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What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam
bednarz writes "For Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., the decision to abandon cyber-sense and invite e-mail spam into her life for a month by participating in a McAfee experiment was a bit of a lark. The idea of the Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment — which fittingly started on April Fool's Day — was to have 50 volunteers from around the world answer every spam message and pop-up ad they got. Mooney was game, especially since McAfee was giving a free PC to all participants. She told her story to Network World."
The Nigerian prince send her millions.
She got 1000 Valium for $4.
Her lover was more satisfied.
And she won an iPod.
And lived happily ever after. =)
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
myself when I was new on the internet. I didn't know at first that the unsubscribe on the bottom of the email was just a way to verify that it was a live address, so I got lots.
What I decided was that the companies that were paying for the spam must like it, so I would click on the link in the spam, find their customer service email and copy it. Then I went to google and entered "subscribe enter email". After that I spent quite a lot of hours signing these companies up for all kinds of email. I hope they liked it. When I had to put in a name I entered Spam War.
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
Because Macs are completely immune to spyware and viruses the Windows and Linux people have to worry about 24/7?
Yeah one time I found a linux virus! However I never did get it to run on my linux box...
I can just see it coming ...
To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, But this is from my good friend Pearlas Sandborn and she really is an attorney.
If she says that this will work - It will work. After all, What have you got to lose? SORRY EVERYBODY.. JUST HAD TO TAKE THE CHANCE!!! I'm an attorney, And I know the law. This thing is for real. Rest assured McAfee will follow through with their promises for this S.P.A.M. test mail.
Dear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. If you ignore this, You will repent later. McAfee is now the largest anti-virus software company and in an effort to make sure that their product remains the most widely used program, they are running an e-mail beta test.
When you forward this e-mail to friends, McAfee can and will track it ( If you are a Microsoft Windows user) For a two weeks time period.
For every person that you forward this e-mail to, McAfee will pay you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, McAfee will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, You will be paid $241.00. Within two weeks, McAfee will contact you for your address and then send you a check.
I thought this was a scam myself, But two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on. McAfee contacted me for my address and within days, I receive a check for $2,500.00. You need to respond before the beta testing is over.
Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.
Look, it's easy, you just go on any of the Linux support sites where you'll get lot's of helpful people telling you what a noob you are for not editing /etc/virus.conf properly and then recompiling the kernel and anyway, if you had used the right distro then you could have used apt-get or up2date to download the virus properly and...
init 11 - for when you need that edge.
Yeah one time I found a linux virus! However I never did get it to run on my linux box...
Really? it worked fine for me..
apt-get install virus
and it just worked.
Are you saying you want to put your "spam" in her "inbox"?
Anyone have networkworld.com crash FF3 repeatedly?
Yeah, Kefka got pretty mad.
For those using Ubuntu and Firefox, there's also this link apt://virus
On a slightly offtopic note, she looks kinda M.I.L.F.!
Oh oh, you just doubled the number of connection requests per second for networkworld.com.
You ment month.
You meant meant.
This guy's the limit!
The [X] I don't use apt, you ignorant clod! option:
"This is an open-source virus. Please delete some files at random and pass me along to 10 friends. Please don't break the chain. One sorry person broke the chain and the next day found someone had hacked into their computer and installed Vista."
There's a lib_compat_virus tarball in /pub/dist over at univ-mainz.de. Go get it and untar it. ./configure it with --enable-activex and --disable-pax, but also make sure to read the fucking install.txt for other configuration options relevant to your system. (I don't want to fucking hear from you if you don't RTFM!) Compile it with gcc 2.95, and sudo install it. Then edit /etc/virus.cf and set config_allow_tainted_nonGPL_virus to 0xFE. Your virus should work then.
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
Well you must be since you're implying you read the article...
You're nothing; like me.
I love getting pre-paid business return envelopes in my mail. That way I can just send all the stuff that they send me right back to them. They pay to send it to me, and they pay to get it all back from me.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
If it's from a spammer, do us all a favour - tape it to a box containing a cinder-block.
