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I got some spam today in my inbox. Suprised actually, i have not used it hardly.
One question: I have set a server side filter to silently discard all mail from this particular domain, because i thought rejecting the mailsmight cause them to send via a new domain and so on. What is the best way to deal with spam on here?
Make the lives of Bottom Feeders miserable with this one weird trick!
When they want to know your phone number, enter: 911
That way the unwanted telemarketers end up causing trouble in their local emergency services office, and they get in trouble really fast.
Actually, i have forwarded spam to the <hahemm> FBI before. :) Really! lol I got a am email supposedly from the US Gov/ FBI and as it was sortta convincing almost went and looked for a spam/scam forwarding address on their official website. Sure enough it's there on the front page of the FBI site. Never got a reply.
I had a spat of spam from highjacked paypal domains (if thats the term?) Very convincing (well almost again, but they were from paypal.com ) and they did , on a few occasions get back telling me they were - indeed - phishing attempts.
As for the spam from Africa trying to dupe you into silly schemes: is there really any intelligent adults falling for this kinda stuff? :D
Maybe it's just to keep my inbox sane with a bit of light humour? :)
OK! Thanks for the tip IG. :]
I'll forward on any mail to the emergency services! I'm sure they will see the funny side, especially on a saturday night! :D
As for the spam from Africa trying to dupe you into silly schemes:
is there really any intelligent adults falling for this kinda stuff?
Evidently there are, because if it always failed, they'd stop doing it.
Think about that for a moment: every type of bottom feeding scumbag activity ... whether it's spam, scams, phishing, the existence of Facebook, etc ... continues to exist because someone, somewhere, is falling for it. Opening up their wallets or identities and feeding the scumbags.
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and he just emptied your bank account.
I'd say, the kind of person who would fall for such scams, is the kind of person who hasn't got any money to swindle.
hmmmm, I wonder if they could easily write some code to eliminate that problemof someone entering 911.
Of course they can. I'm hoping they don't.
Hello my Name is miss Justin Yak Dorris, i desire that you will
be my foreign partner for declaration of something important relating to
me that may interest you and seek for your advice and support for my
Actual spam received this morning. I can't *wait* to meet "Miss Justin Yak Dorris."
Oh my, I just got a robo-call on my cell phone telling me that my student loan has been flagged for a rate reduction!
Needless to say I found this *very* interesting, since I worked my ass off during summer/winter breaks and finished college 22 years ago with no financial debt. A rate reduction from zero must mean that decades of compound interest on a less-than-zero debt must be coming my way!
Sadly, when I pressed "1" to be connected, all representatives were busy and I was instructed to leave a message. I do hope my wishes come true.
Tue Feb 03 2015 11:22:43 EST from IGnatius T Foobar
Oh my, I just got a robo-call on my cell phone telling me that my student loan has been flagged for a rate reduction!
Needless to say I found this *very* interesting, since I worked my ass off during summer/winter breaks and finished college 22 years ago with no financial debt. A rate reduction from zero must mean that decades of compound interest on a less-than-zero debt must be coming my way!
Sadly, when I pressed "1" to be connected, all representatives were busy and I was instructed to leave a message. I do hope my wishes come true.
I used to love it when mortgage brokers called my house as a kid- my parents lived in Army housing or parsonages my entire childhood, and by the time my dad retired, he'd put away enough to buy their house outright.
I actually fell for a phishing scam.
Thankfully the only thing that was compromised was my Twitter account.
I didn't really know what her tweeting style was like so I followed a link that I thought she had sent me, thinking it was a response to a smart-ass comment I'd just sent to her ("as for me, I like *all 360* directions").
As it turns out, the link was to a Twitter account phishing site. She had fallen for it, and so did I, and so did my son.
The problem is that we were all on mobile, and it's not uncommon to get sent to m.twitter.com instead of the app when you click a link from the notification area. And of course, mobile browsers now scroll away the Location box so it's not quite as obvious that something is wrong.
Thankfully, Twitter suspended my account a few minutes later after detecting suspicious activity.
Just go full-on crazy.