By the frequency of the almost identical emails that land in my inbox I’m guessing I’m not the only one getting spam that follows this pattern.
Hello! I am tired tonight. I am nice girl that would like to chat with you. Email me at Maria@****.com only, because I am using my friend’s email to write this. To see some pictures of me.
Here’s an idea. If you’re tired, go to bed. Get some sleep. Then you won’t have to keep emailing people you don’t know, offering to send them pictures of yourself.
By the way, another hint, nice girls don’t generally offer to forward pictures of themselves to complete strangers. If you don’t see a problem with that kind of behaviour talk to your mum, she’ll explain.
I’m not even going to begin to critique your use of the English language. I’m guessing that the sad, obese, mid-fifties, chain smoking guy who has never had a successful relationship in his life, who is sitting in his darkened study sending out these emails, wants me to think that you’re a gorgeous, nineteen year old nymphette from Russia who desperately wants to hook up with an overweight mid-forties guy like me.
Sorry to spoil your fun but I’m happily married and I don’t need pictures of who you’re pretending to be. For that matter, I need pictures of who you really are even less.
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Because of the popularity of my two sites MXskinz and SkinsGallery, I get an enormous amount if this kind of nonsense.
For my MXskinz email, sadly, I don’t even open it anymore. I call my hosting and ask them after so many months to delete it all for me.
On SkinsGallery, I have unticked it to download each time my mail program runs, saving it for a time when I can be vigilent.
Other than those two precautions I have to take, I am so immuned to it…I’ve had MXskinz since 1999…I guess I have seen every possible email trick.
I feel sorry for someone who possibly is legitimate and they might have put something in the subject line that just happens to look suspicious and it’s not.
Sometimes I just don’t open anything.
I’ve got fairly good spam filtering but they still get through, thankfully just not as much.
The sad thing with spam is that it is only a very small percentage of people who respond but becuase they send out so many of their messages they still make a very good living from clogging uip our mailboxes.
Barbara, it’s sad that you have to miss out on your legitimate email just so that you don’t have to wade through all the rubbish.
Amen. Very well put Rodney!
You think that there would be a way to put an end to all of this. I’m in the same boat as you and get a lot of this crap. The best times are when you respond to the spammers and take up their time so that they can’t bother others…
yes thankfully my anti-spam picks up most of this… and i have a separate gmail account i use on the net – which seems very efficient at blocking this kind of stuff.
it helps if you have your private email, then a separate one of the free-online ones for all your online use (blogs, facebook, filling out forms)… then at least the majority of the spam is only in one account, and if legit people go there you can always then give them your real address.
Very well written! 🙂
That wave of spam didn´t make it over here yet, but I´m prepared now to have a very ugly pic inside my head 😉
Thanks Brian. I figure I can let these emails annoy me or I can get some humour from them. 🙂
Thanks for your comments, Rob, and thanks for the Stumble.
I try not to respond to spammers. I try to hide and hope that they’ll go away.
I just wish that there was an email I could return to them that would blow up their computers upon opening. 🙂
I’m a bit like you, Deano. I have a number of accounts and I do find that Gmail has pretty good spam filters.
I like the way you put that, Iris. Yes, spam certainly comes in waves. It’s amazing that the same or similar messages seem to pour into the inbox for a period then disappear before others start to show up.