Copied from my reply on an NFL board where offers of free ipods and flatscreens is happening.

"You know whats actually funny. Is that if people were a little more intelligable you would actually probably get free flat screens.

I work for an opinion resources company and we pay people 20 dollars cash to take a survey.

The trick with these free flat screens is the amount of people that have to sign up. I imagaine at least 12 people have to complete 1 offer for ONE person.

The trick is there is no trick. If it wasnt real they'd be sued up the ass and no one would ever get pop-ups for free stuff.

Like anything there is a catch. Like 1-2 month delivery time upon completing the required offers. But if you think about it, most people get half way to getting the free flatscreen and then quit. So companies are banking HUGE on the fact that YOU think its a scam.

Interesting...

So if everyone actually believed it. Signed up for the dang thing then cancelled before they paid a dime. People would have free flatscreens and companies would quit offering free shiz."

Some of the things they ask, like phone number and e-mail address, are not related to those phone calls during dinner to sell me a time share condo or the e-mail promissing me another three inches, right?

I'd rather have no ipod or flat screen and no spam, thank you.

I get ads for Viagra and Cialis every day. Does anyone actually try to order the stuff from the people sending out spam?

I once actually got in my e-mail an offer for breast enhancement. I passed.

My favorite spam was two different pieces promissing me 3 more inches. Another one promissed me to increase my cup size from an A to a D. (I don't how many transvestites order both. )

Only once? I get them all the time. But then I've been told that I get extraordinary amounts of spam.

I just checked today's spam in my "bulk" folder (the day is not even half over, and this does not count the dozen and a half that my spam filter missed and which showed up in my inbox)
73 pieces, including:

19 loan offers
16 free ipods, flatscreens, etc.
6 "X" of the month offers
6 dating services
5 medication discounts (not counting viagra/cialis)
4 Improve your length
3 viagra/cialis
2 Improve the potency of your sperm
1 improve the flavor of your sperm
2 business oportunities
1 offer of "swampland"
and 3 ads for printer ink/toner
The purpose of the rest are not as easily figured out from their subject lines. Nor am I nclined to open them to find out.


About a year ago, porn spam suddenly almost entirely dried up. Before then, My spam was more than double what it is now.

My university's spambuster cuts out most of the usual stuff (I've only had two Nigerian bankers asking for assistance, and no Viagra) but it compensates by throwing in university-based spam asking everyone in the world whether they want to join the playing-lacrosse-backwards-in-French-while-jumping-into-geosynchronous-orbit club.

Sorry, Thande, but that's not spam. It's their network, and they can do whatever the heck they want on it.

I've only had two Nigerian bankers asking for assistance Thande

These fraudsters look great with a fish on the head (419Eater) or in other interesting actions. Some people were even able to arrange arrests in co-operation with the South African police. It is interesting to note that these criminals often use phony websites for their actions. AA419 currently has 3000 such sites in their database.

It's still spam, ScottN. It's like saying advertising from the Postal Service isn't junk mail. (It's quite legal, but it's still junk.)

I frequently have messages about how to enlarge my.....male member, despite the fact that I don't have one (the "Toni" in my email confuses them), viagra offers and the breast enlargments (which I might be interested in, if I didn't think I'd fall over everytime I stood up :-)).

I subscribe to the Hotmail "Please tell us if this is junk" thing, but as soon as I've sent off one load, another 20 pop into my mailbox. I know they keep disguising the mail content with weird characters, but I think "Horney#chicks" should still flag up some sort of warning to Hotmail.

However, since I've won a National lottery somewhere, and that Nigerian bloke's been onto me about all this money he wants to give me, I'm happy. Have you tried Googling the guy's name? Someone wrote back to him, and has kept a couple of the emails. He told the Nigerian bloke that he had bought a speedboat and crashed it, so could he have $85,000 of his money up front? :-)

I subscribe to the Hotmail "Please tell us if this is junk" thing

That's your problem. Get off of HotMail. Try Yahoo or GMail.

I keep my Hotmail account on the "Exclusive" setting, so I can only get mail from addresses already in my address book.

Yeah, it's set to exclusive, but if anyone from anywhere sends me a mail (for example, if someone changes their email address and sends me a mail from that instead of from their old one), I risk missing them. I'm not really complaining, some of them are quite funny, I'm just curious that with all this effort on the part of Hotmail to stop junk, they still can't pick up certain phrases.

ScottN. is Yahoo seriously that much better? I thought that the reason my Hotmal account got so much junk and my Yahoo didn't was because I use the Hotmail one to open up any new contacts on the internet, whereas my Yahoo is supposed to be for friends and family (but some still have my hotmail address as my only address....).

Thanks, Electron for the websites, I want to have a good read of those! I don't think I'll be playing though...:-)

For email from people whose address I don't have, I keep a Yahoo account.

is Yahoo seriously that much better?

My Yahoo! Mail spam filter was very good about two years ago, then suddenly it started letting all kinds of junk through again. I would click the "This is Spam" button, but it was very slow to re-learn how to recognize the signs that an e-mail is junk. I get about 100 - 150 pieces of spam a day, and at this point, only three or four get through to my inbox.

I find the Yahoo! spam filter to be very good.

kept getting men kissing men in naked clothing,


also women kissing women in naked clothing.


yuchhhhhh

Naked clothing? I wanna get me some of that.

I have to ask. What is "naked clothing"?

G-strings?

Flesh-colored body stockings?

Jumbo shrimp?

guess!

We had spammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
for 74 days held by the texas hold em stuff.Did anyone actually access them sites?

Anyone else ever get job offer Spam?

nakid clothing. isnt that like the solar powered flashlight or a submarine with a screen door?

spam on nit again! phantom of opera? Help me Butch...

close the phantom of opera board spammmmmmmmmmmmm

Wrong board. Post it on Misc. Emergencies.

Of course, I'd rather get this spam. Spam, spam, spam, spam.

"Bloody Vikings"