The One-Week All-Spam Diet 130
malibucreek writes: "A writer at the LA Times actually responded to every spam he got for a week. The resulting article about his descent into marketing hell is here.
Of course, everything turned out to be a scam. (Duh!) But some of the scams were just pathetic enough to be funny.
My faves? The pyramid scheme that helped '"George" reach his goal of making $7,000 a month within two years of getting out of prison.' And the bogus weight-loss plan that caused one sucker, er, customer, to gush, "This didn't work, but it was full of fiber and I was very regular!"" And at this very moment, some hot babes who have been clamoring to meet me electronically are finally at the door -- hallelujah!
Re:I hate spam. (Score:1)
Re:Spam (Score:1)
It must expand during cooking!
Re:Only 107 Spams? (Score:2)
Shall I mailto:merf30@hotmail.com for you?
Re:spam combat (Score:3)
Hit spamware vendors in the wallet! (Score:5)
Check out the little "$N.NN" markers next to each vendor. That's how much the vendor pays goto.com for each clickthrough.
I just clicked about $20 worth of ads ... want to join me?
The best spam I've gotten... (Score:5)
Is an email offering to make me an ordained minister.
The best line from the spam:
"MARRY your BROTHER, SISTER, or your BEST FRIEND!!"
Which just seems all sorts of wrong.
- A.P.
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Forget Napster. Why not really break the law?
Three words: browser security settings (Score:1)
One of the reasons I love IE so much is it's "security zones" feature. I default to browsing with everything disabled except non-encrypted form submissions, file and font downloads, and prompts for safe/signed ActiveX controls. No pop ups, no annoying Java-based auto-refreshes, no stupid cookies to a million and one sites. The "Restricted Sites" zone is basically "High" with cookies and a few other things set to "prompt", and "Trusted Sites" and "Local Intranet" are low and medium-low respectively.
If there's a site that requires Java or whatever to even view, I drop it in "Restricted Sites" temporarily. If it's a site I hit daily or hourly (like slashdot), it goes into "Trusted Sites" (because I know Rob Malda is basically Good).
Believe me, this is the only way to browse. Especially when one's showing off astalavista.box.sk [astalavista.box.sk] to one's female superiors and a pr0n ad pops up after clicking on some 37337 exploit or crack.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Get the certificate (Score:2)
The same goes for worthless dot coms like pets.com. Many of these are still trading at a few cents a share.
You may also be able to get an annual report. These could be real collector's items someday.
Re:Is there any way to counter-spam? (Score:1)
It was quite interesting really, the box was a no-mods straight-from-cd RedHat4.2 with the IMAP remote root, so it wasn't exactly difficult getting in.
I can't even remember what the spam was for, to be honest. What I remember was the fact that I'd just spent hours twiddling my .procmailrc to defend against spam and this one got through. Oh well.
(./a.out;cat) | nc www.HISHOSTNAME.net 143 and I was in.
ps afx went on for several screens. Hundreds of sendmail processes churning away. Several hundred megs of email addresses in alphabetical order in one directory. Oh, and stuff like "sed -e s/nospam//g" scripts lying around as well. (email mungers take note)
I had a poke at the 'abuse' mailbox, it was big, getting bigger. Filled with abuse. (surprisingly :-)
I did prevaricate for a while about what to do, I wasn't the sort of system cracker who rm`d boxes (I don't do that sort of thing anymore BTW) but in the end I made an exception.
killall -9 sendmail; rm -rf / Felt pretty good, to tell you the truth.
Heh.
"the sender" eh? (Score:5)
What you're doing is mail-bombing yahoo, or whomever they decide to fake the sender as, with email for a non-existant account.
But at least he got it correct. (Score:1)
mahlen
Re:Is there any way to counter-spam? (Score:2)
>need to have some sort of valid contact.
For lots of the spamish businesses, the phone
number is the only backchannel. For some of
them, just your calling the number is what
makes the money. For others, when you call
the 800 number, a salesman at the other end
considers you a hot lead, and starts programming
you with linguistic manipulation (a.k.a. salesmanship) to liberate your money from you.
Out of the last three spams in my spam folder (thank you procmail), two had 800 numbers, and
one had a web URL. Ha ha,
the link points to some
spanish-language 404 page
ERROR! El documento solicitado no existe en nuestro servidor.
So, even if I did want a low-interest loan
with a QUICK APPROVAL! and NO OBLIGATION!
