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Where they come from they are the authorities.
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"MattB" wrote: It isn't? I always thought it was too good to be true if it sounded that way. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I could care less. Or maybe I couldn't care less. Whatever. |
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Question?
I get emails in which people ask me to respond if I ship to nigeria and if I take credit cards. weird since I don't sell anything, but what are these people fishing for? |
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I get emails in which people ask me to respond if I ship to nigeria and if I take credit cards. weird since I don't sell anything, but what are these people fishing for? They get the goods and they pay with someone else's credit card. -- David Damerell Distortion Field! Today is Second Teleute, July. |
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Quoting GWood :
I have set up dozens of email filter rules via Outlook, so most get routed to the bit bucket on the way in. Interesting that the spammers will go to the effort of trying to mask the text in their mails (i.e. substituting "1" for "i" and similar pattern matching) to try to fool the email filters. As if someone (or company) who deliberately filters the original trash will actually change their minds when the doctored email gets through the filter? Well, yes. Imagine a company that filters the junk; get through the filters, you can spam the suckers amongst the employees. Lots of people don't know about all the filtering on their mail, and some of them are suckers. -- David Damerell Distortion Field! Today is Second Teleute, July. |
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On 27 Jul 2005 14:31:59 +0100 (BST), David Damerell
wrote: Quoting GWood : I have set up dozens of email filter rules via Outlook, so most get routed to the bit bucket on the way in. Interesting that the spammers will go to the effort of trying to mask the text in their mails (i.e. substituting "1" for "i" and similar pattern matching) to try to fool the email filters. As if someone (or company) who deliberately filters the original trash will actually change their minds when the doctored email gets through the filter? Well, yes. Imagine a company that filters the junk; get through the filters, you can spam the suckers amongst the employees. Lots of people don't know about all the filtering on their mail, and some of them are suckers. A year or two back some gal, an accountant at a California law firm embezzled something like 200 LARGE when she got bit by a Nigerian scam. She was going to pay it all back as soon as she got the "AMOUNT OF FOURTY-SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS LEFT IN THE ACCOUNT OF THE SOUTHERN NIGERIAN PETROLEUM TRUST TRANSFERRED TO YOUR BANK FOR CLEARANCE." Gotta believe the scammers repeat that story among themselves and pray for a score like that. Ron |
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"David Damerell" wrote in message ... Quoting : I get emails in which people ask me to respond if I ship to nigeria and if I take credit cards. weird since I don't sell anything, but what are these people fishing for? They get the goods and they pay with someone else's credit card. -- David Damerell Distortion Field! Today is Second Teleute, July. There was a big scam going around a few months ago. I had a frame for sale on the craigslist and was contacted by a person many times by email that they would send me a check for $5,000, and I was to extract from that, the cost of the frame and send the remaining balance back by Western Union. I knew it was a scam and tried to get the person to send the check so I could get a good look at it and hopes to turn this person in, but the check never came. -tom |
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On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:55:38 -0600, MattB
wrote: It must work on someone or they would just dry up for lack of business. I'm amazed when I think about that. Even if it was something I really wanted, I would not respond to spam (in a serious way) for anything. I'd try to buy from a non-spamming competitor. The economies of scale for spamming are unlike any other advertising method. Because the sender bears virtually none of the cost of delivery (and the recipient bears *more* in virtually all cases), spammers can afford to send literally millions of spam emails per day. Some send millions *per hour*. If they get a response rate in the range of one thousandth of a percent, they may still make money. Of course, there are multiple reasons not to buy from a spammer. First and most important, spamming is itself theft; it makes unauthorized use of computer time and resources, without authorization, to deliver the spam. Buying from a spammer is supporting that theft. Second, spammers are not a reputable source for *anything*; there are ample documented instances of spammers taking their victims money and delivering *nothing*, and even more documented cases of their delivering a worthless or even dangerous product. And then there are the spammers who sell pirated software, the ones who are running identity theft scams, etc. "Never buy anything from a spammer" is the only safe policy. I'll be one happy guy when the big hand starts to slap these guys. What a waste of oxygen. I'm not holding my breath. Most of these come from places where the authorities have much bigger fish to fry. It's not that the authorities have bigger fish to fry in many cases, it's that the authorities don't give a rat's ass about the spamming because it's only ripping off people in *other countries*. Take the Chinese hosting services for the blue-pill spammers, for example. The Chinese are *producing* the bogus pills that the spammers are selling to gullible Americans, and what the spammers are doing is *legal* under Chinese law because all of the violations occur outside China. They have no reason to interfere, and a strong economic disincentive to do anything but *protect* the spammers. I could go on and on about why the problem is as bad as it is...but that's way OT for this forum. -- Typoes are a feature, not a bug. Some gardening required to reply via email. Words processed in a facility that contains nuts. |
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