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Heh_
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Singapore2712 Posts
October 15 2012 17:17 GMT
#1
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No, not this mystery meat, I'm talking about the ones in your email inbox.

Spam in your inbox. Something which we're all familiar with. The older your email account, the more spam it gets. The spammers probably got your email address from site shady website that you registered on, by hacking address lists of friends, from chain mails that got forwarded a million times, or bulk emailing random email addresses.

Spam comes in many shapes and sizes. It's really quite funny to read these spam mails caught in your filter. Some try to get you to click on a shady link, either to get clicks for advertisements or to download viruses. Others try to convince you to help out a 'friend in need', aka some random Nigerian prince. It's pretty damn amazing that to this day and age, people still get fooled by them. It's like downloading a file named "p0rn.jpg.exe" from some shady website.

I was searching through my spam filter out of boredom, and came across a few interesting ones that I'll share here:

JV Enterprises
550 Hillview Drive, SE 18 7NL,
South East London.
England.
Tel: +44 770 880 0114..
Email; jvickersx77@yahoo.com
Dear Esteemed Supplier,
We are a fast growing supplier, we saw a similar product on a trading
site, So please confirm to me if your Company can make provision for
exact products as shown on trading site.
We await your response with quotation and specifications immediately to
enable us proceed with order placement.
Ѓ@
Thanks,
Mr John Vickers
Managing Director,
JV Enterprises

Such spoofing would be better if he got his facts right... Firstly the address is wrong. 550 Hillview drive is not in SE18 7NL. Next, people in the UK don't write it as SE 18 7NL, they'll write it without the space between SE and 18. Finally, looking up the original email, the message was sent from schuelerpaten-berlin.de (that's not UK) and the reply-to path leads to a different email (jvickersx77@yahoo.com)... So much fail.

Let's take a look at another fail spam post:
LinkedIn
REMINDERS
Invitation reminders:
• From linkedin.com (Gwen Baker)

• There are a total of 3 messages awaiting your response. Visit your InBox now (hyperlinked).
Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings (hyperlinked.

The message structure got disrupted, but you get the idea.
Who's Gwen Baker? Don't know her. If you mouseover the hyperlinks (indicated), they link to a bunch of weird websites that I'm not experiment with... Also I'm receiving a ton of these spam messages, I don't think I'm THAT popular on linkedin though..

I have a ton more spam mail, too many to share here. I could just change my active email addresses, but that only delays the inevitable swarm of spam. Oh well, I'll just treat them as entertainment when I'm sitting around waiting for my restriction enzymes to work~

***
=Þ
MysteryMeat1
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States3292 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-15 17:27:34
October 15 2012 17:26 GMT
#2
someone called for me.



5 stars just because of the topic

EDIT: I think there was a thread about spam messages that were pretty funny.
"Cause ya know, Style before victory." -The greatest mafia player alive
Heh_
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Singapore2712 Posts
October 15 2012 17:38 GMT
#3
On October 16 2012 02:26 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
someone called for me.



5 stars just because of the topic

EDIT: I think there was a thread about spam messages that were pretty funny.

LOL dafuq your nick!

At one point in time, there was a proliferation of people from politically unstable areas trying to get money out of the country. From Nigerian princes, it expanded to royalty and businessmen from Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan... the list goes on. One would think that the ridiculous claims and the grammatical errors/typos should have made these emails really dubious, but people still fall for them. I guess gullible is not a word in the English dictionary..

I have a lot of spam mails for Canadian pharmacies/viagra/antidepressants. -_-

Thanks for the 5 stars! <3
=Þ
reincremate
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
China2213 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-15 18:06:00
October 15 2012 18:03 GMT
#4
I rarely ever get any spam in my hotmail inbox (I don't use email enough to use my gmail) for whatever reasons (e.g., less than 10-year old account, small number of regular contacts). The most common spam that I get maybe once a week is fake Blizzard "give us ur account info" emails that I started getting ever since I made an SC2 account.
MysteryMeat1
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States3292 Posts
October 15 2012 18:04 GMT
#5
oh yah, i've won the nigerean lottery about 4 times now.

