NationStates Jolt Archive

Pretty self explanatory..

I really hate the 911 one.. you know the "new york has 11 letter..so does george w bush...blah blah the quran 9-11 says the eagle will cleanse the land of allah" God i hate that with so much passion..I hate it how people are so prone to beleive that BS too..

The 'chain letter' ones... :rolleyes: fuck... they are SOOOOOO stupid. I know damn well that if I don't forward it, that I will still find a love. I don't need to forward a stupid chain letter to make sure it happens.

This is spam against spam. Kind of. :p

I just got the "men's rules for women" one for the eighty-bajillionth time. That wasn't even that funny the first time I saw it, which was about ten years ago.

The one I most hate. Vote for Labour! Make Britain even better! Blair is all for you! blah, blah blah...
In reality blair is the husband of georgre bush, who is a polygamist.

The 'chain letter' ones... :rolleyes: fuck... they are SOOOOOO stupid. I know damn well that if I don't forward it, that I will still find a love. I don't need to forward a stupid chain letter to make sure it happens.


Oh yeah...IF you don't want to have bad luck in love and sex for the next 76 thousand yrs then send this to 7 1/2 peopl in 31 mins and 2 secs...or you will die....that calls for a gun smile:mp5:

This is spam against spam. Kind of. :p


That would be ironic i guess :)

For reasons that would take too long to explain, all the spam I get is in German, and I'm not sure where my German dictionary is. I guess I could say the worst kind of spam is German spam, as I don't even know what it says.

Oh yeah...IF you don't want to have bad luck in love and sex for the next 76 thousand yrs then send this to 7 1/2 peopl in 31 mins and 2 secs...or you will die....that calls for a gun smile:mp5:
It was amusing the first and maybe the second time...

Now, this is why I like gmail - no more spammish shit! >_> except for the crap my dad sends me...

Yep, chain letters. As if my situation could possibly get any worse.

Plus, those "someone likes you, someone thinks about you right now"-mails. Yeah, right... :mad: Makes me prefer hate mail :eek:

It was amusing the first and maybe the second time...

Now, this is why I like gmail - no more spammish shit! >_> except for the crap my dad sends me...


Yeah my mummy is starting to send me crap now

Yeah my mummy is starting to send me crap now
My mom doesn't... then again, she only uses her computer for work at work...

In terms of pure stupidity, it would have to be the one where the e-mail warns you of the danger of a virus that spreads through your e-mail, and it's supposedly "pretty nasty"

Then in the next fucking sentence, they tell you to forward this message from someone you don't know to "everyone in your address book"

Yeah, I'll get right on that! :rolleyes:

I hate those "you are my friend" ones where it's got a line of text for every 20 lines you have to scroll through these syrupy animated gifs of puppies and kittens and the poem is like "did you ever know that you are my one true friend"

then when you finally do get to the end it's like "send this back to me if you are my real friend"

those.

and the "Christians outraged by......" ones that are pretty stupid stuff to get mad about and they always have the "call to action, if you aren't a coward you will forward this to all your friends, good Christians care abou this" ones. :rolleyes:

For reasons that would take too long to explain, all the spam I get is in German, and I'm not sure where my German dictionary is. I guess I could say the worst kind of spam is German spam, as I don't even know what it says.
:eek: So that's why I get only English spam. International interweb hiccups. But, eh, you can keep my German spam if I can keep your English spam - makes it easier to delete on sight. Also, I wouldn't bother with the dictionary - Viagra is Viagra is Viagra is Viagra...

What I hate most is actually the "spam" that a friend keeps sending.
It's a brain-melting combination of Zen-like "Friends are life's true happiness" power point drivel and the obligatory final admonishment to forward this shit to 10 people RIGHT NOW or you'll spend the rest of your life friendless and unhappy. Gah.

And of course she's so fucking sensitive, she just might have a nervous breakdown if I told her to fucking cut it out already!

I hate those "you are my friend" ones where it's got a line of text for every 20 lines you have to scroll through these syrupy animated gifs of puppies and kittens and the poem is like "did you ever know that you are my one true friend"

then when you finally do get to the end it's like "send this back to me if you are my real friend"

those.
That's exactly what I was talking about. *shudder*
Commiseration abounds.

For reasons that would take too long to explain, all the spam I get is in German, and I'm not sure where my German dictionary is. I guess I could say the worst kind of spam is German spam, as I don't even know what it says.

Hmm... I don't think i ever got german spam before, i never even got dutch spam for that matter, just spam in english... Hate all forms of spam though...

That's exactly what I was talking about. *shudder*
Commiseration abounds.
I keep wanting to send back an email that says "if you were my REAL friend, you would quit sending me SPAM"

but the person that sends it to me is like 96 and it's probably the only think keeping her alive, the thought that she can get up everyday and send me 40 emails with pictures of puppies in them. :(

The ones supposedly from a bank - you know the ones, the phishing ones. Asking you to follow a link and put in your details so thay can take them from you. Well, I'm Irish, and I seem to be getting a whole bunch of them form British banks, none of which I ever held an account with. And I get about 30-40 a week in my spam folder! It's gotten so bad that I've had to start reporting this stuff to the various banks.