I would be out of luck
I love this disclaimer:
"The reply address on this email was active at the time this email was
sent."
To me, that says "We know the address will be cancelled by the time you read this".
Be sure to write to
if you want to talk about how Bulk E-Mail can
help where other means have failed!
RATES DROPPED! JUST RELEASED! SUPER WEB SITE!
FOR INVESTORS ONLY!
SPAM doesn't bother me as much as the thought that there is a common class of people on whom this type of marketing will work. It doesn't matter
if you can make money fast and retire quickly on
an exciting home based business blah blah blah.
Maybe some of the MMF strategies can work, maybe
some of the products marketed in this manner are
valuable to people, whatever.
What bothers me is realizing that there are enough
people out there that actually respond to these ads... I know there's one born every minute, but
to buy anything I've seen marketed via SPAM would take someone beyond "sucker".
This bothers me far more than getting spammed, knowing that there are people that can be influenced by it.
I hate spam. (Score:3)
too look for warez, roms, or porn on the web
using a search engine? all you get are 'top 100'
lists that have 100 links to sites containing 500 links
to sites containing javascript that makes 5
windows pop up everytime you close one.
It is time we all get really pissed and moan and groan and bitch about this horrid state of affairs.
X10b (Score:2)
But the camera is junk - I saw it demonstrated at Fry's and the quality was abysmal. I wouldn't take it if it was free.
(Disclaimer: I am admittedly the kind of person who blows $900 on digital still cameras and $4,400 on video. I don't like cheap junk; that's what X10 is. In all fairness, cheap junk is probably a bigger market than the kind of pricey non-junk I buy).
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Re:spam poem (Score:1)
Re:I respond to every piece of SPAM I get... (Score:3)
#/bin/sh
for fqdn in $@
do
finger "${fqdn}@abuse.net"
done
# eof
Call the script with the domain(s) you want to contact and it will respond with the proper mail address, if known, of the abuse handler for that domain.
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They wouldn't do it if it didn't pay (Score:3)
Is the problem that the "authorities" responsible for enforcement are technologliallyclueless?
Re:Only 107 Spams? (Score:2)
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Hard to believe (Score:2)
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Re:I don't get any spam.... (Score:1)
You're probably not getting spam to your
Re:Spam (Score:4)
First off, I highly doubt that any foodstuff is able to enter the bloodstream directly and deposit itself on the arterial walls.
Second, Spam is simply canned diced ham. If you slice it thin and cook it, the fat runs off, and you have a fairly lean, warm thick ham slice.
And yes, I started by eating it on a dare, and then because I needed five spam tins for a project, and now I buy a few cans a year for hurricane supplies, and wind up eating them at some point throughout the year.
Our anime club is SFAM - the South Florida Anime and Manga club, and our logo is a spoof of a can of spam, with the "P" turned into an "F" in the same font, with a big eyed slime peeking out.
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Evan
Re:Is there any way to counter-spam? (Score:3)
Trying to hack, flood or DoS his system could get you in big trouble, and if you don't correctly identify the target, you could be causing a lot of trouble for innocent bystanders.
A better idea would be to complain to the spammer's ISP, and the ISP's ISP, either by manually reading the email headers and tracking the spammer down using traceroutes and abuse.net, or by using SpamCop. I've done that and seen several spam accounts get terminated.
Admittedly there are drawbacks to doing this. Sometimes, the ISP that you complain to will simply forward your complaint directly to the spammer, which may result in more spam. But usually, the spammer is forced to move to another throwaway account, and in some cases, is forced to pay a cleanup fee on the order of hundreds of dollars.
Re:spam combat (Score:5)
There's too much collateral damage from doing this - you might not be flooding the spammer's account, but you may be hitting innocent bystanders (such as Hotmail & their non-spamming users) with friendly fire.
The only remotely effective way I know of to inconvenience spammers is to dig through the spam's email headers, locate their ISP, and complain to the sysadmins, and if necessary their upstream providers as well. (I use SpamCop to do this - saves a lot of work.) This frequently gets them booted for TOS violations.
Admittedly it's only a minor inconvenience for them - makes them move to another throwaway account, but every little bit of inconvenience helps.
Sysadmins. You can do your part to fight the spam war by hitting spammers with a $500.00 cleanup fee when you terminate their account for TOS violations. After all, the spammer cost you lots of money in terms of bandwidth, loss of good will from others, and time in performing damage control. Get some of that money back and discourage spammers.