And a few princes were hitting on me but i said no homo, and i deleted their love messages.
"Cause ya know, Style before victory." -The greatest mafia player alive
StateofReverie
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
United States633 Posts
October 15 2012 18:34 GMT
#6
I don't change my email, I just get a new one all together. It's a pain, but hopefully I will be able to keep spam under control this time. Whats that thing they say, 10th time the charm right?
Heh_
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Singapore2712 Posts
October 15 2012 18:54 GMT
#7
It would be interesting to correlate sudden increases in spam with signing up on certain websites. I've also experienced a small surge in fake Blizzard spam when I registered for something on battle.net.. Stopped after a while. The coincidence in timing makes me wonder if Blizzard's stuff is compromised..
=Þ
FlyingToilet
Profile Joined August 2011
United States840 Posts
October 15 2012 19:04 GMT
#8
Yeah i got yahoo email so i have to sift through the millions of persian emails threatening my homeland
http://justin.tv/flyingtoilet
TheKefka
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Croatia11752 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-15 20:19:11
October 15 2012 20:13 GMT
#9
Thought this was a QQ thread about Blindrawr,probe1,drazerk,torte and the like.
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Kurr
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada2338 Posts
October 15 2012 20:13 GMT
#10
1 star because you reminded me of that terrible "food".

What a terrible person you are.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ | ┻━┻ ︵╰(°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Heh_
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Singapore2712 Posts
October 15 2012 20:36 GMT
#11
Konadora is the king of spamposts. 40507 posts, 30.09 average posts per day. Torte has higher post/day (31.23) but he has 16k less posts..

Why 1-star me =( Spam mystery meat is quite nice, as long as you don't eat too much of it. =/
=Þ
solidbebe
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Netherlands4921 Posts
October 15 2012 20:41 GMT
#12


http://www.cracked.com/article_17270_100-unintentionally-hilarious-spam-subject-lines.html

5/5 star because now the bookmark of that site has finally paid off
That's the 2nd time in a week I've seen someone sig a quote from this GD and I have never witnessed a sig quote happen in my TL history ever before. -Najda
Deleted User 135096
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
3624 Posts
October 15 2012 21:40 GMT
#13
lolwtf dat site redirect! whoever did that was brilliant lol (either that or it was an incredible coincidence).
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Temerarious Trout
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
174 Posts
October 15 2012 23:24 GMT
#14
Your prose reads like a tribute to ShadySands :D
Feel it first, think about it later
Heh_
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Singapore2712 Posts
October 16 2012 00:10 GMT
#15
On October 16 2012 08:24 Temerarious Trout wrote:
Your prose reads like a tribute to ShadySands :D

Hmm.. not intended. If I switched "shady" to "sketchy", would it be any better?
=Þ
Temerarious Trout
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
174 Posts
October 16 2012 00:15 GMT
#16
On October 16 2012 09:10 Heh_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2012 08:24 Temerarious Trout wrote:
Your prose reads like a tribute to ShadySands :D

Hmm.. not intended. If I switched "shady" to "sketchy", would it be any better?


Nah it's okay.

I tend to wonder about the kind of people who would download files like "dubstep.mp3.ogg.exe" though.
Feel it first, think about it later
Heh_
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Singapore2712 Posts
October 16 2012 01:08 GMT
#17
On October 16 2012 09:15 Temerarious Trout wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2012 09:10 Heh_ wrote:
On October 16 2012 08:24 Temerarious Trout wrote:
Your prose reads like a tribute to ShadySands :D

Hmm.. not intended. If I switched "shady" to "sketchy", would it be any better?


Nah it's okay.

I tend to wonder about the kind of people who would download files like "dubstep.mp3.ogg.exe" though.

Recently there was a slight uproar over skype viruses getting distributed. Apparently you get the virus by accepting "dubstep.mp3.ogg.exe" from unknown users.. So yeah there's plenty of people who would download such sketchy files..
=Þ
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