Larissa Ione

Idiot Spammers

I HATE spammers. Hate 'em. Spamming should be illegal. And spammers…well, they're only a step or two above looters on the scumbag scale.

Recently I've been getting more spam than usual. If I get a hundred emails a day, fifty will be spam. WHY do these morons think I want a watch, penis enlargement pills, or cheap prozac? And WHY do they think I'm stupid enough to click on their damned emails with attachments that could be viruses?

They're getting sneakier though…some of the spam now has headings like, "Re: Jason's story," instead of "Buy $cheap$ viagra!"

For a split second, I sometimes wonder if the subject of "Jason's story" has something to do with some writer's group I belong to. Then I look at who the email is from, and without exception, I realize that "Jason's story" has come from a spammer. See, spammers are getting smarter with their subject lines, but the freaking morons haven't figured out that the oddball names they use won't fool ANYONE.

I don't know anyone named Mie or Eziekiel or Emory or Rishona Luek. I mean, HELLOOOOOOOO! Do they really think I'm going to open a strange email from Jung-Huarizzardi???

Why don't they use NORMAL, familiar names that just might fool people? Why not send emails from Susan or Karen or Jan? Everyone knows a Mike. Or a Richard. People might actually open an email from a Steve if the subject isn't "New watches that tell you when to take your cheap Viagra!"

So there, idiot spammers. You're getting more clever with your headings, but the weird-ass names on the emails give you away. I delete without opening. Get smarter. Give me a challenge.

I'll still despise you, of course. But hey, I'll have more fun doing it.

5 Responses to “Idiot Spammers”

But they do send emails from ‘John’ or ‘Kathy’. And it would be be addressed to: ‘jaq’, making me assume (previously) that it was a good/close friend. Now my spam filters are so high, only peeps in my address book get in for the most part, everyone else gets dumped in the junk/delete file. The thing that really burns my bridges, though, is every once and awhile, I get a ’spam’ email from myself. I haven’t figured out how they did it, I’ve got virus stuff loaded up the wahzoo on the pc, so it’s not malicious (it even comes from my home addy, to my work addy, and work has UNBELIEVEABLY annoying firewalls & virus checks.)

Geez, I’ve just sucked up all the oxygen around here. lol. Needless to say, you’ve hit a nerve with this subject.

by jaq on December 12th, 2005 at 11:06 am
My husband has worked in the e-mail industry (I guess e-mail can be an industry now) for a long time. It’s been sort of cool to be sort of on the inside with those who are fighting spammers. There are ways to eliminate most of it - at the ISP level and at your e-mail client’s level.

I want to find a way to spam *them*:

Reduce the amount of spam in your mailbox!

Real e-mail, not spam!

Improve your Inbox today!

She’ll love your long message - spam free!

~PJ~

by PJ on December 12th, 2005 at 11:09 am
Hmm…I never get spam from normal-names. I’m jealous! Oooh, but yeah, I get spam from me, too! Grr. Makes me SOOOOO mad that those bastards spoof my addy and send spam using my name and an almost identical address. Argh!!!!! :evil:

LOL, PJ!!!! I actually have spammed jerks who leave spam in my blog. I’ve copied the spam, lengthened it by about 50x, and then used their own email address to send about 100 emails to them as huge files to totally jam their inbox. Obviously, that will be a waste of time if they are using a temporary email address, but I’ve found that a lot of the blog spammers use site email addresses for the site they are spamming for.

Heck, even if my spamming doesn’t impact them, it’s a good way to blow off steam! :twisted:

by Larissa on December 12th, 2005 at 11:14 am
When you’re running a server, you get a whole new reason to hate spammers. You know how ours keeps crashing every once in a while? Yup, spammers. Sometimes because our spam filter program gets hung up, but mostly because spammers use programs to hack our email forms and send out spam. This makes it look like the spam is coming from *us*, not them, and if it isn’t stopped, services like AOL will ban us from sending newsletters to their subscribers.

So spammers aren’t just annoying. They break the law and cost web hosts time, money, and an insane amount of stress. Need I say that I hate them, too?

by Emma on December 12th, 2005 at 12:03 pm
Spam sucks and so do those invasion artists that attach their spyware/adware to your computer. HATE them. :evil:

by Teresa on December 12th, 2005 at 2:16 pm