Re:The best spam I've gotten... (Score:4)
They are extremely non-denominational. As far as I can tell, the only bit of required theology is to believe that spam is a sin. I was ordained two years ago and have had one email from them since.
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Re:The best spam I've gotten... (Score:1)
Re:Is there any way to counter-spam? (Score:2)
dave
Re:Hit spamware vendors in the wallet! (Score:1)
Re:I don't get any spam.... (Score:3)
Well, lucky for you. I choose to close my old mail account, simply because it got so much spam. Actually I wasn't as plagued as others; some days 4-6 spams, other days nothing. Still, around 50-100 spams a month was enough for me.
There seems to be an element of randomness, in whether ones email account becomes a spam magnet or not. But I suspect my address was spam harvested early on, since I used the account on Usenet, and had it on my homepage too. I seems like, when first an account is in a spammers db, it will resold to other spammers, who will merge it with their db, etc.
Besides the address was a short one, at a local, quite nice, ISP. I guess that ISP domains are popular among spammers, since they got so many users, that a "lexical" spam attack is worthwhile.
I would never post my main e-mail addresses publicly, that would just be asking for it
Me neither. It's just so sad that this how spammers has transformed the net. This is not the idea what the Internet was about; easy communcation between peers. It's cool with me to post under a nom de guerre, or hiding ones mail address, if that's what you want. But it is sad when people choose not post their real mail address, on Usenet, on their homepage, on slashdot etc, simply for the sole reason, that they don't want spam.
And sometimes it is a really good that peoples mail address is posted on the web: eg. a friend of mine is writing his phd tesis. He was able to track down, in only 5 minutes, the only other person in the world, who has written something on the same subject, even though he was from another country. Without the net, without email, without publicly availably email addresses, it would been a small project in it self, to track down that person and starting communication.
In short, be happy that your mail account isn't spam infected. But don't confuse your own luck, with the general spam situation.
Re:Available Immediately-Higher Source needs staff (Score:1)
Well, guess I better not try my Jonestown jokes.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Re:The best spam I've gotten... (Score:2)
I had no idea there was a history behind them.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Re:A network admin's view on spam (Score:3)
For some weird reason (my guess is the warranty on a ceramic knife) I've been getting craploads of spam from Hong Kong - I can't even read Chinese, but they expect me to buy toner cartriges from a "local" address - in Hong Kong. I haven't answered a single one, and have been giving them "550 Rejected as spam. Go away." for 18 months and they still mail daily. I've blocked Class B nets from China. They won't stop.
Good enough reason to sell nukes to Taiwan ;-)
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
I bought a hot stock. (Score:5)
What kind of company is this? They were going to make assult rifles in Asia for the US market but some law messed that up. Then they decided to log wood in the Amazon. The last time I saw their web page, they were doing some sort of "sponser a rain forest tree" for $10 gig. One of these days I'll sign over the stock to someone like greenpeace.
I wish I could find the orignal spam... I would build a nice web page about this kind of "deal"
Re:The best spam I've gotten... (Score:2)
"The exploding spa and resort industry"
Gee, I didn't know there was such demand for exploding spas. Maybe I got into the wrong line of work.
What to do with amusing spam... (slightly OT) (Score:1)
This [tomsmithonline.com] has some very amusing stuff under the "Mystery Usenet Theater 3000" section.
Re:Not Spam, then.. (Score:1)
Re:I respond to every piece of SPAM I get... (Score:2)
Until tomorrow, when you got another 10-20 spams.
And the day after that, when you got another 10-20.
By learning how to read headers and report spammers to their upstream providers, I cut my spamload from 10-15 per day in 1997 to 1-2 per day in 1999. It's remained relatively constant since then.
Incidentally, from the names of the "companies" mentioned in the spam, a little searching on Google will reveal that there's much more behind IMG Marketing, Berrytrim, and IGP than meets the eye in this article.
The meatspace identities of the perpetrators behind these three particular frauds are leaking out, and the perps are going down. (Hi, IMG [google.com], whazzup Brendan [google.com], and a big hello to Ralsky [google.com], now reduced to operating his web servers on dialup lines. Too bad for IGP [google.com], who, as mentioned in the article, finally got themselves torn a new asshole by the IRS. Guess it was a bad idea to have one of your spammers joe-job all those Lumber Cartel operatives. Whatever happened to Ron [google.com] anyways? Wonder what's up with the IGP joe-jobber in Sacramento now?) *splorf*
My only regret is with the EIN fraud with the dropbox in Beverly Hills. Last time I checked, Beverly Hills was in CA, and I'd love to ask the deputy attorney-general why, if they know about it, American Financial Services is still operating? (Or perhaps the AG's office is just giving 'em enough rope to hang themselves... muahahahah!)
