E-mails offering Viagra via the net
Posted on 01/24/2003 1:21:35 AM PST by MadIvan
Every person on the net has one thing in common. They all hate spam.
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2002 was a bumper year for these messages and now 30% of all mail flying around the net is thought to be spam.
Filtering firm Surf Control has compiled a list of the top 10 most annoying spam messages sent across the net in the last 12 months.
Message overload
Unsurprisingly, top of the list were messages with a sexual theme.
The most annoying spam purported to pass on to people free passwords for sex sites that usually levy a charge to look beyond the front page.
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Also on the list of most annoying spam messages were those asking people to help get money out of various African nations.
These 419 scams as they are called are entirely bogus but regularly catch out gullible net users who let their greed overwhelm their common sense.
Costly business
Surf Control estimates that spam costs businesses around the world about $9billion a year to deal with.
This estimate includes the time it takes people to delete the messages, the cost of buying larger mail servers and storage systems to cope with in-boxes flooded with the messages and the cost of having staff unclog networks overloaded by spam.
There is little sign of an end to unsolicited mail.
Last year, one in 12 e-mails passing through MessageLabs' filter system was identified as spam.
The e-mail filtering company has warned of a dramatic rise in the amount of spam clogging in-boxes
It says the amount of spam will exceed normal e-mails by around July.
Regards, Ivan
I don't like Spam!
Hail To The Spammer In Chief?
By Declan McCullagh -- January 20, 2003, 4:00 AM PT
WASHINGTON--Sen. Joseph Lieberman hopes to become the first Democratic president from Connecticut, the first Jewish president, and the first senator to win the White House since John F. Kennedy.
Good for him. Our problem is that Lieberman also is itching to be our spammer-in-chief.
It's no joke. Within hours of announcing his plans to seek the Democratic nomination for the job last week, Lieberman started spamming around a message titled: "Beginning an Amazing Journey." It said: "I have the strength, vision, and values to lead our nation to higher ground."
To broadcast this momentous news, Lieberman used an outfit called Roving Software of Waltham, Mass., which sells a bulk-mail service called ConstantContact. Bulk mailers pay from $10 to about $2,000 a month for the service. Roving claims to occupy a market niche reminiscent of the dot-com boom, describing itself as a "pre-IPO, venture-backed" start-up boasting revenue growth of "more than 40 percent per quarter in 2002."
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Get your university degree in 6 months.
Hot college girls want to meet you now.
Get paid to read email.
You have $$$ waiting on you.
Here is the latest disclaimer I have on my "Editor's Notebook" page. The ugly e-mailers have decided to advance their games. I'm sure other people here on FR experience this too.
"A NOTE FROM CINDY to ****.com Readers regarding my e-mail: First of all let me tell you that my e-mail works fine thank you, so please rest assured that I do read your e-mail and send you a no-virus response. Now here's the E-MAIL UPDATE: The bad guys just never give up. They're still sending mail using my e-mail address. I even get some of the return e-mail that supposedly I have sent. I'm not the only one this is happening to. Very sad, isn't it? FYI: None of the ****.com web pages bulk e-mail, have e-mail lists, spam, or are associated with porn and/or other criminal activities. ****.com never signs guest books, solicits for money, does not take money and never will. ****.com never places classified advertisements in singles/sex/porn sites. ****.com never sells products. A Book of Interest connected with the subject matter being discussed may be linked on various web pages. I have never submittted a job resume online nor am I looking for a job. So employers, please IGNORE those false "resumes" that are supposedly coming from me. Thank you. ~end~
I WISH FOR THE DAY WHEN LAWS REGARDING E-MAILS HAVE SOME TEETH TO THEM. Wishful thinking, I'm sure...
December 6, 2002
BY MIKE WENDLAND
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST
West Bloomfield bulk e-mailer Alan Ralsky, who just may be the world's biggest sender of Internet spam, is getting a taste of his own medicine.
Ever since I wrote a story on him a couple of weeks ago (www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend22_20021122.htm), he says he's been inundated with ads, catalogs and brochures delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to his brand-new $740,000 home.
It's all the result of a well-organized campaign by the anti-spam community, and Ralsky doesn't find it funny.
"They've signed me up for every advertising campaign and mailing list there is," he told me. "These people are out of their minds. They're harassing me."
That they are. Gleefully. Almost 300 anti-Ralsky posts were made on the Slashdot.org Web site, where the plan was hatched after spam haters posted his address, even an aerial view of his neighborhood.
"Several tons of snail mail spam every day might just annoy him as much as his spam annoys me," wrote one of the anti-spammers.
Ralsky is indeed annoyed. He says he's asked Bloomfield Hills attorney Robert Harrison to sue the anti-spammers.
I'll go open my Yahoo mail - I deleted it all at least 3 hours ago. There must be plenty more by now.
Yep! There are 29 unsolicited emails already. Here's some:
Most of them were advertisements for porn sites. One was to announce the sale of MLB Bobble Head Dolls.
Regards, Ivan
NO! I don't want to wear a bro (AKA mansiere)!!!
I guess if those same women had wanted to meet me when I was in college, I'd be in the same position as Scott Ritter is now...
Ever see this one:
Reduce your penis length quickly:
We've got ideas for it!
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