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To: Red in Blue PA
I want to meet the people who fall for these emails.

I've never understood how spammers make money. I can't believe that the response rate for these justifies their continuation. I know how cheap it is to flood the world, but still....

6 posted on 10/18/2007 8:27:05 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce
I've never understood how spammers make money. I can't believe that the response rate for these justifies their continuation. I know how cheap it is to flood the world, but still....

I have had my bank account wiped out five times by some Nigerian, but the e-mail I got today is a sure thing. I am already counting my millions.

8 posted on 10/18/2007 8:32:10 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: ShadowAce
I want to meet the people who fall for these emails.
I've never understood how spammers make money. I can't believe that the response rate for these justifies their continuation. I know how cheap it is to flood the world, but still....


My Mom did. She is in the start of demensia (sp?), and we found out pretty quickly what happened. I got together with my siblings, and we added everyone we could think of who my Mom would ever get email from, put them in the address book in Outlook Express, then told OE to ONLY download messages from them, all others to leave on server. My oldest sister goes through them from looking at the email on the server, to make sure we did not miss anyone, then deletes them. After a month or so, we changed it to just delete off server instead of leaving it on there, and that was it. She ONLY gets email from anyone in the address book, all others, deleted. Helped out ALOT!
12 posted on 10/18/2007 10:01:06 AM PDT by AJMaXx (ILU Roo.....!)
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