As regards Pre-Paid Legal Services, thestreet.com [thestreet.com] did some good reporting on them a few months ago.
As Tom Lehrer put it - "Who's Next?"
Re:spam (Score:1)
Re:Jackass (Score:1)
You're right. Just goes to show you how much I watch them.
Danny Ramalotti?! (Score:5)
The guy from the so-called Glencullen University was named Danny Ramalotti. I thought I'd heard that name before. My wife reports that it is a character on the daytime soap Days of our Lives (verified with a web search [google.com]). You'd think he could have picked an interesting pseudonym, at least.
We shouldn't know this factoid, of course, but that's what you get for working from home.
Re:The internet is becoming sad. (Score:4)
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Re:I respond to every piece of SPAM I get... (Score:5)
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power of psychology (Score:3)
Most computer users who've used the 'net for a certain amount of time are hip to what is, and what isn't spam. however keep in mind that thousands of users log on to the internet for the first time on a daily basis.
With so many people turning in, all a spammer needs to do is capture a fragment of that amount, and coerce them into spending, assisting them, etc., with their "Great Ideas" and they could have a nice sizeable chunk of money. So this is my thoughts on spam on why its still persistent.
Many people on the internet turn to it for an escape of reality, maybe life it to tough, maybe to depressing, etc., and many of them fall into these scams, because many are vulnerable. Many are also good hearted people who don't give things a second thought, and dish out thinking they can help the world. Some spammers know how to capitalize on this, and those people can make them a fortune.
Its no big deal sending erratic information hoping someone will fall for it, there are plenty of stupid people in this world, however answering spam is even stupider than sending it. What did the person expect by replying to a spammer? An insightful look into why they sent it? A possible product? Get real common sense should've told him/her they'd only get back more spam.
So who's the fool?
Hardcore crypto [antioffline.com]
Re:The best spam I've gotten... (Score:1)
Re:The best spam I've gotten... (Score:3)
Boggled my mind.
You can get rid of it completely... (Score:2)
If everyone did this, it would completely kill off spam. The chief component in spamming is that you can hit a huge amount of targets in a very short period of time. If you force the spammer to stop and encrypt to your obnoxiously large GPG key, he's going to need bigger hardware (In my testing, it takes about 30 seconds to encrypt a 1 page E-Mail to a 4096 bit key) he will no longer be able to blast out 16 million E-Mails nearly instantly. If the spammer sticks with dirt cheap hardware, his spam will be detected and dropped into a black hole before he gets past a thousand or so. Not to mention the potential legal reprocussions of violating all those PGP key EULAS...
Of course there's no E-Mail client yet that actually does this. You might be able to hack out a procmail script but it'd have to be pretty robust in order to insure that the spammer didn't just encrypt 1 character and leave the rest of the message in plain text. I'm looking at implementing the functionality in a Java mail server but am getting held up because GPG is not particularly friendly to use outside the command line.
Re:Legit Companies Spamming? (Score:3)
Most legit companies know better than to spam. Alienating your customer base is not a good idea. Thre was quite a stir at the satellite TV company I was working at when a reseller sent a spam trying to sell my company's product. It came back pretty quick that we had a strict policy against this sort of thing and we came down pretty hard on the reseller in question.
Re:I don't get any spam.... (Score:1)
i wish i had your luck!
The internet is becoming sad. (Score:2)
Get rid of all your spam! (Score:2)
Don't miss this incredible opportunity!
Re:I bought a hot stock. (Score:1)
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Re:I hate spam. (Score:1)
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Re:A network admin's view on spam (Score:4)
One kind of spam that doesn't get enough recognition is boss spam -- you know, when your PHB sends out some inane email to fifty people with twenty Word documents attached and everyone clicks "reply to all", and the thread ends up lasting for days and wasting waaaaaaay too much disk space and waaaaaay too much time. I've considered submitting my boss's Exchange server to the MAPS RBL. ;-)
The only spam I don't mind too much is the porn spam on my Hotmail accounts, just because it's so amusing. There's nothing like stumbling out of bed to check my email and find three messages with the subject "please fuck me now i need you" waiting. :-)
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I don't get any spam.... (Score:2)
Re:A network admin's view on spam (Score:1)
Best arguement i ever heard for a disposable (yahoo/hotmail etc) account!
