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Bastable

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 08:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Industry experts say that the cost to spammers is so low that sending bulk spam can be profitable even if only 1 in 100,000 recipients responds to an electronic sales pitch. Meanwhile, the average American gets an average of 110 unwanted messages a week (or 22 a day!), according to the Washington Post (Friday 2/22/03).

Someone's got to be sending these folks money or they wouldn't still be in business.

C'mon, you're among friends. You can be honest... have you ever taken the spammers' bait?

And if you have, were you satisfied with the product or service you bought?

Kristylovesbb

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 09:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, since you put it that way......... I did. I ordered Coral Calcium, two cases cause I wanted the best deal. Still cost a bundle. Hey I almost bought the HGH to.

Kristylovesbb

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 09:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I forgot to post the results of the purchase. I am happy with the product. You guys have to excuse me tonight, too many Millers.

Kaili

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 09:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No, but I have realized that if you try to "unsubscribe" to certain ones (and I wish I knew which one did this to me, you end up signing up for ten million more?! Every day I have at least 15 junk mails. I'm not even unsubscribing anymore cause I'm scared it'll get even worse!

I hate "dandyoffers"! Grrrr!!!!

I don't even use my email for signing up for stuff- I have a different account for that kind of stuff. Maybe it's time to start over again...

Melfie1222

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 09:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kaili... you got it! do not unsubscribe, since you did not subscribe in the first place!

The spam I've often received is just what you might find in the advertisements in The National Enquirer. So I guess the same people subscribing to that might be looking for... the Human Growth Hormone... or the secret to lowering your mortgage rate to ZERO...or the only place for singles (or bored lonely housewives) in your area.

Abby7

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 09:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kaili: That's exactly what happen to me. I had had it with spam so I patiently "unsubscribed" to each and every one. NOW, since doing that it has gotten out of hand. I, too, am afraid to unsubscribe ever again. No, I have never responded to spam.

Isn't there a way to get rid of it? Anyone? Just minutes before I found this thread, I was just complaining to my husband about spam. Also, I get porno e-mail about twice a week. Lately, a pop-up message comes up talking about a porno site. Why?

I remember reading about 6-8 months ago that Yahoo? (I think it was Yahoo) gave out e-mail accounts to several spammers so to expect getting more spam. Sorry, I'm (obviously) not clear anymore on it....does anyone remember anything about this? I forget now.

Melfie1222

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 10:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Abby7... ditto what I said to Kaili... DO NOT unsubscribe... the address you are replying to is almost always invalid, but the fact that you replied means that whoever spammed you in the first place gets a reply that they reached a current and valid email address, and they will pass it on... and you might end up getting more spam than ever.

Melfie1222

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 10:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I didn't mean to hijack this thread and turn it into an anti spam do's and don'ts... I am also curious about who buys this stuff.

Back to Bastable's question.

Abby7

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 11:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, sorry...didn't realize I had hijacked the thread.

Melfie1222

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 11:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Abby... no, no, no!!!
I meant I was worried that I had...

Melfie1222

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 11:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well I'll just shut my mouth for tonight.

Juju2bigdog

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 06:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Never responded, never will.

Squaredsc

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 06:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
no i have never responded to spam, i hate spam. kaili, i also have a 2nd acct that i use when signing up for stuff. that way i just go in once or twice a week and delete everything there. but its a pain in the neck.

Merlin

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 06:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Just a reminder to the old folks on TVCH, the title of this thread would have originated a totally different response exactly two years ago.

Draheid

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 06:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have never responded to any SPAM either.

I mainly wanted to say, though, that even opening a SPAM e-mail can cause you to be 'registered' as a valid e-mail address and cause you to begin receiving even more spam then before.

What happens is the sender will put a link with information about your e-mail address and, when you open the first e-mail, that link goes to their server to leave information about you and prove that your address works.

My suggestion is that you don't open anything that you are not 110% sure of the content and who it is from.

FWIW

Squaredsc

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 06:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
dra, i use the preview pane in outlook, is this the same as opening the msgs?

Cyn

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 07:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have one personal email account that I use regularly and I never get spam there. I have never used this address outside of friends and foes, so I never receive random spam in it. However, I have another email account that I use for on line stuff. I print my receipts and stuff and delete everything else. It fills up with spam pretty quickly. Every two weeks or so, I go in and delete the whole inbox without even reading the subject lines. My work email receives special offers for special discounts at certain stores with the special coupon, but I never use it. My goal when shopping isn’t price, so I tend to buy things that won’t need replacing and tend to believe that a snazzy offer is just a snazzy line so I delete spam. I never open it.

However, I prefer spam to paper mail any day and totally think it's an effective advertising means.

Draheid

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 07:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Squaredsc: Yes, it can be the exact same thing since, in order to properly display the preview, if there are an linked graphics or other elements to the message, it has to go out and get them from another server also.

Grooch

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 07:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Merlin, lol!

Merlin

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 07:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you Grooch.....I was beginning to think no one got that one.

Grooch

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 08:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Merlin, I think it might be a good thing that no one else gets it.

Merlin

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 08:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, you never know what you will catch unless you go fishing and throw the first lure.

Wink

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 08:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Unless you're very familiar with the fishing hole.

Merlin

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 08:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wink, I am going to assume you got it also? If two people can understand me in one day........I am complete. I think I will go do some power shopping as a reward to myself.

Wink

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 08:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Of course I got it. I've forgotten a lot of things but I'm not brain dead.

While you're out powershopping don't overthink your purchases.