spammers have a one in 40,000 hit rate for the products<.i>
Hard to believe that even one person in 40,000 would respond. Of course there are a lot of democrats in the world.
To: Graybeard58
I'm surprised it's that high.
I'd have guessed 1 in 10,000 or lower.
2 posted on
07/26/2004 1:20:12 PM PDT by
El Sordo
To: Graybeard58
The 20 or so spams I'm getting per hour now mostly are 2K,
with a subject line "Hi," and from obscure female names.
Last week they used subject line "Do you love me?"
3 posted on
07/26/2004 1:26:00 PM PDT by
ASA Vet
(Tourette's syndrome is just a $&#$*!% excuse for poor *%$#** language skills.)
To: Graybeard58
I wonder what the hit rate is for the Nigerian scammers. They've taken in Harvard Professors and other "smart" people (can you believe that they get to cast votes too?).
4 posted on
07/26/2004 1:29:30 PM PDT by
weegee
(Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. ~~Ronald Reagan)
To: Graybeard58
I have been receiving a lot of spam with gibberish in the leading paragraphs. Just nonsense words strung together. This has been happening for several months. It may be spam for insurance or mortgage or even pharmacy products. What is this all about? Anyone have any info?
7 posted on
07/26/2004 1:38:24 PM PDT by
duckman
(I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
To: Graybeard58
I got one yesterday that really torqued me off. It was from a "bank" I don't have an account with. "Your account is being accessed by an unknown third party" it warned, helpfully giving me a URL to click...
I reported them to the FBI.
--Boris
14 posted on
07/26/2004 1:56:29 PM PDT by
boris
(The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
To: All
16 posted on
07/26/2004 2:04:31 PM PDT by
backhoe
(1990's? Decade of Frauds. 2000's? Decade of Lunatics...)
To: Graybeard58
Got a scam email this afternoon pretending to be from earthlink. Asking me for my credit card number because my account was unpaid.
Earthlink aware of this and now is adding a scam protector as well as a spam protector to their website offerings.
17 posted on
07/26/2004 2:10:58 PM PDT by
OldFriend
(IF YOU CAN READ THIS, THANK A TEACHER.......AND SINCE IT'S IN ENGLISH, THANK A SOLDIER)
To: Graybeard58
Ahhh Viagra plus:
VIAAGRA plus:
VIAAGGRA plus:
VIAGGRA plus:
V I A G R A plus:
V I AA G R A plus:
V I AA GG R A plus:
V I A GG R A plus:
V,I,A,G,R,A plus:
V-I-A-G-R-A plus:
V+i+a+g+r+a plus:
vairga plus:
.etc and so on.
I could have gone on with countless other permutaions. What really makes me curious is; what makes these idiots think that I would be interested in their Viagra if I have filtered the actual word from my inbox?
30 posted on
07/26/2004 2:55:38 PM PDT by
Positive
(There's nothing sadder than seeing a group of great ideas being murdered by a bunch of brutal facts!)
To: Graybeard58
Someone needs to file some class-action lawsuits as spammers. Not for any outrageously-huge amount of money--maybe even just $0.0016 each [one second of labor at $6.00/hour]. That would actually be a class-action lawsuit where I wouldn't even mind too much if lawyers swallowed up most of the winnings.
33 posted on
07/26/2004 3:41:57 PM PDT by
supercat
(Why is it that the more "gun safety" laws are passed, the less safe my guns seem?)
To: Graybeard58
there's a sucker born every minute and some go around more than once
36 posted on
07/26/2004 4:56:13 PM PDT by
y2k_free_radical
(ESSE QUAM VIDERA-to be rather than to seem)
To: Graybeard58
I am about 90% certain that, if the Feds would get off their duffs and investigate, they would find that spam is being used as a terrorist comm channel. Any evildoer who is even slightly familiar with the Net would recognize it as the perfect way to avoid traffic analysis (study of who is sending messages to whom, without necessarily knowing anything about the content of the messages), which is why I don't feel impelled to refrain from pointing it out in public.
IMO, it's long past time for the Feds to do some serious anal-probing of known spam operations (even a cursory reading of spam spewings will provide probable cause for a plethora of IRS, FDA, SEC, and other three-letter-agency investigations) and check out their clients for terrorist connections.
42 posted on
07/27/2004 5:42:06 AM PDT by
steve-b
(Panties & Leashes Would Look Good On Spammers)
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