My thoughts on…those pesky Nigerian spam mails
I get the usual spam mail just like everyone else. Apparently I’m in dire need to enlarge my member, earn some bogus degree whose only valid use is toilet paper, refinance my mortgage for my non-existent home, and buy some unknown stocks with my non-existent money. But the most annoying and persistent of all are those Nigerian spams. My Gmail and Yahoo! accounts filter most of my spam fine, but my Hotmail account lets them walk on by, even though I have my spam filter on. But it’s a Microsoft product, so I don’t expect it to work all that well. They didn’t start flooding my inbox until the other day, when I signed up for a French-based blog directory (shows that you just can’t trust the French).
I get like five a day, and that’s a modest estimate. I check my email every chance I get just to get a cheap laugh out of these spammers’ efforts. Some of them are obviously scams, like the ones riddled with grammatical errors. Others require more scrutiny, like those well written, polite ones that use actual names and events. But being the skeptical fellow I am, they bounce off me like rubber off steel. I think they realize that I’m a hard one to fool, as I can see them switching tactics on me. Normally they’d just flood my inbox with claims of rich widows and oil barons scouring the Internet and finding only me, lil’ ol’ me trustworthy enough to get their ridiculous sums of money out of the country.
But now they’re claiming that I won some European lotto, or some Microsoft (ooh, money!) sponsored sweepstakes (at least try to make the letter look official, like giving it a letterhead or something, instead of looking like something that was whipped up in five minutes in Notepad). And they have dared to use the name of God in their mailings, often claiming that they are some helpless missionary who needs help with church funds. Don’t these people have any shame? I think I’ll try “scam-baiting.” That is, toy around with the scammers, making them think they have me fooled. I hope if I rub them the wrong way, they’ll leave me alone. I heard someone got a new computer that way. I wonder if I’ll be that lucky? I could use a flat screen right about now. If I decide to do that, you guys’ll be the first to know.
I get spam to both enlarge my non-existant penis and my breasts! I wish they would make up their minds!
lol @ m.. :rofl.. um i have dedicated spam boxes.. i know it sound silly but it makes sense. meaning when i sign up for something and i know i’m gonna get spammed i use one of my collect spam addresses. and have one for my actual business emails.
If i had a penny for everytime ive won money through email……No nigerean spam yet though..
Frankly I consider all the times walmart sends me emails asking me to print photographs ~harrasment….more annoying that someone asking me to enlarge my penis..
All I have to say about these bastards is…%!*@%@&*!%&!$%8(^@! That should explain my feelings!
&&***(())_(U)(UJNN Oh, I get way too much of that crap!! Good Post
I had that problem too. If it makes you feel any better, you can go to these site and read about how someone has been trying to get them back:
http://www.419eater.com
It was funny
lol I get tons asking me to enarge my penis
I’ve won the Irish lottery, the UK lottery and dozens of others. I’ve also had people from the far reaches of Africa claiming that vast sums of cash are waiting for me. Where does it end.