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Spam, Spam – We’re Drowning in SPAM!
by Gary ~ November 27th, 2008
How much spam do you get? I get dozens and dozens of crazy spam emails in my inbox every day – everything from making a certain part of my anatomy three inches longer to winning a lottery that has been amazingly “tagged” to my email address. Gee whiz, lucky me. How did that happen?
Oh, and don’t forget Mrs Oomooloogoo of the little known country of Gabon. Her husband (the late) General Hoodoo Oomooloogoo was assassinated leaving her an account in Switzerland with US$68.8 million in it. Only thing is that poor old Nancy Oomooloogoo is in hiding and cannot get out of the country.
Enter me.
Luckily, she has seen me on the internet and trusts me implicitly. Oh, why not? I’m a trustworthy guy!
All I have to do is give good ole Nance my banking details – and password – and she will put the whole bang lot in there and we can split the spoils when I send her a first class air ticket to Switzerland. Lucky me!
Sound familiar?
All the pigs are lined up on the tarmac…
Goodness, are people falling for this stuff? I guess they are. Otherwise these crappy emails that are so obviously scams wouldn’t get sent.
I suppose if the scammers send out 100,000 emails and only get a couple of replies then it’s worth it.
And that’s the name of the game isn’t it folks? The internet is a numbers game and with such collosal numbers it only takes a few suckers to get duped and the con perpetuates.
Yep, the internet is a reflection of life in the real world. There are decent people helping others and there are cretins just wanting to prey on victims. It’s up to each of us to make those choices – who to trust and who to avoid.
What is your most common spam invasion? I’d be interested to know. If we know what’s out there then we can protect ourselves from those who seek only to rip us off.
Any comments?
Regards
Gary Simpson
November 29th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Hi Gary
The best ones are when someones friend, relative or client has died and he/she left millions of dollars in a bank account. The person writing is prepared to give you a percentage of the total as compensation for transferring these funds to your bank account…yeah right!
But the scammers all want the same thing
Name
Address
Telephone No
Fax No
Date of Birth
It baffles me that people still fall for these scams especially after you read about them in the papers or see them on TV.
I have to admit I’ve been drawn in a couple of times but luckily have realised what they were.
Apart from the “if it’s too good to be true-it probably is” moment – look at the email addresses they come from.
Most of them are gmail,yahoo etc – and these are supposed to be professional people i.e barristers writing
That makes me think they would have proper name or company email addresses.
Some do but once you’ve received shed loads of them, you can tell without opening them what they are.
Best wishes
Doug
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November 29th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Hi Doug,
Yeah they are such utter crap. I nail these goons now with a fraud response from my security suite.
Hey, I liked your site a lot. I left a message there. Hope my humour wasn’t over the top.
Thanks for posting.
Regards
Gary
Internet Marketing Student of Alex Jeffreys
December 1st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
This was a good post. Here in Sweden we have a bank called Nordea who’s customers have been heavily targeted.
It usually goes something like the bank has had a major upgrade to their internet banking systems and that users of the bank should login to verify that the system is truly up and running again.
As I’m sure you are aware, we don’t speak english natively in Sweden. We speak swedish. The perpitrators know about this too, but unfortunately for them they don’t know the grammar of the swedish language very well. Who has ever heard of a letter from a bank with bad grammar? They are more or less as formal and strict as they come.
Still, it seems people actually go and click through the link in the letter, give away their account information and then get surprised they have been conned. That to me is naivity beyond belief.
I am dealing with this subject a little differentley at my blog where I have implemented protection from spam in the form of captchas. The Spammers are sadly all over blogs and guestbooks as well.
talk soon!
Carl of http://www.carljaniei.com