From 7CR:"... I have to give professional spammers a point for
creativity with the recent flock of email that says, 'Is
this XXXX, if not sorry for the bother.' I can only imagine
how many valid email addresses that must have harvested.
Still, should I ever meet the purpetrator on the street, I
can think of some fine action involving a ball-peen
hammer and really bad opinion of direct marketing. It's the
cowardice. At least beggars have the courage to look you
in the face and ask for money with no suppositions..." I got one of these too. I was going to mention it, as this was probably pretty effective for them. As I've said once before - DO NOT REPLY to any message that you do not want, or that you don't know what it is. Spammers want to get lists of active email addresses to sell to other spammers who want to fill you mailboxes with useless offers for off shore tax havens, and various get rich quick schemes. If you reply to a message like this, then they know your address is good, and YOU WILL BE SOLD and resold untill your mailbox is no good to you anymore (unless you are really lonely, and you'd rather get these spams then nothing, in which case you are in luck...) No one will ever read your message, so all the cursing or pleading or whatever you try to do is all to no avail. Just ignore them, and while they won't go away, they might not bother you as much. And just for the record, although I do hate spammers, and would love to meet one in real life, I'll take them over a total government monitoring program that would be needed to stop them. Stiffer penalties might be a good way to go though. How about $250,000 fines for convicted spammers, and the money goes into funding existing and new MAE nodes (is that what you would call them?)
I got that one too, and ignored it, even though I thought it might be legitimate. I've never gotten any spam at DMTree, but there was junk in my inch mailbox before I ever looked in it, let alone gave the address to anyone.
i got unsolicited email (but maybe not spam'd??) after i started applying for loans, credit cards etc but i responded to them all to take me off the list and i havent gotten any in a while...
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- jim 1-03-2001 6:15 pm
I got that one too, and ignored it, even though I thought it might be legitimate. I've never gotten any spam at DMTree, but there was junk in my inch mailbox before I ever looked in it, let alone gave the address to anyone.
- alex 1-03-2001 6:58 pm
i got unsolicited email (but maybe not spam'd??) after i started applying for loans, credit cards etc but i responded to them all to take me off the list and i havent gotten any in a while...
- Skinny 1-03-2001 9:14 pm