September 02, 2004
"Someone is trying to share Opinions and Experiences about you via our website." A very creepy scam preying on everyone's common paranoia that people are talking about me. (More inside)
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i just got one of these emails today, "advising" me that unknown persons were "discussing" me. Here's what Snopes says. First i'd heard of this, so i thought i'd warn my monkeypals.
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I assume that people are talking about me constantly anyway.
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Sounds like a place for the jibbering quackity quack heard in the girl's bathroom at Junior High. Or so I've heard.
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And if one of you guys will help get my wife out of Nigeria, she'll share some of her huge inheritance with you. Some people need a good poke in the eye for running crap like this.
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Yeah, I've been receiving those for a long time. Luckily, my trusty SpamAssassin knows to flag them correctly and I never see them any more. The funny thing is that using the CRM114 discriminator, which is an unbiased Markovian text classifier, these emails consistently end up in the negative hundreds (translation: very spammy). (I've totally outed myself as a geek now. Oh. Well.)
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There is a similar 'someone fancies you' mobile phone (cell phone to our cousins across the sea) scam too. Delete. Delete.
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How the fuck do you people *get* these mails? I haven't received weird spam in .. years. Literally the only mail I get is from my wife and occasionally from someone in the US to whom I owe money. I've only followed the rule of never posting my email address unmunged to the net, & so forth. Possibly it's because even spammers hate me.
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Well, spammers don't really expect to get any business from monkeys anyway. You are somewhat of an exception, Nostril.
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MCT--thank you, thank you. Monkeyfilter: Some people need a good poke in the eye.
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Hey, look who's here! I was wondering where you were just this morning. Don't read anything into this, but I was in the shower. Fear not, I was shampooing at the time.