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The Story of "Nadine"
Guinnessy writes: "We've all accidentally typed in a wrong email address sooner or later. But can it all go horribly wrong? On http://www.spamresource.com there is the story of Nadine, an account of what happened after an Internet user accidentally gave a wrong email address when she visited a web page and signed up for a sweepstakes. Live in fear...."
Apparently the story is about a slashdotted webserver...
We've all accidentally typed in a wrong email address sooner or later.
Classic Slashdot grammar!
What you say?!?
Come on, give it up, that's
Lets start slashdoting spammers!
yeah, but at least it was the SAME Old news that it was yesterday!
Watch the Teaser Trailer for "The Lightning Thief" Her
kind of like mistyping a stock ticker? Buying 100 shares of SUN versus SUNW can be pretty pricey (and no, I wouldn't know anything about such an incident. I'll deny it all).
I purposely have done this.
/.), some legit commercial businesses, some obvious spam. The mailbox fills up roughly every 30 hours. I plan to continue this for a few months, until it will be impossible to distinguish my real name from the fake names. Whomever picks up the account next will be in for a treat as they open their account and start getting thousands of messages a day, random names, and all.
See, I signed up for a hotmail in it's early stages ('97). I used it for everything, including online purchasing, friends, family, you name it. At some point something happened-- one of the forms I filled out, or someone sold my same, and I started to get mail addressed to my real name, at that address. This semi-scared me.
So recently I went to cancel the account. Hotmail by default will consider your account "cancelled" after inactivity of 90 days. I cannot click something that says "Forever, never use this e-mail" My fear is that others will get this e-mail after I have cancelled it, and they will see my real name.
The best solution I have come up with is to fight fire-with-fire. I now sign up for every mailing list I can, each with a different real name. I now belong to over 400 mailing lists(including
It's so sad it's come to this.
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Sure thing. I always use either bgates@microsoft.com or president@whitehouse.gov, since those are the two people that really can do something to stop spammers, if they would only want to...
Dragging this offtopic, a good friend of mine was told to invest in Cisco Systems a few years ago. But he just heard the name and, being a non-techie, bought a bunch of shares in Sysco, the food services company.
Cisco went down, Sysco went up. Talk about pulling a Homer....
She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.
Now, if you really want to impress us, come up with a search that returns all pages in the correct order.
:)
I read the whole thing and I still don't know if she won the sweepstakes and then the poor dear didn't even hear about it or get her oodles of cash.
-pyrrho
Walter Igglebroggle
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Maybe some are, but plenty of them are not. I've received a fair amount of spam at my "af.mil" account. A short note to the owner of the spamming domain or advertised service, including some mumbling about misuse of federal government computer systems constituting a federal crime, usually shuts them up, without even needing to point out the fact that they're sending spam to an organization with precision GPS-guided munitions!
"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it." -- Olin Miller
The email talked about their time together and how she was having second thoughts when she called his house and his wife answered.
I responded that she must have the wrong email address.
You could have told her that your, that is his, wife was interested in a threesome and watch the sparks fly instead.
If you feel like a little mischief, mistaken identity can be a beautiful thing.
Some people have a way with words, and some people, um, thingy.
I do this too. I pity the poor bastard who has fuck@yougys.com
:)