On a slightly offtopic note, she looks kinda M.I.L.F.!
That sound you're now hearing is half the Slashdot community clicking to actually "read" the article!
A bit, perhaps, but I view it as a practicality: They thoughtfully provide her with a replacement for what used to be her computer, but now is a smoking, virus- and trojan-infected hole in her desk..
I'll bet they didn't go to the site of TFA. Talk about pop-ups! :-/
I once got a virus for Linux, but somehow I didn't get it to compile.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Also shocking:
"'It grew exponentially, so I stopped giving out my home address,' she says, adding, 'I am concerned about the environment.'"
She gave our her home address.
Some is untranslatable. How do you spell \/!/\G3RRRA in German?
Everything I've ever learned the hard way was based on a statistically invalid sample.
there is a bofh joke in there somewhere...
MP3 Search Engine
This is God. And no, I won't get a life. You try living for eons upon eons and entertaining yourself. Go ahead, do it!
What I find ironic is that on the second page of this story about responding to spam and pop-ups, I got... wait for it... a pop-up.
Anyone else find it amusing that a page on the domain "networkworld" is slashdotted? Perhaps they should focus more on "networktown" or "networkhouse".
"apt-get"? "up2date"? Those are for n00bs, too. Real users download the virus source, build it, and then infect themselves with it.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
In order to win some new RAM
Tracy replied to all of her spam
Her account now abounds
in Nigerian Pounds
And her cock is the size of Wuhan.
The Prime Minister of Luxemberg gives you notice by his royal Appointment that you have been granted a lifetime supply of the Americanned delight. When finished with the spam, please ring the bell twice for the kitchen or once for the Federal Reserve despository.
why not send them some food? I'd recommend cheese. It's very nourishing,
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Nah. Real users get it running on Gentoo.
Mine's still compiling, but I'm sure it will work when it's done.
Custom, hands-free Linux installs. Instalinux
I get more than 5000 spam messages a day. They'd have to give me a lot more than a new PC.
I would have given them my former best friend's address.
fixed that for you...
back in the day when I had an IT that was carefree with the T3 - I had a script that would reply to unsubcribes, ~25K times per spam. Never seemed to hear from them after that...
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Na real users write the virus them self then infect them self with it.... hey have to test the code.
How did you get Firefox to do that?
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
See this is why Linux isn't ready for the mainstream. Regular Windows users simply double-click an .exe file to infect their machine. Sometimes, they don't even click anything, the website they visit does everything for them via ActiveX.
If you guys want a better Linux adoption rate, then make installing viruses easier dammit! :)
Best "String" Ever!
Pretty much the same way, actually. Except when you speak it you spit a little on the r's.
Translating to Spanish and Indian you roll the r's.
Giving a real, existing address to the scum of the earth can't be good for your health. Why didn't they set her up a PO Box or something?
With rising fuel oil costs, this may be the answer. Free fuel delivered to your door for your fireplace.
I wonder how long it will take spammers to catch on. It could be nice while it lasts.
The truth shall set you free!
Doesn't matter what spyware/crapware they put on it as long as you follow standard procedure. Wipe the bitch and install a crap free Os on it before the CPU is even warmed up.
Wait, do you mean a crap, free OS or a crap-free OS?
I have absolutely no spam problems:
"Two years from now, spam will be solved,"
BILL GATES, 2004
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/24/tech/main595595.shtml
Free fuel delivered to your door for your fireplace.
TinLC
That's all I got to say, no comment, move along, nothing to see here.
Strange it didn't work for me. Is my firefox broken?
It was a typical annoying survey too, many dozens of questions on incredibly vague topics like "Would you rate our site [that I visited once for 2 minutes] as one of the most trustworthy on the web for information about IT?"
Naturally I clicked through it randomly, except for answering that I'm responsible for "More than $1 billion in IT purchases"....
For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert. - Arthur C. Clarke