You can forward those to me if you like.
Most stupid junk mail
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I rarely get spam. When I do... well, sorry, spammers, I don't have a penis to enlarge.
I've been getting a lot of Nigerian scam emails at my work address this year, but I got one really clever one. This one was claiming that it was real and that all the other scam emails are other individuals who have a chance to get my money if I don't respond right away. The other guys are spamming my address with the scam emails hoping that when the real email arrives, I'll ignore it as another scam.
Well, I have to at least give them credit for effort.
Well, I have to at least give them credit for effort.
Bulk mailings through an e-mail service provider do cost money. We use Blue Sky Factory for our communications (I'm in the convention & visitors bureau industry), and while I don't have the contract in front of me, I think I pay something like $350 a month (ballpark, I forget what the actual number is) to send out 300,000 e-mails per year.
I have one in my spam filter just now inviting me to "Try Prado E-Cigarettes For Free". The most polite response I can offer to that is 
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I look in the spam filter occasionally and I also seem to get a lot of invitations to study at various US universities (mainly in Arizona), claims I can make large amounts of money working from home, assorted women claiming they can't wait to meet me (not much use to me since I'm straight), and various other amusing - and not so amusing - oddities. I haven't been offered a Viagra sample in years, though.
.I look in the spam filter occasionally and I also seem to get a lot of invitations to study at various US universities (mainly in Arizona), claims I can make large amounts of money working from home, assorted women claiming they can't wait to meet me (not much use to me since I'm straight), and various other amusing - and not so amusing - oddities. I haven't been offered a Viagra sample in years, though.
At my old office, we had a pretty bad rodent problem, especially in the winter months. Mice would come in (either from the basement or from the apartments upstairs) and take residence in cabinets, trashcans, etc.
Anyway, we started naming the little fuckers, coming up with a new name each time a new mouse was discovered. The names came from the senders of spam e-mail that we got. My favorite was "Rosie Hightower." ("Bud Bourgeois" was another good one, too.)
Anyway, we started naming the little fuckers, coming up with a new name each time a new mouse was discovered. The names came from the senders of spam e-mail that we got. My favorite was "Rosie Hightower." ("Bud Bourgeois" was another good one, too.)
Lately I've been getting REALLY stupid spam. The titles always read like some crazy porn with a string of random sexual words (pretty typical for spam), but the actual email body will be about new computer software or an advertisement for jewelry or something completely unrelated to porn. It cracks me up.
I just got these:
The strange thing is that I have gotten this last one several times over the last year or two
Are we debating religion now?
(My emphasis)
The strange thing is that I have gotten this last one several times over the last year or two
Are we debating religion now?
Go for it!
For those who haven't seen it, my favourite spam thing was the guy who did a reversal on a Nigerian by saying he was at places called Innsmouth and Arkham, and he'd help the Nigerian as soon as he got through investigating mysterious stories about lost gods, and gradually he's drawn in deeper and deeper...
It was one of the funniest things I've ever read. If you want to read it, and it really is worthwhile, the following link will take you to a page in the Wayback Machine that'll give you a number of pages that have it. Really, take the time, in places it's hysterical.
http://web.archive.org/web/20021017185525/http://www.geocities.com/steerp1ke/David_Ehi.html
It was one of the funniest things I've ever read. If you want to read it, and it really is worthwhile, the following link will take you to a page in the Wayback Machine that'll give you a number of pages that have it. Really, take the time, in places it's hysterical.
http://web.archive.org/web/20021017185525/http://www.geocities.com/steerp1ke/David_Ehi.html
Aparently I've got an uncle somewhere in Africa (not that I'm ignorant of the diferent countries there, but there where quite a few. I seem to have a large family.) who died and left me an obscene amount of money. I just have to send my bank acount number...
I have a lot of those. I also get a lot of European lottery ones, genuine Rolex watches (no, really) ones, cheap drugs ones, and this morning I actually had one titled "Nigerian Beneficiary", which made me laugh out loud. Those Nigerian princes don't give up easily, do they?
I get these all the time. I also get online pharmacy or casino spam mail... I don't need viagra, and I don't gamble. *sigh*
I just checked my spam folder. The most promising one is from "Fernando Funk" (sounds like the lead singer of a 1970s cover band) asking me, "How's the world using you?"
Not much else of distinction--a lot of Cyrillic, though.
Not much else of distinction--a lot of Cyrillic, though.
Drugs. It's appalling what you can by and at what quantities.
Besides the usual ones for cheap pharmaceuticals (including Viagra and Cialis) and the occasional spam mail offering fake university degrees or easy money-making schemes, I frequently receive (for reasons which completely escape me) solicitations to buy replica watches - fake Rolexes, fake Omegas, fake Tissots and Breitlings, and "cheapest discount Cheap Swiss Designer Rep1icaWatches," too!
And I haven't purchased or even worn a watch of any description for probably a couple of decades, at least.
And I haven't purchased or even worn a watch of any description for probably a couple of decades, at least.
O, the FBI send me a mail. Didn't read it though, if they had something so very important to get from me in far far away-land they would have called...I hope.
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