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The Life of a Spammer

An anonymous reader writes "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran an interesting article today about the life of a "small time" spammer. It is interesting to note that even a religiously zealous grandmother can mire our inboxes with junk." That's Flo Fox, of Slidell, LA.

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  1. hmmm.... by Savatte · · Score: 4, Funny

    day 1: send emails
    repeat

    not that difficult, in my opinion

  2. subject title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I read this "The Life and Death of a Spammer"

  3. Ack! by JoeBaldwin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Innate respect for the elderly clashing with innate disgust for people selling me ways to naturally enlarge my cock! AAARGH!!! THE CONFUSION!

    1. Re:Ack! by mAineAc · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Innate respect for the elderly clashing with innate disgust for people selling me ways to naturally enlarge my cock! AAARGH!!! THE CONFUSION!"

      Ewww! just thinking about some old lady telling me how to enlarge my cock turns my stomach.

    2. Re:Ack! by d3faultus3r · · Score: 1, Funny

      there are losts of spammers in Florida, there are also lots of old people in Florida. Coincidence I think not! old people are spammers!

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    3. Re:Ack! by FsG · · Score: 4, Funny

      You mean the "embrace and extend" method?

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  4. Interesting Old Woman by Metallic+Matty · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It is interesting to note that even a religiously zealous grandmother can mire our inboxes with junk."

    The woman's age, grandmother status and religious strength aside, I'd still key her car if I ever saw it.

  5. Yay! by shumacher · · Score: 5, Funny

    My home town is on slashdot!
    Oh, great, it's about a spammer.
    Crap.

    1. Re:Yay! by gcaseye6677 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I couldn't find her house, but I think I found where she bought her computer.

  6. A religious grandmother wants to enlarge my penis? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm all shriveled up now.

  7. What WOULD Jesus Do? by adenium_obesum · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love Flo's t-shirt! WWJD? Ask if you need a bigger rod and staff, and yea, only He can granteth THAT miracle!

    1. Re:What WOULD Jesus Do? by Matrix+Revultions. · · Score: 5, Funny

      Makes sense. Jesus' followers have been spamming humanity for two millenia.

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  8. Emmancipation! by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 4, Funny
    The graying grandmother in a "What Would Jesus Do?" T-shirt proudly recalls stretching two turkey carcasses into enough gumbo to feed 100 of the city's poor.

    Jesus would prolly open up a can of whoop-ass when he finds out she's sending "XXX HOT LATIN TW1NKS XXX FOR FREE rqewgkjtqwertnb" to random 13 year olds. How about some divine retribution with a vulcan cannon?

  9. Life of a spammer? by egg+troll · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure I speak for all of us when we'd rather hear about the End of a Life of a Spammer.

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  10. Re:This Flo Fox? by The+Pi-Guy · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.cataloglink.com/
    http://www.catalogdir ect.com/
    http://www.catalogs.com/catalog/default. asp?

    A little bit of spam?

  11. OT- My last spam experience. by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Funny
    I spent a good hour this weekend going through 2004 emails, of which four!! were real messages.

    My company's mail server was filled and not accepting new messages. I've not had too much problem with spam before (I use yahoo mail, mac Mail, and Thunderbird on the 'Mail PC') My settings are off on the PC, set to not delete messages fast enough.

    I finally realized the rage that most /.ers display at spammers - I found mysellf wanting to personally kill each spammer.

    The title of this article is "The Life of a Spammer" - If the anger I felt this weekend is similar to others, I'm thinking the title should be "The Very Short, and Very Painful Life of a Spammer After Being Beaten By Angry People Who Don't Need A Larger Penis, Like the Interest Rate They Currently Have, And Don't Need Another Copy of Norton SystemWorks."

  12. Kings and Queens of spam by AndroidCat · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'm surprised that she claims to be a small time spammer. (Living in the same swamp as Scelson?) Most spammers in news stories claim to be some kind of spammer royalty. There have been a few pretenders to the "king of spam" throne and a spam queen or two.

    I'd like to see some variation. I'd like to see a spam pope.

    To be more accurate, I'd like to see a spam pope on a rope.

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  13. Re:How bothersome is spam for most slashdotters? by adenium_obesum · · Score: 4, Funny

    At my work, the IT section recently changed our domain, so all new e-mails coming into the old address, including spam, were both forwarded to the new address and sent an auto-reply informing them of the address change!

