Who else gets SPAM like this?

[MikeyG]

Knew someone who got one of those emails from Nigeria or somewhere like that needing to transfer cash out of the country but asking for $10k to prove your sincerity. He replied asking for $20 for them to prove their sincerity and never heard from them again - funny that.

[Virago]

Knew someone who got one of those emails from Nigeria or somewhere like that needing to transfer cash out of the country but asking for $10k to prove your sincerity. He replied asking for $20 for them to prove their sincerity and never heard from them again - funny that.

The now infamous Nigerian Scam, or 419 Scam - although it's amazing how many people still get sucked in. Some people see $$$$$$$$$, and all common sense goes out the window.

Check out this site, the story of a guy who scammed a scammer, made him look like a total "Plonker" (yes Del Boy).....

http://forum.419eater.com/john_boko.htm

[Virago]

I'm blurdy sick of the stock and viagra spams - had about 6 today.

We're with Xtra, and I've spoken to lots of other Xtra customers who are getting slammed with this shit. Am I just paranoid or are Xtra letting this stuff through on purpose?

[Big Dave]

Yeah - i get 'em, porn sites that is.....errrr

[SARGE]

dude .. go get MAILWASHER.. lets you preview the email on the server and lets you elect to bounce it back to the origin..

[Ixion]

Yeah - i get 'em, porn sites that is.....errrr

Completely out of the blue of course, and entirely unwanted. And you can't for the life of you understand how they got your email address. And of course you always delete them unread. Yeah, me too.

[Big Dave]

Completely out of the blue of course, and entirely unwanted. And you can't for the life of you understand how they got your email address. And of course you always delete them unread. Yeah, me too.

I only surf them for the articles.

[Holy Roller]

The ones that appear as an invoice nearly got me in trouble with the Mrs as she thought that I was buying stuff again over the net. I had to tell her that it was not from trademe and that it was spam, who needs those little blue pills anyway not me. after the 3rd or 4th of these she finally believed me. Now I delete them when I check the mail at work on the webmail server.

[Hillbilly]

Do any of you use the "Create Rule" in Outlook or Outlook Express? I don't use Netscape/mozilla/Oprea but I guess they'd have something similar. The "block Sender" rule never works because the email addresses are fake. The best "rule" is to tick the box "in the message body or text" and then type in the things like "UK Modulus Invest" or "V/AGRA" etc etc. The tick either "Permenantly Delete" for Outlook or "Delete From Server" for OE. Eventually they give up as they have their emails set up to send "read receipts". They keep getting "deleted without being read" as a response.

[Krayy]

...What on earth does the sender want me to do?

Who else gets similar material, and have you figured out what it's all about?

It's a Fnord ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord ). Most of them are harmless, just stupid.

[Beemer]

I signed up with Xtra broadband a few months ago and the amount of spam I get through them is incredible. I check the webmail before downloading it to Outlook Express, but everyday there would about nine or 10. Most are offering me great job opportunities, telling me I have new mail from beautiful women (thanks, but not really into that!), or total crap that doesn't even look genuine. And I'm getting heaps of bogus ones from eBay and the Commonwealth Bank - ooh, looky here, I don't have an account with them but what say I click on the link anyway - yeah, right!

Totally sick of it, but as I have three different email servers, it's not that easy to avoid it. Xtra have an option to report it as spam and it apparently goes to their spam abuse centre - what that means I don't know, because I get so many that it's obvious they aren't doing anything about it. As for blocking senders, I soon ran out of room there - for each email there are often three different addresses attached to it.

[jrandom]

Fnord

Hail Eris!

[phaedrus]

spam, what's that?

I have a yahoo email account that I will give out freely to catch spam with, web sites and mailing lists that I trust get my google email account and only people get my regular email account.
every week or so i'll download from my yahoo email account and use that to train spamassassin.

I get about 1-3 spam emails a fortnight.

[Hitcher]

It's a Fnord.

So I was wasting my time pining for the fjords? (or, in New Zild, "fiords")

[jrandom]

pining for the fjords...

[Beau'iful plumage, kipping on back, bleedin' demised, I've got a slug...]

There, covered. Perhaps we could assign obligatory conversational sketch carry-ons a number. Like, you mention fjords, I say "147", and we all laugh.