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 Posted: Sat, 7th Jun 2008 10:47 Post subject: Hotmail |
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What's up with it these last few weeks? I'm getting tons of junk mail like: Congratulations you have won this n' that... It wasn't like this before... I get at least 5 junk mails a day... Anyone else with the same problem?
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Jun 2008 12:04 Post subject: |
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Either you replied to one of their emails or you signed up somewhere with your email.
And maybe maybe maybe you just forwarded something like this: "zomg, ze lions are going to die, please forward zis mail to sausends of your friends! AOL will spend 1 dollar for every forwarded email! Your's Nigerian King Kongo" and the email finally arrived somewhere, it shouldn't.
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Jun 2008 12:23 Post subject: |
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You don't even have to give your email anywhere for you to get spam. If your email is based on your name then I'm sure someone has figured out a way to generate random emails using commonly used names or even a telephone directory and then bombard them with spam. The chances are good that many of those randomly generated email addresses really exist.
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Jun 2008 16:20 Post subject: |
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I once tested how bad spam is. I made a email account on hotmail and just let it sit. Never signed up for anything and never used it once. Eventually the spam will just came rolling in. My guess is that they seem to randomly guess emails most likely with a generator. If that email comes back with a error about it not being received then they ignore it but if it doesn't then obviously its a real email address and they will continue to spam it... Also I am sure that spammers trade or even buy emails addresses from each other.
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deelix
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Jun 2008 16:31 Post subject: |
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Is your email address 1234@1234.com or asdf@adsf.com? Because I ALWAYS use those to sign up for shit. Whoever owns them has got to be pissed.
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LeoNatan
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deelix
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Jun 2008 17:23 Post subject: |
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Jenni
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Jun 2008 17:26 Post subject: |
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Kinda rules you out.
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Cohen
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Jun 2008 20:01 Post subject: |
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Ha ha... good one Leo. I never reply to any of those chain stuff some of my friends send... that goes straight to waste bin  . I have hotmail adress for over two years now, and it has never been like this... maybe I will try that hotmale 
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sun, 8th Jun 2008 01:25 Post subject: |
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Now seriously, set the Hotmail inbox settings to put all mail from unknown senders to the spam folder. Then check it once a day for legit male ().
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| Posted: Sun, 8th Jun 2008 04:04 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun, 8th Jun 2008 16:46 Post subject: |
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I guess you already tried setting your filter to a higher privacy setting.
I use hotmail and haven't noticed an increase. I get about 5 or 6/day. I just delete them.
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| Posted: Sun, 8th Jun 2008 18:27 Post subject: |
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Hotmail randomely gets spam, it's one of the biggest email providers.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
In all your remembering, remember that you have choices
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| Posted: Sun, 8th Jun 2008 18:31 Post subject: |
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what is your email, that way I can check if you'r listed on spamthreads, I own a website which can remove emails from spamminglists:ROFL:
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spankie
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jun 2008 03:02 Post subject: |
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Marketing in general is a huge business.
And you don't wanna know what they do with your home address/phone number. Its sick.
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jun 2008 03:46 Post subject: |
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Nothing sick about that, dude.
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