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Old 07-03-2004, 05:34 PM   #1
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I got some interesting spam today:


soggy,they leaned towards,soggy,they leaned towards,soggy,they leaned towards.soggy,they leaned towards,soggy,they leaned towards.

Nothing else was in the email. lol
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Old 07-03-2004, 06:08 PM   #2
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that's a weird one... I bet it was just bottom text and the rest of the email was image based that never made it through due to blockage.
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There are also tons of messages that go out where someone just hasn't figured out how to bulk mail yet. Messages with no header, or with un-translated merge fields (my favorite), and messages that are composed of just a bunch of mail headers with no messages.
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Old 07-03-2004, 09:41 PM   #4
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There are also tons of messages that go out where someone just hasn't figured out how to bulk mail yet. Messages with no header, or with un-translated merge fields (my favorite), and messages that are composed of just a bunch of mail headers with no messages.
Most likely it, i get those sometimes, but i have been receiving child porn spams lately, and it worries me, because i do not want to be anywhere near that kind of stuff and if it ends up in my inbox, that is not good news.
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Old 07-04-2004, 03:46 AM   #5
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Most likely it, i get those sometimes, but i have been receiving child porn spams lately, and it worries me, because i do not want to be anywhere near that kind of stuff and if it ends up in my inbox, that is not good news.
Report it to http://www.asacp.org/

and put your email address in the field so that they will email you that they have gotten it, then print it out...
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Old 07-04-2004, 10:39 AM   #6
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I keep getting viagra spam! I'm about to cave in...lol Wonder what it would do to me!
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Report it to http://www.asacp.org/

and put your email address in the field so that they will email you that they have gotten it, then print it out...
Done, thanks for the heads up.
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It must suck to find out that the spam it cost you 5 grand to send out didn't work.
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It must suck to find out that the spam it cost you 5 grand to send out didn't work.
Yeap, that would really make a broken link to a sponsors in a gallery look like potatoes.
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Spam has always had my interest... I love watching it seeing who’s new in the business, you start to get to know your spammers by their emails.

One day when I find a spammer in person that does it the legal way Im going to pick their brain dry of all their business model, and marketing ideas.

I have only meat two spammer online and they both where making over 300,000 a month from it, so it has my interest!
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That has to suck big time.
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not every spammer is a sophisticated genius who lives in a mansion....a lot of them are just amateurs who just bought their first AOL email list CD and picked up a cracked copy of darkmailer off IRC

the ones who are good ones (those who get me to open the email and sometimes even click a link) are like artists to me.

kind of like taggers, you know thye are a menace, but when their work is good, you have to sit up and take notice and have at lest a little admiration for them in perfecting their "art".
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Old 07-05-2004, 04:26 PM   #13
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Amateurs grow on trees! but they must grow from somewhere to become the "sophisticated genius".

I have a few small spam list.. err newsletter weekly, and the conversions will make you smile!

I think even in the world of mass spamming if a newbie managed to get their hands on 1 billion confirmed email address and only 2% of them signup with your program that would be 20,000,000 signups, and at lets say $10 per signup... Mahaha... lets just say I would have sex with that check!

BTW what’s a taggers?
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