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Thank you kind sir. I'm always suspicious of usernames that end in numbers, but this one checked out. I should have checked his IP address too.

He and his post have been properly dispatched.

Spam , spam ,spam , spam , bacon and spam

teejay Wrote:Spam , spam ,spam , spam , bacon and spam

If you like Spam, move to Hawaii, I understand they are the biggest users of that product in the world. Spam and eggs, Spam hash, Spam stew, surf and Spam, Spam a l'Orange to name just a few....

We've been good lately since we changed the security question. Rather than getting three or four robo-spammers registering each day, we now get one live one about every two or three weeks. That's pretty durn good....

"That's pretty durn good.... "
Yes it is!

Don , I don't get the purpose of spamming . What's the point of it all ...advertising something ? So the site ( wherever it may be ) figures it out and deletes the person , bot , Obi wan Kenobi or whatever ....what a waste of everyones time .

T

teejay Wrote:Don , I don't get the purpose of spamming . What's the point of it all ...advertising something ? So the site ( wherever it may be ) figures it out and deletes the person , bot , Obi wan Kenobi or whatever ....what a waste of everyones time .

T

Spammers are, in many ways, just like graffiti artists !

There "mark" takes a short time to apply, a lo-o-o-ong time to remove, and in the end, makes no sense at all ! Spammers, do have a larger audience, almost instantly, which is what makes them as annoying as mosquitoes in a sleeping bag !

"Fools names and fools faces are too often seen in public places"

Wowie Zowie ....what a great career , eh ? Can't you just see the parents bragging to the neighbours about their kids career ?

Neighbour : So , Jim , how's Scooter doing these days ?

Jim : He's doing great , Vern , especially after the disapppointment of losing that job at the carnival ...chief Tilt-A-Whirl operator ...

Neighbour : So what's Scooter into ...law , medicine ??

Jim : No , Vern , our Scooter has dedicated his life to spamming .

Vern : Aw , makes a parent proud , doesn't it ? Does it pay well ?

Jim : Sometimes it's not about the money , Vern , it's about pride and sense of achievement ....know what I'm sayin' ...he'll continue to live in our basement learn his trade .

teejay Wrote:Don , I don't get the purpose of spamming . What's the point of it all ...advertising something ? So the site ( wherever it may be ) figures it out and deletes the person , bot , Obi wan Kenobi or whatever ....what a waste of everyones time .

T

I could never understand the purpose behind those telemarketer phone calls around dinner time either. I always ask myself, how can someone bother you to the point that you're annoyed and even fuming mad , then expect you to buy what they're selling? That is beyond my comprehension, but it must work or they wouldn't do it since there are those few that actually respond to these calls and spam. So far today I turned down an absolutely free security system from one company and an absolutely free emergency call system by yet another company. One day, I got four, count them, four phone calls from "Rachel" telling me that there's noting wrong with my credit card, but her company is willing to help me anyway .... Google "Rachel and credit card" and you'll see that she is a national annoyance.

Spammers send out millions of messages a day, constituting about 75% of all email traffic. If they get .00001% response (10 out of 1,000,000), that turns into a good number of new "customers" every day. Somebody will respond to these messages and phone calls, and these people get paid for creating traffic, not sales. We respond to spammers within minutes, even getting them before they finish registering (I can't tell you how we do this), other sites are not as vigilant as we are and sometimes the spam sits there for days or weeks. Normal people hang up, ignore these messages or hit, "delete", that small percentage of those that don't are why there are spammers and telemarketers.

Don:
We finally moved to a phone system with call display and voice mail.
If the display says "unknown name" or "no number" we let it go to the answering machine. No message = no callback. If people we know don't leave a message, we may not call back.
The latest machine is improved; if they hang up fast enough we don't even get a null message.

Call display works perfectly for us ....we're pretty quiet folks , so pretty much know who will be phoning if and when they do . If it's unknown number , it doesn't get answered .
They've "supposedly " changed the laws up here about telemarketers but I don't know if it does any good .

T

teejay Wrote:.....They've "supposedly " changed the laws up here about telemarketers but I don't know if it does any good .

T

Well, TJ, you can put your name on the "Do not call!" list, but it appears that copies are forwarded directly to all of the call centres in India. My calls more than doubled after getting on that list, and what's equally surprising is the popularity of North American-style first names in that country, even though "Mark" and "Justin" et al can barely speak English.
Some of the ones shilling for duct cleaning get rather agitated when I tell them that I have no ducks, but if I did, I would probably clean them myself - they're usually in water anyway. When they attempt to correct my diction, I very patiently explain the local laws governing the keeping of livestock in residential areas, which often results in a language lesson from them in their native tongue. I couldn't offer a word-by-word translation, but I daresay using those words in their country, as a tourist, would probably get me locked-up.

Wayne

We did have the " duck cleaners " about 2 years ago ....called 3 or 4 times until I used a word slightly different than " duck " ...and apparently more effective ......because Justin or Ramjeet didn't call back .

I think I got 1 email from Nigeria ....few years ago ......apparently I'm a wealthy man because of some billionaire over there if I just help him out by showing "good faith " ....yeah and pigs fly .

What a changed world , eh ?

BR60103 Wrote:Don:
We finally moved to a phone system with call display and voice mail.
If the display says "unknown name" or "no number" we let it go to the answering machine. No message = no callback. If people we know don't leave a message, we may not call back.
The latest machine is improved; if they hang up fast enough we don't even get a null message.

I have mulled over doing that. Our phones are all equipped for that and if we don't pick up after four rings, the machine will.

teejay Wrote:We did have the " duck cleaners " about 2 years ago ....called 3 or 4 times until I used a word slightly different than " duck " ...and apparently more effective ......because Justin or Ramjeet didn't call back .

I think I got 1 email from Nigeria ....few years ago ......apparently I'm a wealthy man because of some billionaire over there if I just help him out by showing "good faith " ....yeah and pigs fly .

What a changed world , eh ?

I got tired of one robo call and waited to "press 1 for more info", and used a word like you did. The guy told me that I'd never get off the list now because I swore at him... Good people.

A few weeks ago I got a call for "Microsoft support" telling me that I have a problem with my computer. The caller was obviously in India, so I decided to have some fun with him. He's ask a question and I'd give him a answer he was looking for, or I'd give him a totally different answer. He'd ask, "what do you see on your screen?", I'd answer, "I'm doing fine, how are you doing?" Then I'd tell him about my lumbago, or how he kids never call from college, or how my wife burned dinner. One time he asked, "what are you doing to protect your computer?" I told him, "I just wrap it in a condom and it gets all the protection it needs." He really tried to play it straight, but I think I heard him chuckle once or twice..... Sometime we all need to do this, that way you waste their time and have a good time doing it.

Speaking of East Indian call centers , do any of you watch Jimmy Kimmel Live ...not on until midnight , but from time to time they do a comedy routine of 4 East Indians at a call center . It is funny .

T