Spam!

[georgiek50]

I can't take any more mortgage spam!

(sorry, just venting)

[vkaryl]

me too sweetie.... 105 emails today....

[georgiek50]

I wonder if this kind of spam really works?

[vkaryl]

Not for me. I refi'd my mortgage all right - with the local credit union to which I belong. For 30 years at 5.3% fixed, and no balloon. Since I make an extra payment at least once per quarter, sometimes more often, I don't expect it'll take me the full 30 to be free and clear.

Spammail is like telemarketers. Don't call me - I'll call you. NOT.

[Actually, I mind the mortgage ones WAY less than the male sexual enhancement ones.... of which I get probably 200+ per day.... *sigh*]

[TheDoctor]

Certainly doesn't work for me, since it applies only to the USA - and I live in London!

I also get oodles of this stuff to an admin address. What do they imagine will happen to it there? Am I supposed to display it on my website or something?

And why the misspelling of "mortgage"? Don't they realise that anyone who's got their spam filter set to reject any email containing the word "mortgage" is going to delete a message the word "mortage" with random non-alpha symbols inserted into it?

Rant, rant, rant, rant.....mumbles inaudibly into beard

[Chndru]

read on a website:

Senders of unsolicited e-mail messages to e-mail addresses at the *****.com domain or clients, customers and / or employers of said senders, are, at the discretion of the owners of the *****.com domain, subject to an e-mail storage fee of US $250,000.00 per message, payable upon receipt.

[georgiek50]

It would be nice to make that kind of money per e-mail!

I could retire in a day!

[bakedjake]

Get ready for more. I just sent out about 500K.

Just kidding ;-)

[georgiek50]

Hehe :)

I think that some of the more successful affiliates in this forum are involved in spam. Someone has to be profiting from all of this.

[TheDoctor]

an e-mail storage fee of US $250,000.00 per message

Actually, $250 per message would generate me an adequate income.

[Leosghost]

I always want to send back the male enhancement ones with a photo and a testimonial from my wife to show they had the wrong address...
Apparently "They" can send out this crap with impunity ..but If I wrote back My ISP would pull the plug ...funny old world ...

[grelmar]

I read somewhere that they only need a CTR of 1/100,000 e-mails, and a completion of 1/1,000 CTR for it to be econonmically viable on a relatively weak PC th, if copnfigged right, can send out 20,000,000+ per day.

Talk about a numbers game.

5 cheap, obsolete PCs, and you're getting 1000 CTR, and 1 completion a day, earning something like 1000$/day. Almost makes you want to join the dark side.

[HowlingWizard]

Worst then plan spam is the dozens of bounce messages I get to delete every day. Some spammer has been using our primary domain name for over a month. The are easy to spot is addresses like qbc4dwo@<my domain>.com

This spammer is prime canidate for my 'education' tools (truck, sturdy rope and 20 miles of dirt road). Now I just have to catch the spammer.... May a couple public 'education' sessions would help reform the whole spam issue.

[photon]

Is anyone else getting the fake "unable to deliver your email" spam? I had my spam pretty much under control. Now I'm getting 30-40 of the "Mail Subsystem error" types every day.

[grelmar]

I'm not sure if that's spam, or if it's a result of someone cloaking spam under your e-mail address (aparently, a frighteningly easy thing to do).

One of my accounts has become nearly useless, because it's been denoted as a "spam" address by far to many servers.

Which boils my bunions. It's akin to identity theft.

[mivox]

$250 per message would generate me an adequate income.

At that rate, I could have retired off the spam we got at the office last week, even if I split the take with my boss. ;) I had to shut off our catchall mailbox... 50K+ spams a day for a couple days in a row.