  14. Re:This Flo Fox? by WCityMike · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Spam.
    2. Agree to a newspaper interview identifying you as a spammer.
    3. Forget that your address and phone number is listed publicly. ...
    7. PROFIT!

  15. Re:RTFA by AnonymousNoMore · · Score: 4, Funny

    And you trust a spammer?

    Spammer is only part of it. I don't trust anyone with all that Jesus crap hanging on the walls.

  16. Re:This Flo Fox? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Fox, Flo
    127 Rue Acadian
    Slidell, LA 70461-5203
    (985) 646-2225

    Place collect calls to this number.

    "Why don't you just hit delete?" Why don't you have fun refusing charges all day?


    Alright man, thats just funny and thanks for the contact info. *evil grin* :D :D

  17. Re:This Flo Fox? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You are!? Well, in that case...

    Can you buy me an iPod for Christmas? Oh, and pay my tuition?

    I've been _really_ good this year.

  18. Re:uhm by d3faultus3r · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course not, she just sends viagra spam. Nice little loophole that is.

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  19. Re:This Flo Fox? by Hobbex · · Score: 1, Funny

    He would, American forces arrested him south of Tikrit yesterday...

  20. Found it by Gzip+Christ · · Score: 2, Funny
    any ideas what ip's she has assigned to her? I'd love to firewall her off preemptively.

    Here it is: 127.0.0.1

  21. Re:They need our understanding by JamesTRexx · · Score: 2, Funny

    worldroot# make world install

    Is that what you had in mind?

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  22. Re:double check (Re:This Flo Fox?) by dipipanone · · Score: 4, Funny

    what else can I ask her?

    Oh, I dunno. How about 'What would Jesus do?'

  23. Jesus, indeed by transient · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have only this to say: WWJD? JWSTFU.

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  24. Re:This Flo Fox? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Its a puzzle.

    What flavour do I get?

  25. Re:How harmful is spam... REALLY? by /dev/trash · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what you are saying is that spammers provide you with job security.

  26. Re:This Flo Fox? by Hrothgar+The+Great · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's times like this that I wish it wasn't a federal offense to send feces in the mail.

    Actually I wish that all the time.

  27. Re:This Flo Fox? by Unsolicited+Commando · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's times like this that I wish it wasn't a federal offense to send feces in the mail.

    Actually, only interstate feces is under federal jurisdiction.

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  28. Re:WRONG SLASHDOT GAVE HER INFO OUT CUZ SHES RELIG by Spruce+Moose · · Score: 1, Funny

    Make sure you get a copy of their sheet music first.

  29. Re:Boo Hoo by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny
    Let me explain -
    The media is based in New York. New Yorkers hate southerners. Anytime one gets in the news for any reason, they want to make them out to be as hateful as possible. Hence, out of all the spammers in the country, the found one in Louisiana, who is a religious nut (wearing a WWJD shirt, nonetheless), and paint her as a hopeless hick living in a shitty southern town. As a result, this is the average northerner's view of the south. Just be glad they didn't portray her as a KKK member.


    This is absolutely correct, and you deserve the "Informative" moderation you got for exposing it. Just last week we got the memo from our Jewish media overlords in New York, sent to all media conspiracy field offices across the South. It said, and I quote,
    "No more photographs of secular humanist spammers are to be featured in any press publication. From now on, all spammers must be represented as deeply southern and religious, and photographed prominently wearing WWJD shirts."
    This caused some problems for our agents at the Atlanta Journal Constitution, our local puppet news outfit, since of course most spam originates from the north of the Mason Dixon line, and the South offers a poor choice of spamming types at best. In fact all spammers to be found in the South are atheist carpetbagger Democrats who originally hail from the North. Luckily a shipment of creepy Jesus portraits and WWJD shirts to fit spammers of all sizes (S, M, L, and XL) was airlifted from Brooklyn and our staffers at the AJC got to work creating a backdrop of a heavily Jesusized trailer home. In fact, they used the same set that the government used to fake the moon landings. Naturally, Mrs. Fox, being a secular humanist and a spammer, has no convictions to uphold and was happy to oblige in aiding the Zionist media conspiracy in its mission of sliming the South in the eyes of Northerners, in return for money- which she promply donated to Dean's presidential campaign.

    I wish you the best of luck in unearthing this vast conspiracy to make you look like hicks.