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I HATE how I fucking get Taiwanese spam. It's gibberish. You can't read it - so what is the point. The only way I've suspected it's from Taiwan is the .tw domain URLs pepper throughout the gibberish.
Only now have I started to get the 'make your penis bigger' e-mails.
It's annoying because it's on my student account e-mail. I even went to the IT center and asked them about getting rid of it - or getting a new address and they said they get the same spam and can't do anything about it - and that I can't get a new address!
BAH!
Andrew
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Da_bang80
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quote: The worst spam I ever got was through some bug (feature) in MSN Messenger which allows a popup over the internet. And it was a popup saying that I could protect myself from these popups by using their software. But THEY were the only ones using these popups. So send them a nasty e-mail using a different e-mail address. I got no reply, but suddenly that address is spammed
The worst pop-up attack I've ever had happened last week. I got a pop-up install screen (like the ones that ask if you want to download a language thing) It asked me if I wanted to download this software that scans my internet usage and generates pop-up ads based on what I might find interesting. I clicked no and tried to close the program...
I got 1 pop-up every second, and it would not stop, even after I restarted my computer. Turns out I had to go into the control panel and uninstall the program that I didn't want to install in the first place, all the while pop-ups coming up every damn second.
My worst ever spam attack happened when our Outlook Express inbox got hit with 12 porn ads, 5 "student loan", and 7 "you've won a million dollar" ads. In an hour. Turns out someone (most likely idiot sister) signed up to god only knows what, and our e-mail address got sold.
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quote:Originally posted by Harry: The worst spam I ever got was through some bug (feature) in MSN Messenger which allows a popup over the internet. And it was a popup saying that I could protect myself from these popups by using their software. But THEY were the only ones using these popups. So send them a nasty e-mail using a different e-mail address. I got no reply, but suddenly that address is spammed
They called themselves PopupBarrier.com. I hope they die and burn in hell.
I get pop-ups now too, and from more then one company. Unless it's some kind of twisted joke from MSN.
I got 15 e-mails last nightafter delelteing the first 20, so thirthy five wasn't too bad for one day. MAybe this is slowing down. I've only recieved 15 since about 1 am this morning.
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Based on the spam I've gotten this past week, my penis would be 39 inches longer, my breasts would be a size LLL, I'd be rolling around naked in borrowed cash, and I'd have nine hot women fingering their Georgia O'Keefe's as they wait for me to visit their webcams.
My old AOL accounts were the worst about spam. Visit a chat room for one minute, and you've already been sold to six different mailing lists.
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Don't I bloody know it... My 'normal' e-mail address doesn't really get any spam; I don't really use it to sign up to anything (except here)
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And it was a popup saying that I could protect myself from these popups by using their software. But THEY were the only ones using these popups.
Internet racketeering. What a wonderful world.
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: And it was a popup saying that I could protect myself from these popups by using their software. But THEY were the only ones using these popups.
Internet racketeering. What a wonderful world.
LOL
It's now 13:40, and I've recieved 25 so far.
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What's annoying me the most these days is that the bastards are finding ways to get around my spam detector... I download all the mail anyway, but I divert it to other folders so I don't have to look at it. (And I turn HTML off so the jerks don't get a hint that my e-mail address is valid anyway...) But lately, more of the e-mail has been slipping through the filters.
All I can hope is that that anti-spam law passes through Congress soon -- hopefully that can cut down on a lot of it, at least for a while until they all move overseas.
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We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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quote: The worst spam I ever got was through some bug (feature) in MSN Messenger which allows a popup over the internet.
This isn't a MSN Messenger thing - it's a service called Windows Messenger... same name, totally different things.
*muses* I could probably take one of the domains I have and start handing out email accounts to people, fully spam filtered...
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: And it was a popup saying that I could protect myself from these popups by using their software. But THEY were the only ones using these popups.
Internet racketeering. What a wonderful world.
LOL
It's now 21:50, and I've recieved 47 so far.
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My 'normal' e-mail address doesn't really get any spam; I don't really use it to sign up to anything (except here)
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