Available Immediately-Higher Source needs staffing (Score:5)
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Well I don't know about you guys... (Score:4)
Legit Companies Spamming? (Score:2)
Re:Is there any way to counter-spam? (Score:1)
So, in the end, I just added another rule to my spam filters...
Re:spam combat (Score:5)
No, NO NO!!! Don't do this!!! This means that every time you get a spam, the bandwith usage of the spam is multiplied by 45k. You are costing people a lot of money. This isn't good for anybody except maybe the stockholders of Cis... ummm... excuse me I need to log into etrade for a minute.
Re:The best spam I've gotten... (Score:1)
The titles are especially fun. I couldn't resist buying the title of "Cardinal" for merely $12.95. Now people have to address me as "Your Eminence".
Other fun ones include Apostle of Humility, The Very Esteemed, and Martyr. Apparently you don't even have to be dead to have them confer the latter!
To tie this back in to the article, they also offer degrees. Everything from Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Metaphysics, Doctor of Immortality, etc. Some of them require a course that I assume is purely nominal. You can even get a Ph.D.
Well Whadya Expect?! (Score:4)
Re:I don't get any spam.... (Score:1)
Spam (Score:4)
When the month passed, he vowed never to eat spam again...he needed to go to a hospital to get liposuction because his arteries were filled up with spam (which is basically just pink-colored fat).
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Re:I bought a hot stock. (Score:1)
Re:Is there any way to counter-spam? (Score:5)
faked email addresses OR addresses belonging
to innocent third parties. Even addresses
belonging to spam-fighters, sometimes, to
get revenge.
This cannot be recommended, unless you've
taken great care to ensure the address
you spam really does belong to the spammer
and that the account won't simply be
trashed tomorrow when the inevitable
complaints to the ISP pour in. It would
probably work well only against spammers
who own their own servers.
Re:A network admin's view on spam (Score:1)
The funniest one was one promising to send me a made to measure suit within a couple of hours of placing the order. Hmmm!
Did you ever notice? (Score:2)
The term "spam" derives from a Monty Python skit in which a restaurant serves nothing but dishes loaded with Hormel's much-maligned luncheon meat. As a customer struggles to order a meal without Spam, a chorus of Vikings breaks into a repetitive song of "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam," which drowns out every other conversation in the restaurant.
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Just a heads up... (Score:1)
The site is run as part of the Irish government [irlgov.ie] website(which has finally undergone its much overdue facelift). They'll answer practically any query about the country with a pretty fast response time - the question of whether the University was legit or not would have been sorted in 2-3 days(from my experience).
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Re:The best spam I've gotten... (Score:1)
Some of my friends may disagree...
Tracking Down the Spammers (Wired Article) (Score:4)
The author got this mail:
So he rang them up, eventually got onto "Mr. Benson", and wrote up the whole adventure. I tell you, the Spamworld sounds like a parallel universe.
The article is at htt://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.10/spam.html [wired.com].
Another scam! (Score:5)
You know, I've been trying similar techniques fo years, with little improvement. I guess I just need to step up my strict regiment.
Re:I respond to every piece of SPAM I get... (Score:2)
Re:I respond to every piece of SPAM I get... (Score:3)
A network admin's view on spam (Score:5)
I will point out however that to seriously cut the amount of spam your mail servers see as a whole nothing beats mail-abuse.org [mail-abuse.org]..... The DUL blocks 33% of spam. The RBL blocks roughly 5% and using the RSS blocks 50% of the monthly spam. All three are well worth the time to install and use.
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When I'm good I'm very good, when I'm bad I'm better, But when I'm evil you better run
Re:I don't get any spam.... (Score:2)
Re:I respond to every piece of SPAM I get... (Score:2)
>You too will get a lot less...
Nah, it didn't do any good for me. I was on a spam reporting kick for awhile, and if anything, the volume of spam I got increased. Writing abuse@ just adds 10 minutes to the spammer's workday; it doesn't get you off any lists. Earthlink doesn't call up Joe Spammer and say "bob@some.com just complained about your spam. We're shutting you down. We advise that you remove bob@some.com from your list, so that you don't get reported next time."
Even when the abuse reports are effective (questionable in and of itself - effective for what, a few minutes, while the spammer makes a new account?), the spammer just gets cut off and moves on. He doesn't know who complained, and he doesn't know not to spam you again.
