Trash Talk - ...wtf? Cerium - Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:10 am Post subject: ...wtf?
So I went to clear out my spam folder today, and noticed something:
http://hybrid.shanky.com/wtf.png
Out of all the spam I receive, only 10% of it is in english.
So, what the hell? I dont visit any sites that use these languages, mostly because I can only speak/read one language, and even that depends on how intoxicated I am.
Aside from web crawling bots, and spam companies selling lists of names, how do I get my email on these foreign spam lists?
And secondly, wouldnt it make sense for them to spam me in a language I can understand? Clearly if they got my email off a site thats 100% english, wouldnt it be fairly clear that I speak english?
Bah.
Maverick - Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:00 am Post subject:
maybe your name means something in that language and its quite obvious its being spammed. Maybe Cerium means something like "postmaster" or something like that.
Cyan~Fire - Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:49 am Post subject:
I like the "^ ^*" appended to the subject lines. Probably translates to "Hey, you wanna come sleep with me because I'm a 15 year old American slut who watches anime and thinks she's fitting in with the Japanese stereotype?", thus making the "^ ^*" a requirement.
Cerium - Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:26 am Post subject:
Well, Cerium is an element, mostly used for manufacturing glass.
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Ce/key.html
The worst part about this is: Im pretty sure most of them are trying to explain my inability to please my significant other without their penial enhancement.
How do they all know?!
newb - Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:23 pm Post subject:
Lmao. The Japanese/Chinese/Koreans have something agaisnt you.
CypherJF - Wed Jun 22, 2005 2:39 pm Post subject:
I've been getting those dumb "your free gift card for <> is here!" e-mails other than - been sailing on calm waters.
Contempt+ - Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:57 pm Post subject:
Sometimes people can get ahold of your e-mail address, and sign you up for a whole bunch of crap. It's happened to me before.
Purge - Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject:
Yeah, but Gmail does a good job filtering out the spam.
GENERAL_SLAYER - Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject:
and i thought my spam was bad newb - Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:00 am Post subject:
GMail is the best e-mail service I have ever come across.
Anonymous - Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:11 am Post subject:
The main pages of Shanky.com and its sub-domains are under close watch of crawlers.
You'll be suprised at the amount of spam I got from Mine Go Boom and myself (nothing like being spammed by your own mail address) even.
It was since then that I started posting news with a faux email.
Mine GO BOOM - Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:11 am Post subject:
Ex-Gravitron wrote:
The main pages of Shanky.com and its sub-domains are under close watch of crawlers.
Every public site is. And yes, news@minegoboom.com is still heavily spammed against.
liito-orava - Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:34 pm Post subject:
newb wrote:
GMail is the best e-mail service I have ever come across.
Except that has some insane limitations like it doesn't allow .zip attachments. (or at least didn't while I still used it).
Purge - Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject:
It permits .zip, but you can't have an EXE or DLL or any other executable file in there. If you want to send those, you'll have to RAR it up.
Anonymous - Fri Jun 24, 2005 2:06 pm Post subject:
C:\>rename filename.exe filename.run
Then zip it.
D1st0rt - Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:07 pm Post subject:
I use file.zip.doc
You can really use any extension you want that doesn't use ASCII to send (ie .txt)
Ken the Great - Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:20 am Post subject:
newb wrote:
GMail is the best e-mail service I have ever come across.
agreed =)
Anonymous - Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:16 am Post subject:
I use hotmail and never got any spam o.O
