How lame is this.... (scam emails)
 

There are allways people trying to scam you out of your hard earned money. I have gotten some pritty lame emails trying, but this one relly rugs me. I never thought this crap was real... then I looked at the aol email :)

well here is the lattest email I got (it was marked as spam by gmail :D)

At least it isn't a Nigerian prince trying to peddle penis pills.

Pritty much... or another advertisement for breast enlargment (witch I don't have any :)

Not very lame - gmail's doing it's job and putting spam in it's appropriate place.

The question is, why are you reading it?

I'm pleased to say I hardly get any spam any more. Most of it is filtered properly, and the little that does get through is easy to identify as such, because the email addresses are usually nonsensical strings of alphanumeric garbage.

My favorites are always the ones that say 'someone has died in a plane crash and I'm their attorny trying to locate the proper heir to the hundred million dollars (or more) that they left behind... please be honest and let us know... we think its you though...' blah blah blah.

I set up a local bayesian anti-spam filter that catches most of my spam these days.

I'm going to see if I can implement a more flexible solution with fetchmail, procmail, and various other tools...

You know this occurs like commonplace, so I don't see the big idea. Hell, I've even heard of fake deaths just for some greens through donations and all that.

I remember receiving spam emails with some interesting subjects. There was one that said something along the lines of "You forgot to meet me on Tuesday, so let's schedule for another time." This was before my current Gmail account though.

You don't have enlargements or you don't have breasts? Because the latter is far more interesting than the former.

I work customer service at a bank and you wouldn't believe how many people fall for these things. I get at least a customer a week who gave out their account number and stuff to these companies and now have all this fraudulent activity on their accounts.

OF COURSE. Why didn't I think of this? Next time I enter the lotto I'm just going to scribble down *NUMBERS* on it. It's a sure fire one hundred percent bulletproof victory plan!

"And tonight's winning numbers are 6, 13, 8, 2, 22, 16 and supplementary numbers 30 and 4!"
"I WIN, I HAVE THE ALL THE *NUMBERS*"

Breasts :D I am a guy and they still send that stuff to me.....maby they are trying to tell me something. Like I need to become a female and get some big tits :P lol

To be honest, I find scam phones more annoying and irritating than scam emails. (Though you hardly get those if you live in the states or in Canada) Back when I was studying in college in Taiwan, I've gotten countless (yes, countless) scam phone/phone text saying how I 'owe' some bank money and that I should immidiately return the money or my bank accuont will be frozen. The first reaction of most people is usually "Huh? I don't owe the bank any money, what are you talking about?", then will give you a phone number and tell you that you've been scammed and you should phone that number which is supposely the police station. Oh the irony! Then once you call the "police station" with the number THEY provided to you, they will ask for your bank info (ie your bank account #), your personal questions etc (phone, address, name...) and eventually they will get a hold of your bank info etc and get the money. :gonk: There are also alot of other scam phones like "Congrats you just won this random lottery!" and there are even more ridicuously ones like how someone would phone you and start screaming "HELP ME MOM/DAD (depending on the voice of the person who picks up the phone) I GOT KIDNAPPED" and threaten you to pay or they will kill 'your son/daughter' that you never had.

Even though you're male, you still have breasts.

But people sending you advertisements for female breast enlargement is mildly humorous.

I would agree :)


Well they started to get a bit smarted :) They used a real domain to send the email from (not a aol addy) "powerballlottery.net"

It says pritty much the same this with a reply to emial being from yahoo.gr

I disided to check out the domin for kicks and giggles and got this

http://webpod.whois.ws/whois-net/ip-...lllottery.net/

Lol, I've gotten that one where I'm just the lucky winner, and then I'm like...I didn't enter anything. I find those hilarious. Oh, how about those sent from your friends email address and the first couple of sentences are normal but then it goes...."viagra 3 for 1" lol.

I'll look at my bulk folder now and then just for shits and giggles. My favorite was probably Sender: CONGRATULATIONS CONGRATULATIONS CONGRATULATIONS Subject: CONGRATULATIONS

I was like, "Gee, THANKS! :D *DELETED*"

There was also a time where I got 34958347 spam mails for Sam's Club gift cards, so I told my friend Sam to tell her club to stop sending me shit (because I'm lame like that). :B

I once got an E-mail asking me to confirm my PayPal pass word...
but I hadn't even used that E-mail address to sign up for anything, so obviously it was fake. I clicked it anyway, and right away FF and my firewall, and WOT started trying to tackle me off the site

Why would you read spam mail?? leave it alone, its annoying and a waste of such valuable fun time =P

I laughed so hard when I got an email from my agency's security office today, subject: "New Email Scam - Pay off Assassin or be Killed".

From the FBI:
http://www.fbi.gov/headlines/note011507.jpg

That is hilarious. Especially the part where it says "YES/NO" (reminds me of my middle school days: 'Do you like me? Circle Yes/No')

I usually use my gmail and school account, so I rarely see any scan e-mails. They're incredibly irritating, and I wouuld love to write a witty response, but then that shows that your e-mail is valid or whatever, and keep sending you shit.

Anyone remember that website that has a ton of Nigerian prince scams examples? They were awesomely funny.

I rarely get spam anymore. Thunderbird does a good job of filtering that shit both at home and at work. I don't even bother reading the ones that slip through - I never find them very funny. ;_;

I think it was Ulysses who had linked to a hilarious site that totally spins shit on the Nigerian scams, though. I wish I remember which site it was. Maybe he will show up and post it! =D (Its great reading!)