACTLY like the kind of error one of them might make when trying to email me. But it's spam.
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info@gmail.com?
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Yeah, that was one tipoff that it was spam. The other being I wasn't expecting an attachment from any of the Brians in our group.
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Also, what kind of Word document is only 51kB?
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Hello World?
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Hello World.docx (11.1 KB)