Who else gets SPAM like this?

**Jonty** · 20th July 2006, 16:32

I seem to get these emails in the background to those dodgy bank emails that are after your pin number. They are only visable if I have a preview pane open. I agree, very random mayber you need a "beautiful mind" to fiqure it out - could be a plan to take over the world!!

**Beemer** · 20th July 2006, 16:43

I usually check the webmail and delete any spam before it gets to my inbox but today I was in a hurry and got two new ones - one sent to Macquarie Bank customers (I am not one) and the other to some other bank customers. Oh yes, of course I will send you all my personal details so you can rip me off, in fact I'd love to - yeah, right!

I get these random text ones too, and heaps of job offers, stock tips and products to "en'larg'e y'our 'pe'ni's" - that must be to get around the filters that pick up on certain words. With Xtra you can block the senders, and what amazes me is that even if there is only one email, when you do this, it comes up with a list of two or three email addresses or domain names. This morning I had two emails and it came up with 12 separate addresses!

I hate spam, and having about 12 different email addresses and three separate webmail accounts doesn't help. Most of the spam comes to the email address on my website, although the Xtra ones attract heaps too - all job offers and ways to 'make money legally'. Thanks, but I already know how to do that, it's called WORKING!

**ManDownUnder** · 20th July 2006, 16:43

Originally Posted by Hitcher

That I understand. But why do it?

The shit text bypasses the anti spam filters

They send it and if they DON'T get a bounceback they know your address is still good... then sell it to the real spammers. You then get Viagra ads and the like...

**Squeak the Rat** · 20th July 2006, 16:46

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

if they DON'T get a bounceback ..

Ahhhhh.....makes sense

**Macktheknife** · 20th July 2006, 16:49

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

The shit text bypasses the anti spam filters

They send it and if they DON'T get a bounceback they know your address is still good... then sell it to the real spammers. You then get Viagra ads and the like...

What he said...
All it does is verify your email address, usually has some kind of open report sent back to the originator behind the scenes. The details are then used for the 'not-spam' because we have your exact email address and can BS that you signed up for it. Delete without opening and carry on .

**ManDownUnder** · 20th July 2006, 16:50

Originally Posted by Squeak the Rat

Ahhhhh.....makes sense

Yes... little bastrards.

And some of them simply have an embedded image in them which (upon preview) connects to the webserver hosting the image. A unique image name per email (so it's a unique URL requested) and they know who is out there and who ain't.

It's just a big game of cat and mouse... like first time anal sex... a pain in the arse

**Mental Trousers** · 20th July 2006, 16:56

They know you need Viagra Hitcher, they just don't know where to find you so it's a process of elimination. Replies (bounces) tend to confirm the address doesn't exist so they fire emails at the addresses that don't reply.

**Switch** · 20th July 2006, 17:42

ive never recieved anything like that, im glad too, must be a pain having to delete it everyday. One day someone will figure a way of stopping it... (tui add?)

**Hitcher** · 20th July 2006, 21:30

Originally Posted by Mental-Trousers

They know you need Viagra Hitcher

If I had availed myself of every penile enhancement offer I had received, my massive priapism would require alternating red and white bands to be applied and a red flashing light to be attached to its furtherest extremity, least it interfere with low-flying aircraft.

**kiwifruit** · 20th July 2006, 21:46

Originally Posted by mattmacaskill

One day someone will figure a way of stopping it... (tui add?)

sorry to sound like a broken record, but
www.gmail.com

**Hitcher** · 20th July 2006, 21:59

Originally Posted by kiwifruit

sorry to sound like a broken record, but
www.gmail.com

A couple of reasons to crack your record:

1. Work email.
2. Having to keep changing your gmail address. Spam will always find you.

**kiwifruit** · 20th July 2006, 22:04

1) work email: well im not sure how your work email works, but it works for me....

2) why keep changing your addy? gmail sorts it for you!

anyone would think im some sort of google advert.... i might shut up now

**vtec** · 20th July 2006, 23:13

Yep, I've got gmail. It was bloody good at filtering the spam, but now, these fucken randomised emails with pictures broken down into separate bits and then reassembled if you allow it to show the pics in the email. Fucking annoying. Don't respond. Some spam that I've had recently on clear email had tried to run a program on my computer as soon as I opened luckily I didn't allow it to activate the program because I've got some good firewall and program management software.