Random Ideas » Spam http://tequies.com/random-ideas Random Ideas from Tequies.com Fri, 06 May 2011 03:55:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Great! Now I get popup soup! http://tequies.com/random-ideas/2011/03/great-now-i-get-popup-soup/ http://tequies.com/random-ideas/2011/03/great-now-i-get-popup-soup/#comments Sat, 05 Mar 2011 03:36:14 +0000 john@tequies.com http://tequies.com/random-ideas/?p=836 Here I was, reading about an injustice, and up comes a popup. This is odd for the news site I was at. I calmly close the window and go back to my reading. IT POPS UP AGAIN!!! I have nothing particular against Campbell’s Healthy Request, but popups are sleazy and should NEVER come back up when closed. They seem to have contracted some pile of filth at “promotion.familytime.com” to perform a form of spam. I don’t know about you, but I will not be buying any form of Campbell’s product for my family. I am going to look at the label of every product I consider buying. If it’s connected to Campbell’s, it will be a product I doubt I will buy.

]]> Here I was, reading about an injustice, and up comes a popup. This is odd for the news site I was at. I calmly close the window and go back to my reading. IT POPS UP AGAIN!!! I have nothing particular against Campbell’s Healthy Request, but popups are sleazy and should NEVER come back up when closed. They seem to have contracted some pile of filth at “promotion.familytime.com” to perform a form of spam. I don’t know about you, but I will not be buying any form of Campbell’s product for my family. I am going to look at the label of every product I consider buying. If it’s connected to Campbell’s, it will be a product I doubt I will buy.

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]]> http://tequies.com/random-ideas/2011/03/great-now-i-get-popup-soup/feed/ 0 My penpal the spammer… http://tequies.com/random-ideas/2010/02/my-penpal-the-spammer/ http://tequies.com/random-ideas/2010/02/my-penpal-the-spammer/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:55:54 +0000 john@tequies.com http://tequies.com/random-ideas/?p=807 So, I open my email yesterday. What do I see nestled in my inbox? The most transparent spam I ever saw. Being the person I am, I HAD to mess with this filthy creature. Here is the original spam. I will follow it with the messages that were exchanged…

2010/2/12 Jon wells <test@raytrade.nl>

Attention:

Friend, How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family?, You may not
understand why this mail came to you.We have been having a meeting for the
passed 7 months which ended 4 days ago with the then secretary to the UNITED
NATIONS. This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any
part of the world,the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with
the sum of$600,000USD .This includes every foreign contractors that may have not
received their contract sum, and people
that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that
failed due to Government problems etc.

1) YOUR FULL NAME:
2) ADDRESS, CITY, STATE AND COUNTRY:
3) PERSONAL CELL PHONE, FAX AND MOBILE:
4) COMPANY NAME (IF ANY) POSITION AND ADDRESS:
5) OCCUPATION, AGE AND MARITAL STATUS:
6) COPY OF YOUR INT’L PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENSE:

Contact Mr.  David  Anthony immediately for your Cheque:

Person to Contact: Mr David  Anthony
Email:david.anthony@unn-gh.org

Making the world a better place.

With Regards,
General Jon Wells

Here is what I responded to them with:

To: jnwilliams49@aol.com
Sent: Sun, Feb 14, 2010 4:14 pm
Subject: Re: UNITED NATIONS1) Zaphod X. Beeblebrox III
2) 666 13th Ave.
3) (919)555-1212
4) Brevard, NC 28326
Butlick Inc. CEO
Contract killer
5) Widower
6) License revoked for driving… License to kill #01812

I did not expect a response, as my information was obviously at least as fictional as theirs. And yet, they responded:


On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:22 PM,  <jnwilliams49@aol.com> wrote:
Attention:Zaphod X. Beeblebrox

Subject to your compensation funds there are two ways in which you can get your funds either by Draft or by bank to bank transfer, if you wish to receive your payment via Bank Draft you will be paying for the courier fee which will cost the sum of Money or if you choose a bank to bank transfer.do choose from the given options and get back to me immediately.

Respectively.
Mr.David Anthony

At this point, my BS meter was pegging the red zone. So, of course, I had to mess with them just a LITTLE bit more:

Sent: Sun, Feb 14, 2010 6:10 pm

Subject: Re: UNITED NATIONS

I’m sorry, My faith requires that I do not transfer money through banks. The only couriers I am allowed to use by my faith are a special sect of Shakers who are sworn to special oaths of secrecy. Is there some way we can use their services?

It seems I did not lay it on NEARLY heavy enough, because they actually replied! But they did limit the information in their response:

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:54 AM, <jnwilliams49@aol.com> wrote:

Yes

Now I had to call BS on this crook:

Sent: Mon, Feb 15, 2010 7:03 am

Subject: Re: UNITED NATIONS

Is there a reason that a person claiming to work with the UN has all of his “Official” email going through an AOL account? Is there a reason for such a person to be sending email while the UN is currently closed for business due to a holiday in the US? Is there a reason such a person would agree to transfer fictional money through a fictional organization as the secret Shaker couriers to a person who claims to be a fictional character created by an author who has been dead for a decade? How stupid do you think I am and how stupid are you?

Surely, this time, they would just back off and admit that this victim was not getting hooked? NOPE!!! Here’s the short reply I got:

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:15 PM, <jnwilliams49@aol.com> wrote:


COME ON!!! So, I had to send a final reply after doing a WHOIS of the domain this criminal was saying his “Official UN” email was part of:


That email address is a fraud. That domain is registered to a private individual in California. If you are going to scam people, at least try to be original.


For those of you who may get these bogus emails, the domains that the UN uses are UN.ORG and UN.INT . Official messages will NEVER come from them through AOL.COM email addresses. And ANYONE willing to send money through secret financial sects of the Shakers to Zaphod X. Beeblebrox III, former president of the universe and CEO of Butlick Inc. is not sane or honest!!! OH! The HUMANITY!!!

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