Just how stupid are people? - Page 2

robert@fm · 9 Nov 2002, 06:05 AM

Tonight I've received:

Two Nigerian scams,
two messages claiming that I don't have to pay US tax (which, as I don't live in the US, I don't anyway), and
two spams from someone calling himself "Harry Potter", who seems to be using the name illegally to sell unauthorised and probably overpriced and poor-quality merchandise.  I'm thinking of reporting that one directly to the legal franchise owner. <vbeg>

lukask · 9 Nov 2002, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by robert@fm
Tonight I've received:

Two Nigerian scams,

two messages claiming that I don't have to pay US tax (which, as I don't live in the US, I don't anyway), and

two spams from someone calling himself "Harry Potter"

So you really had a good time tonight!

I only received very serious messages tonight

, I am going to sleep now....

robert@fm · 28 Jan 2003, 02:54 AM

I've just been spammed with an invitation to purchase a spam-elimination product?!?!

Irony rides again...

robert@fm · 6 Feb 2003, 06:10 AM

Someone on eBay was selling a perpetual-motion machine (this info courtesy of Who Would Buy That?)...

robert@fm · 14 May 2003, 06:27 AM

Some slimeball using the (probably bogus, or else shut down by now) address of beslim@hotmail.com has sent me (in a 24-hour period) 14!!! identical copies of the same crap, all with the subject "Be slim and attractive again instead of being a fat slob" and the usual garbage characters on the end.

Apart from being spam, this is idiotic for at least two non-spam reasons:

Nobody who's so rude and tactless as to call someone a "fat slob" (however accurately) deserves any business.
Neither does anyone who floods people with messages, as in this case.

Killer · 16 May 2003, 11:36 PM

I don't think they ever care. My mail.com and Yahoo.com got bombarded by such mails. Surprisingly for Yahoo when I block the whole domain name they managed to get another identical domain!! Such as popgoz.com being blocked, they will have a popbuz.com..... Does spamming really gave them so much cash to buy up domains??

Bamb0 · 21 Sep 2022, 10:57 AM

No they dont... I like the ones they blindly send to people and it says

"I saw you on instagram"

I am not on instagram!!

9 Nov 2002, 06:05 AM	#16
robert@fm The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 4,681	Tonight I've received: Two Nigerian scams, two messages claiming that I don't have to pay US tax (which, as I don't live in the US, I don't anyway), and two spams from someone calling himself "Harry Potter", who seems to be using the name illegally to sell unauthorised and probably overpriced and poor-quality merchandise.  I'm thinking of reporting that one directly to the legal franchise owner. <vbeg>

14 May 2003, 06:27 AM	#20
robert@fm The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 4,681	Some slimeball using the (probably bogus, or else shut down by now) address of beslim@hotmail.com has sent me (in a 24-hour period) 14!!! identical copies of the same crap, all with the subject "Be slim and attractive again instead of being a fat slob" and the usual garbage characters on the end. Apart from being spam, this is idiotic for at least two non-spam reasons: Nobody who's so rude and tactless as to call someone a "fat slob" (however accurately) deserves any business. Neither does anyone who floods people with messages, as in this case.

28 Jan 2003, 02:54 AM	#18
robert@fm The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 4,681	I've just been spammed with an invitation to purchase a spam-elimination product?!?! Irony rides again...

6 Feb 2003, 06:10 AM	#19
robert@fm The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 4,681	Someone on eBay was selling a perpetual-motion machine (this info courtesy of Who Would Buy That?)...

16 May 2003, 11:36 PM	#21
Killer Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Singapore Posts: 6,762 Representative of: Killer.kkk.sg	I don't think they ever care. My mail.com and Yahoo.com got bombarded by such mails. Surprisingly for Yahoo when I block the whole domain name they managed to get another identical domain!! Such as popgoz.com being blocked, they will have a popbuz.com..... Does spamming really gave them so much cash to buy up domains??

21 Sep 2022, 10:57 AM	#22
Bamb0 Master of the @ Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: USA Posts: 1,700	No they dont... I like the ones they blindly send to people and it says "I saw you on instagram" I am not on instagram!!