probable con

i received this email today

with me being so paranoid,
i did nothing (except posting it here) i just wanted to warn HWFs, or am i wrong ?

 

Donkey, you've just won £5,500,000!!!!!!! :good:






:dry:

Thanks for warning us though! I don't think that an e-mail of such 'great importance' would have so many grammatical errors!!

 

yeah, right

np, just keep an eye on your inbox

me neither, but, using MS was clever[ot]remembered T[/ot]

 

I get hundreds of these. Fortunately GMail catches 99.9% of them.

 

*Pats Donkeys head quite patronisingly*

 

"Probable" con? Hah, dead-certain con.

For some reason, my yahoo account gets completely deluged by these. I get like 5 or more different varieties of these per day. The spam catcher in yahoo is decent but not the greatest, so still have to delete one or two usually.

I don't get it. How did my address become such a target for these stupid things. It happened very suddenly, too. One time I got a single one of those, from an African politician or whatever (lol). So to screw around, I replied to the email with something abusive. I put something like STFU and something else -- I don't remember -- in there. I thought it was funny. And then the next day, all these email cons started coming. Several of them per day, like I said. And they've never stopped since. Geez...

Did the person at the other end who received my reply decide to do that to me because of my reply??

 

tracking your internet activity???

 

i was trying to be polite[ot]for a change[/ot]

can i have a spank please ?[ot]pwease pwease pwease[/ot]

 

Hmmm I don't know... you'd have to be really bad, like spelling colour 'color', metre 'meter' ... that really annoys me!!

Or call me Tom, that's also annoying

 

I think when you reply to spam, it confirms that it's a real address, and your email addy gets added to lists or something. Can't remember where I read it

 

ok, how about binary

or Hex

or Base 64

Edit: i can also do decimal or quote various checksums etc.

 

[OT]Sssssssssssssssssssssssspank![/OT]


</Worlds Weirdest Post>

 

ooooooooooooooooo eeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrr

thanking you big style

BTW: if it didn't make sense, check here


Edit: see, its fun to be stupid

 

I'd made sense of it thanks

 

:good: a lot of people don't get my version of a sense of humour

 

Maybe that version is outdated? Have you looked into upgrading? Do you have automatic updates enabled?

 

I think it's harder to have a sense of humor over the internet... you can't add a sarcastic voice (I use :dry: instead) or show body language.

 

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