PHISHING

frank_f15 · Jan 23, 2005

i NEVER DO click on the links. i usually just delete them. but it sure is frustrating.

Moon · Jan 23, 2005

( As to the question posted previously asking how to "bounce" my email program has "bounce" as a built in feature )

Hey Bob,
What email program are you using? That would be a handy feature to have.

Thanks
Moon

Henro · Jan 23, 2005

I think I saw an example here recently...

Someone reported their solution to water condensing in their loader valve was adding anti-freeze to their hydraulic fluid!

I assume that poster was phishing... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif ... so to speak...

Have to get back to that thread and see what else evolves... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

btolle · Jan 23, 2005

Please don't bounce spam. It creates an unnecessary load on the Internet and never does any good. The return address is "spoofed" (false) anyway so the spammer never see it.

NEVER click on a link in a phishing email. As someone has already said, the scammer may have your email tied to a serial number to identify you.

Don't bother to fill out the forms with bogus information. The spammers are used to that and are such jerks they are not offended by name calling and so forth.

The only way we will ever slow the spam down is to NEVER buy anything from a spam email no matter how attractive a price is.

The reason spammers are still in existence is that they are making money from those who click on the links and buy from them! They don't care if they only get 1 sale for every 100,000 emails they send out. They send out millions for little more than they can send out one so it pays off.

Unfortunately, there are still morons who buy from spammers so we will continue to get spam for a long time to come.

If you think you have it bad, my server provider complained the other day because I was getting over 23,000 emails a day. Only 12 to 15 were legitimate. I do a lot of filtering and only 5 or 6 a day get past my filters.

Bill Tolle

Moon · Jan 23, 2005

Thanks Bob! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

frank_f15 · Jan 23, 2005

( Someone reported their solution to water condensing in their loader valve was adding anti-freeze to their hydraulic fluid!
)
PLEASE tell me you are joking /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Henro · Jan 23, 2005

Frank, no I am serious...

And the psoter sounded serious too. I will add a link to that thread if I come across it again... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif