Spammers - becoming members and contacting via PM.

[fatboy_1999]

Re: Spammers - becoming members and contacting via

Yeah, that could work.

I used to have a private game I christened:

Recycle Junk Mail Bingo.

This was when you got more than one bit of junk mail with a reply paid envelope supplied.
You took the junk mail from company A and put it in the reply paid envelope for company B and vice-versa. (Ensuring that you removed anything with your name or address on it).
Extra points could be earned for adding random recycling to the envelope. I once got an entire Corn Flakes package in a Citibank envelope!

Thus, you recycled, cost them money and had a bit of fun.

Surely we could embark on the electronic version if only we knew their REAL e-mail addresses!

[andy]

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Maybe we should all be replying to the viaga emails with the spammers email addresses.

[NewToEspresso]

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Ok, maybe not... I get enough people sending me emails offering cheap degrees and Viagra.

[flynnaus]

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No has contacted me... Dont know if thats a good thing or Im not important enough to make contact with..

No probs N2E - send us your email address and well sign you up for a few websites and forums. In no time at all you will be receiving lots of invitations to improve your physical dimensions, your..err..prowess ,and there are plenty of Russian girls eager to ensure you will never feel lonely or left out again. If for some reason that doesnt work, Ill share mine with you  :P

[NewToEspresso]

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No one has contacted me... Dont know if thats a good thing or Im not important enough to make contact with..

[gregpullman]

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Yeah didnt you hear? Ive just relocated to China and JavaBs now an adopted Russian! :

[andy]

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Just use the words "free" and "Tibet" and the Chinese government filters will block their access for you.

Cute idea.
;D

[Mal_R]

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Count yourself lucky with 20%. Just looked at the weekly stats on the Ironport spam filter at work and 93.9% - or 810k messages were spam. And none in my mailbox!

[bolb]

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Great suggestion Andy but it may generate a turf war ;D

I got one the other day and canned it.

Spam is a real pain, according to Message Labs global statistics, of the total volume of email they scanned for the last 12 months 54% of it was spam. Fortunately our own domain at work only attracts about 20% of our overall email volume as spam but i guess it will increase as its only a matter of time.

Mal

[mbg963]

Re: Spammers - becoming members and contacting via

Just use the words "free" and "Tibet" and the Chinese government filters will block their access for you.

[andy]

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...and the one that Linda and Thomas got today was from another China tamper spammer whos account was removed a week ago (and they made another called chuan6893 ).

I guess we could start telling them that everyone on CoffeeSnobs has a tamp but they should try over on coffee geek where the rest of the spammers hang-out!

;-)

[A_M]

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I had one today who wanted to make me a contact on msn, I quickly deleted and blocked them.

Andy, I sent you an email about it.  


-Linda

My reply was NO and I passed it on to Andy... However got a response before their account may have been managed.

More personable than many others... but just teh same... All the info is in the posts and forum... So with 1 posts and the direct approach.. smacks of SPAM.

NOTE: I do not have MSN or Skype any way :-)

Subject: Re: May I have your MSN please?
« Date: Yesterday at 16:59 »
Dear Anger,

Thanks so much for your kind reply.

I am working for a hardware manufacturer, and we mainly produce coffee tampers for cafes all over the world. Because of our food habit is different, I just know a little bit about coffee and coffee culture. In order to expand our coffee tamper market, let the cafe get competitive price and good quality from us, I think, know more about coffee culture would be useful for our tamper marketing, am I right? You should know that, In China, most of chinese like to drink tea, but not coffee.

Thank you very much for your kind attention. To this point, I hope that you could help me and give me so suggestions, your kind reply will be high appreciated.

Have a nice weekend!
Best regard,
<snip>

[LindaD]

Re: Spammers - becoming members and contacting via

I had one today who wanted to make me a contact on msn, I quickly deleted and blocked them.

Andy, I sent you an email about it.


-Linda

[Thundergod]

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There was an incident a little while back which was a local so they got a report or two to Fair Trading.

Unfortunately Russia and China is a whole different kettle of fish.

I have a few attempts at spam on a forum of mine.
Mostly Russian.
Not many these days as they have to manually set up an account.
I usually manage to block them before they come back to try their new account.

[Koffee_Kosmo]

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I may have been the first member to get spammed
and sent details to the Mods for quick action

I don’t like spam at all

It starts as a trickle and becomes a never ending flood
It’s best to stop it early

Andy give them the Dirty Harry option (no option at all) [smiley=evil.gif]


KK