crap

[JABBERJAW]

I'd like to meet the person who sends me this sort of crap, have a nice chat. Maybe I could introduce him to one of my busted negcons


WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are happy to announce to you result of draw #(1152) of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on
Saturday 25th August 2007.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:66475600545
306 with Serial number 5377/06 drew the lucky numbers:4 18 22 27 44 48 33
BONUSBALL
You have been approved to claim the sum of Six hundred and ninety onethousand,
two hundred and fifty two pounds sterling(£691,252Pound
Sterlins).
To file for your claim,please contact our claims agent below.
**************************************************
Name:Mr James Kelvin.
Email: overseaclaimm1@yahoo.com.hk
Foreign Services Manager,
Payment and Release order
Department,
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE NATIONAL LOTTERY.
sincerely
Mrs. Calister Green
CONTROLER

[Asayyeah]

700,000 £ what can we have for that nowadays? pffff almost nothing.... a bugatti veyron? a mini yacht to cruise from islands to islands? a villa at St Tropez ? ;)

Get a spam-exterminator : you ll spend more time on wipeout :)

[lunar]

yes exactly, I don`t get out of bed for less than seven figures. ;)

The thing about that email is..... how many people called "Calister" do you actually know? :rolleyes: Up until that point they really would have had me. ;) These things are just sad really. They go to no effort to even make them convincing.

What`s even sadder is that people actually fall for these scams. Apparently a program called Spam Butcher is very good. Someone put it on my work computer and it did exactly what it promised.

[Mark Of Insanity]

Hmmm, I've learned to just ignore my spam mail... I currently have 3190 unread email messages - that's what you get from a year or two of neglect.

[Lance]

Funny how the email address of James Kelvin is in Hong Kong even though his department is in the UK and this is supposed to be for the ''National Lottery'' of the UK.

[G'Kyl]

You guys are not really DISCUSSING the validity of spam mails, now are you?!? ;-)

[Lance]

Certainly not! We are merely describing its nOn-validity, its inadequate design, its unsuitability for fooling the wary. Spam is by definition and nature non-valid; hence its validity need not be discussed. ;)

[Rapier Racer]

They could try harder, it's not even called the national lottery anymore

[andy]

feh! I get them all the time. =| Last night I even started getting them in italian!!!


.ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P{padding:0px;}.ExternalClass EC_body.hmmessage{font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;}Non chiudere questa mail xke se te l'ho inviata significa ke 6 una xsona
importante x me... Questa e-mail è stata scritta da Roberto Rinascentoni e
ha fatto 9 volte il giro dell'Italia. Neanch'io credevo al contenuto di
questa lettera ma sentite cos'è capitato a... Martino, il più sfigato della
scuola, il giorno dopo aver inviato la copia di questa lettera a 24 contatti
come sempre è andato a scuola e passando davanti alla ragazza più gnocca
della scuola, Chiara, le ha raccolto il libro di religione e i due
guardandosi negli occhi si sono innamorati a prima vista. Fabio avendo
cestinato l'e-mail è stato lasciato dalla sua ragazza che si è messa con il
suo peggior nemico, dopo averla ricevuta di nuovo l'ha letta e l'ha inviata
a 29 contatti e il giorno dopo la sua ex-ragazza è tornata con lui. Giorgia
ha letto e inviato l'e-mail a 19 contatti infatti 3 giorni dopo ha fatto
amicizia in biblioteca con Luca e ora sono felicemente fidanzati. Giulia ha
letto l'e-mail, ma credendo che fosse una stupida catena, l'ha lasciata
senza inviarla: il giorno dopo Marco, il suo fidanzato l'ha tradita. Gino
invece pensando che fosse una catena di cazate nn l'ha inviò e dp 24 ore
sentì suonare il telefono era la polizia che gli comunicava chi i suoi
genitori erano morti in un incidente d'auto. Queste sono solo alcune delle
cose che sono accadute avendo e non avendo inviato questa e-mail ad almeno
10 contatti entro 24 ore dopo averla letta... Se spezzi la catena sarai
sfigato in amore e nella vita fino a che nn morrai. Se invii la catena a
10-15 contatti tra una settimana ti accadrÃ* qualcosa di bello. Se invii la
catena a 16-22 contatti tra tre giorni colui/colei che ti piace lo capirÃ*.
Se invii la catena a 23-30+ contatti tra un giorno colui/colei che ti piace
ti dichiarerÃ* il suo amore......... Per favore: copia e incolla per non
creare disordine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

....oooooooooookay. These emails are getting seriously annoying now but I do find them quite funny to read. xD

[The Gracer]

Maybe I could introduce him to one of my busted negcons


Wow, imagine the freaky sorts of damage you could do with a neGcon :cold

i tend to not let these annoy me, i dont get many anyway.

[Lance]

I just delete them without even opening them, so they don't bother me much. And maybe that has also been part of why I still haven't gotten a virus since I first went online in 1997, even though I haven't used anti-virus software for several years. Careful what you click on.

[Rapier Racer]

My ISP is niche, thus it is relatively small compared to the big monster ISPs out there I am going to assume this is why I never get spam sent to my main email address anymore. Now when I was with BT we are talking 20 maybe 30 spam mails per week and no, I don't make a habit of passing my primary email address around they have the biggest market share for Broadband in the UK so I'm putting it down to them being specifically targeted by the spammers so the mails reach more junk folders. I gave my new one to the same companies as my old and for months, no spam.

[Lion]

I changed email provider a while back after I started getting about 50 spams per day in my inbox. the ISP I was with was catching about 80 per day at the time.
GMail was the answer I was looking for anyway. sorted :)

[JABBERJAW]

did you notice hotmail does not have a block sender option?

[rdmx]

Hey Al -
I'm assuming you are using Windows Live mail.
To block sender, go to the right of screen - "more options", and in the new page, go to safe and blocked senders.

[element42]

I find it quite interesting that you got a 'UK lottery' win. I (actually in the UK) only ever get Scandinavian lottery wins.