From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 21 05:40:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9BC416A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 05:40:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from hannibal.servitor.co.uk (hannibal.servitor.co.uk [195.188.15.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B8043D4C for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 05:40:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@iconoplex.co.uk) Received: from hannibal.servitor.co.uk ([195.188.15.48] helo=iconoplex.co.uk) by hannibal.servitor.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AY3ol-000MNZ-6v; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:40:24 +0000 Message-ID: <3FE5A2BD.9020802@iconoplex.co.uk> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:40:13 +0000 From: Paul Robinson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randi Harper References: <06214A1C-33B6-11D8-811B-000393D46EC6@coders.net> In-Reply-To: <06214A1C-33B6-11D8-811B-000393D46EC6@coders.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Christian Weisgerber cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spam educates X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:40:23 -0000 Randi Harper wrote: > I learned that with the proper pills and/or gadgets, I can grow a huge > penis that will make women everywhere want me. I don't know if the following slang reference translates across to wherever you are, but with a name like Randi, I'm not suprised they send you mails like that. :-) > Apparently this is much in demand, since 95% of my spam has something > to do with the male genitals. 2% has to do with anti-spam services, > and the remaining 3% is people wanting to send me money. Now, that 2% offering anti-spam services just crack me up. They should get a prize or something for just baiting stupid people. Who the hell walks upto their mailbox, proclaims "Oh no! More spam! Oh, actually it's a mail offering me anti-spam services! Just what I need!" and then clicks the links and give these people money for spyware... The 3% wanting you to believe they are going to send you money (or rather, trust you to help them move money out of somewhere) are also good for a luagh. I know a guy who is effectively bankrupt and has served time in prison who gets e-mails he enjoys because they inform him he has been "chosen as a trusted individual" who can help move $25 million out of a "People's Republic" somewhere... I once replied to one with a different addy saying "hey mate, I just broke into this guys' e-mail and he's a dork. His security is so poor the feds will catch you in no time - I'll do it for you instead if you want" and for some reason they never replied. :-) Well, at least the laws are starting to drop into place to slowly start putting the spammers behind bars... -- Paul Robinson