We all get some email Spam I'm sure.

I've got varius Spam-blocking capabilities for the variety of email addresses I use:

Hotmail

Netzero

Juno

Yahoo

Gmail

and my primary ISP - Verizon


No matter how good the anti-Spam blocking filters may be, some get through every once in a while on each of them.


You probably have experienced the same thing.

In this thread, we can post just the Subject line of ones that get through which have a line that may have gotten in through the Spam blockers, but is so obviously bogus that you would never open it.

For example, I got this one this morning:

FW: ploughman preacher lvyu aqhvik

Well, duh. it's not hard to figure out that something is wrong with that, is it?

Here's another:

Re: Send so leap rotatory

Wazzat?

Have you gotten any weird ones like that?

How about those emails that appear to have no subject, non listed sender and containt NOTHING at all when you open them. I get them often.

Yeah, me too.

Good advice there -

if it is from nobody and has nothing in the subject line, it probably isn't worth opening.

So no one's reading the emails I send them??? (I have a bad habbit of leaving the Subject line blank unless its real important)

Well,

I'd be assuming that to somebody, you are not nobody.

well that does help explain the e-mail I sometimes get , but sorry if I don't know or recognize the sender, I don't open it and it gets marked as junk and then deleted
does every one set their mail to read as "plain text" or something a lot less safe like "html" ? (I have mine set to plain text for both send and receive)
I do get some doozy's , but nothing I could begin to print here but between my isp filter and T-bird it's kept to a good minimum.

Well to be honest I rarely get spam and have to date never remembered getting any from my current email address. Why? Probably because my email address is so long and a little bit unusual that many spambots likely miss it! I also use Yahoo email and it has the ability to great sub email addresses to help avoid spam, if I get spam from one of these addresses I can just delete that email address.

However I've found spam isn't always a problem with email. I once had a guestbook for a website I got rid of and when I last checked it there was a whole bunch of spam was in it. I either didn't have an option to enable screening of entries or I hadn't turned it on. Either way it sucked! However since the website it was associated with no longer exsists it's unlikely many people will find the guestbook in question, I hope!

This post has been edited by LilKitty: Sep 28 2007, 07:32 AM

Over the weekend my Spam filter caught a few, with these Subject lines:


"Re: Are eat fireman"

and

"Re: Go put tranquillize"


Uh, huh?

When you open one of those, what you're doing is signaling to the sender that yours is a valid e-mail address. It's cheaper and faster than sending 100,000,000 spams with actual content to randomly-generated e-mail addresses. Once they know the address is valid, then the real spamming can begin.

This post has been edited by MattV: Oct 20 2007, 09:16 AM

Spams with subject lines like those will almost always be for porno sites. Or sites peddling fat-pills. Or downers. Or uppers. Or hallucinogens. Or denial-of-your-true-age rubbish. Like those commercials that have you scrabbling for the remote, with it's "mute" button.

Yeah, those Viagra spams get old quickly!

I have absolutely no-idea what kind of Spam blocker my wife has set up on this computer.

But I do know that I am one of those wierdo's who still buys "Spam", and I Love It!

Wierd e-mail addresses I get all the time. But I'm also lyxdexic, driplexy, extremely handsome, or something my shrink told me, but I can read everyword that is sent to my "inbox" and even those in my "junkmail"