That and one I took serious offence to: A porn site filled with rape and incest pictures. I got really upset when the pics flashed up on my inbox. If I could, I would have reported that sender to the authorities, but it was one of those generic, 'use lots of random numbers and letters in my address' addresses, so I wouldn't have gotten anywhere...

Once I caught someone using my email account for spam. I don't know what it said, but one day, some kid (somewhere around the 12 y.o mark) sent an email BACK to me. Not knowing where it had come from and why, I asked her to send a complete copy of the email she got, possibly with headers included, and told her NEVER again to answer an unsolicited email from ANYONE she didn't know well, for her own sake. Well, Yahoo sorted the whole thing out, traced the problem to some guy who had set up an email account to attach my headers to his spam. So pissed!

HA!

I just got an email saying that someone had made a purchase of a $3000 boat on my Master Card and that if I didn't want to ruin my credit that I should right now go to thier webage and enter my social securtiy number and my checking account number....

I don't even have credit cards, none, not even a Master Card. Stupid idiots.

HA!

I just got an email saying that someone had made a purchase of a $3000 boat on my Master Card and that if I didn't want to ruin my credit that I should right now go to thier webage and enter my social securtiy number and my checking account number....

I don't even have credit cards, none, not even a Master Card. Stupid idiots.


It's amazing how many people fall for these phishing emails though. It's really scary!

Best anti spam story I ever heard:

You know those spams that come out of Nigeria - you know, the one about the first Nigerian in space is still stuck up there 13 years later, and if you give us your bank account number, we'll transfer $50 million to your account to 'keep it safe for a while', etc, etc, etc, and then we'll cut you in on the deal, say, 20% share!

Well, one guy responded, saying, yeah, meet me at the such and such Hotel in Amsterdam on the such and such a date. So this Nigerian guy went there, and was stood up. So the guy emailed back a few days later, and said "I'm really sorry, I couldn't make it. But I'll guarantee you that I'll be at the such and such Hotel in Paris on such and such a date. Well, this went on for weeks, and the Nigerian guy was trundling all across Europe, spending a fortune on plane fares, etc, but then again, the promise of a small fortune was there, so he wasn't going to give up quite yet. Well, it went on for about three months, when the guy sent one final email:
"Listen, I really have to meet you. Can you come to London and pick me up? I've just killed my wife because she was getting wise to our little deal, and now the cops are out after me!"

Needless to say, the Nigerian guy was never heard from again!

I set the hotmail filter to "enhanced", so I rarely see any junk mail.

A few years ago the most spam I got was from people I knew at school. For some reason* these huge lists were in vogue where you read the sender's answers and then replace them with your own and send them back and forward to x number of other people. Not only were the lists inane, they were also stupidly long, so after the first one, I just deleted them on sight. But still, practically everyone I knew at school sent me it, sometimes more then once.


Currently the most annoying spam I get is from friends (everything else goes into my junk folder), usually the same person. Either ridiculousy sucky sentimental tripe or hoax virus alerts. Though he eventually stopped the later since I used to reply telling him it was bullshit with links from about 20 various sites also saying it was bullshit (remarkably easy to find btw).




*Well I know the reason - One person got one, then all hell was let loose in the school.

I set the hotmail filter to "enhanced", so I rarely see any junk mail.

Never get anything from "friends?"


Lucky bugger.

I find most email forwards to be annoying, especially the ones that circulate for years and still claim to be new after you get it for the two hundred bajillionth time. One of my co-workers sends a lot of forwards to people though, and last month she sent me this one:

My dear friends,

As the new year approaches, my heartfelt appreciation goes out to all of you who have taken the time and trouble to send me “forwards” over the past 12 months. Thank you for making me feel safe, secure, blessed, and wealthy.

Extra thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat crap in the glue on envelopes because I now have to go get a wet towel every time I need to seal an envelope. Also, I scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.

Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains. I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr Pepper since the people who make these products are atheists who refuse to put “Under God” on their cans.

I no longer use Saran wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer.

I no longer check the coin return on payphones because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS.

I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.

I no longer go to shopping malls because someone might drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer receive packages from, nor send packages by, UPS or FedEx since they are actually Al Qaeda in disguise.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, and Uzbekistan.

I no longer eat KFC because their “chickens” are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers.

I no longer have any sneakers — but that will change once I receive my free replacement pair from Nike.

I no longer have to buy expensive cookies from Neiman Marcus since I now have their recipe.

I no longer worry about my soul because at last count I have 363,214 angels looking out for me

Thanks to you, I have learned that God only answers my prayers if I forward an e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.

I no longer have any money at all - but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special email program.

Yes, I want to thank you so much for looking out for me that I will now return the favor!

If you don’t send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 7 minutes, a large pigeon with a wicked case of diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00 PM (CDT) tomorrow afternoon. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next-door neighbor’s ex-mother-in-law’s second husband’s cousin’s beautician.

Sincerely,
Your E-Mail Buddy


:D

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Excellent!! Must remember that one!!!

Never get anything from "friends?"


Lucky bugger.

What do you mean? I get spam with the "from" beingreal names, but they go into junk, so I dont read them. Or do you mean ones disguised as my actual contacts?

I find most email forwards to be annoying, especially the ones that circulate for years and still claim to be new after you get it for the two hundred bajillionth time. One of my co-workers sends a lot of forwards to people though, and last month she sent me this one:



:D
haha, I am snatching that for my own personal use.............:p :D