Originally Posted By onlyme It's amazing the weird stuff I get in my spam folder. Besides the usual 'dysfuntional' and 'enlargement' ones(you know what I mean), I get the oddest things written in the subject line... Howard took a call from Eric the Midget who said he heard Robin make a comment a... for Development and ProductionBuilt on Open Source Project GlassFish. Re: grease = trigonometri Re: gauz separabilit Ok, you get the point. Who writes this stuff? What language are they speaking? Do people actually respond to these emails?
Originally Posted By RoadTrip I've received spam that is total garbage... at times it seems like someone has taken a paragraph out of a science or history book and e-mailed it. My theory is that they are sending this stuff out to collect valid e-mail addresses. I always just delete it without opening it (I get an idea of the contents from my preview pane). P.S. I’ve received spam advertising both male lower enhancement and female upper enhancement. I wish they could at least decide which version I am.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <I’ve received spam advertising both male lower enhancement> At first reading, I thought that meant male lowering-enhancement...as in, how to lower your enhancement. I thought, what kinda guy would go after that? lol
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<At first reading, I thought that meant male lowering-enhancement...as in, how to lower your enhancement. I thought, what kinda guy would go after that? lol>> Yea, I certainly wouldn't sign up to be any lower. Though frankly, I don't know that I'd want to be real tall either (no offense). You may have an easier time attracting the hotter babes, but you don't fit nearly as well in cars or beds!! LOL P.S. I have such a great personality I have no problem attracting the hotter babes. My wife is about as hot as they come! ;-)
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Well I meant lowering enhancement for...er...enhancement. LOL But yeah, thanks for rubbin' it in that you can sleep in any bed, sit in any car, and (though you didn't point it out) stretch out in any tub. With LPers like you, who needs enemies! ;-P
Originally Posted By alexbook >>Ok, you get the point. Who writes this stuff? What language are they speaking? Do people actually respond to these emails?<< It's pretty easy to write a program to send out e-mails with random sequences of English words in the subject line. Some spammers think that people are more likely to open such messages than ones with more explicit subject lines. Also, they're harder for automated spam filters to block. Depending on what kind of software you're using to protect yourself, sometimes all they need is to get you to open the message and it'll automatically do something nefarious to your computer. 'nuut or avromark can probably supply you with details on how to protect yourself.
Originally Posted By alexbook P.S. I always get a kick out of seeing a subject line like "Re: %RAND". This indicates to me that somebody's random-word generator is buggy.
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS When I get those, Alex, I just take it as they are cursing at me ha ha
Originally Posted By Dznygrl Heh, I used to get these bizarre emails all the time, not so much anymore. There was a time when all the titles would be random phrases that sounded like they came out of a book, such as "'You know you can't drink', she said to him coldly." I was going to collect a whole bunch of them and form some kind of story using just spam email titles, but then for some reason they stopped coming. Too bad, it would have made a great website.
Originally Posted By onlyme >>"'You know you can't drink', she said to him coldly."<< LOL! I swear, I got that one last week More and more of these emails are creeping their way into my regular mail. These ppl are sneaky. But, I really don't see the point of these 'companies' sending these things out. Like I said, are there really people who respond to these moronic things?? Seems like they're just wasting their time.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo One day I got a flood of emails saying "I want to be your nanny, here's why I'm qualified blah blah blah" I thought it was some bizarre new form of adult solicitation. Then I get a frantic email from a poor mom who happens to have three children under the age of two, who set up an email with a name very like mine, and advertised for a nanny in several college papers. Obviously when she placed the ad, she put in the wrong email. I forwarded them all to her. Guess I felt sympathetic or something. So if you think it's bad getting spam, try getting somebody else's mail along with yours!
Originally Posted By alexbook Suppose one person in 50,000 buys what the spammer is selling. It costs as little as $25 to send out 1 million messages, which would result in 20 sales. If the product costs $10, they've made $175. Another way that spammers make money is by selling lists of "verified" e-mail addresses to other would-be spammers. If you open spam e-mail, even without clicking on any of the links in it, you may be sending a response back to the spammer indicating that the message got through, thus verifying that the address is active. Then there's the stock promotion spam. By sending out a huge amount of spam plugging a particular stock's prospects, they're hoping that a few people will buy the stock. If it's a small-cap stock, it doesn't take a lot of purchases to cause a significant jump in the stock's price. Here are a couple of articles on the subject: <a href="http://ask.yahoo.com/20050103.html" target="_blank">http://ask.yahoo.com/20050103. html</a> <a href="http://www.proofpoint.com/lab/why.php" target="_blank">http://www.proofpoint.com/lab/ why.php</a>