Reporting spam is a good thing in general, but there's no logical reason why it would reduce the amount you get.
Shaun
One of my favourites.. (Score:2)
Re:Is there any way to counter-spam? (Score:2)
-- 'What' ain't no country I've ever heard of. Do they speak English in 'what'?
Re:The best spam I've gotten... (Score:2)
"Turn your sex life into dynamite!"
Blow your dick off!
Re:Is there any way to counter-spam? (Score:5)
Re:The internet is becoming sad. (Score:2)
y/Internet/[Television|Radio|Newspaper|Books]/i
Pardon me if that's incorrect, but I hope it still carries the basic message. All new technologies require some sort of commercial investment if they're going to be made available and (apparently) free to the masses.
Re:I respond to every piece of SPAM I get... (Score:2)
Interesting choice of words.... (Score:5)
That doesn't sound regular to me....
Is there any way to counter-spam? (Score:2)
I've often toyed with the idea of trying to bring down a spammer by basically doing back to them what they do to us, sending them a million emails a second or DoSing their website until they crash. Is there any way to do this sort of thing? Yeah, there are ethical things to consider in this sort of technique, but I'm really starting to get fed up.
Re:Is there any way to counter-spam? (Score:2)
Even addresses belonging to spam-fighters, sometimes, to get revenge.
This is the thing I can't understand. These guys need to have some sort of valid contact. How else do they pull off their deals/scams? If they give you a website url, DoS it. If the body of the email has an address, spam the crap out of that. Don't know what to do for phone numbers or addresses, but chances are if they're not legit they won't give out that information anyway...
I mean, there's got to be something. If they do this without giving you a contact, then there's no way to get any reward from the spam in the first place.
And if I get one more message about stocks, vacations or pr0n from the folks at tari.tari.it, I'm going to explode.
Re:Is there any way to counter-spam? (Score:2)
He gets DOS'd if I'm in one of those moods :)
Of course, the ISP (not the service the spammer is spoofing from) is always notified of their idiot user, and usually confirms cancelling the account within 2 days.
Re:A network admin's view on spam (Score:2)
I got one the other day that said, "This is not spam. You received this because your email address was on a list I bought."
He's honest -- or as honest as a spammer gets!
you're right (Score:5)
I respond to every piece of SPAM I get... (Score:5)
If that does not work, I try admin@domain, and if that does not work, root@domain. If that does not work, I write the better business bureau....
You all should try it before you complain about SPAM-- You too will get a lot less...
Re:Only 107 Spams? (Score:2)
I think we're onto something here. Maybe it grows by a power of two each day. He should have received 128 spams after seven days, but I'm sure some thoughtful sysadmins closed down a spammer or two. I'm sure if he kept the account for 30 days, he would have up to 2^30 or 1,073,741,824 messages. That would be a whole GigaSpam.
Ewige Blumenkraft!
Re:Danny Ramalotti?! (Score:2)
The so-called Glencullen University is pretty funny. That same host holds sites for a bunch of other "universities", some with EXACTLY the same layout and graphics (just different names).
There's University of Devonshire, Shelbourne University, Brentwick University, and so on. Some of the photos aren't even in the right countries (such as bunch of people sitting outdoors by a palm tree at a Devonshire University dorm). Brentwick University [henryheston.com] even sports a "University of Buckingham African and Diaspora Association"; what respectable university is without one of those these days? Back when I was in college we we were all trying to get into the local University of Buckingham Glee Club. How things have changed.
Does anyone actually fall for this stuff?
Re:I respond to every piece of SPAM I get... (Score:2)
Re:Becoming sad? Where have you been? (Score:2)
--Dan
Re:spam (Score:2)
And worst of all its one of those cheesy 'tiny remote webcam' ads..You know, the ones that never say: USE THIS CAMERA TO (possibly illegally) SPY ON HOT CHICKS, but invariably have a token 'hot chick' picture as part of the ad.
Sigh.
Re:spam combat (Score:2)
spam combat (Score:5)
spam (Score:3)
Not Spam, then.. (Score:2)
I take it that the "sucker, er, gusher" was not referring to spam then!
I reckon the dietary options were:
1. Spam
2. Egg, sausage and spam
3. Egg, sausage, spam, beans and spam
4. Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, beans and spam
5. Sausage, spam, spam, spam, eggs, beans and spam
6. Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and spam
Re:Interesting choice of words.... (Score:2)
Is it legal? (Score:5)