Sometimes They're Stupid

etali · 03-02-2007

I get a lot of spoofed emails - some of them make sense, like the eBay, Paypal, Lloyds TSB banking ones.

But why is my .co.uk email address getting spam for the American Fifth Third Bank? Why is my brazilian email address I got from work getting spam for the Royal Bank of Scotland?

Sometimes I admire the work phishers go to, but shouldn't they at least do some checking on the spam email lists they get? :-p

swapnil90 · 03-02-2007

These people dont look at .com or .co.uk .... My sister living in India has an ID ending with .co.uk so the phishers never take a chance and just email to everyone in their database

mercury2k5 · 03-13-2007

Yes swapnil is right, phishers dont give a damn on the .com or .co.in
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inworx · 03-15-2007

These have lists of 1000000s of emails. They enter the text and send mails through mail bombers. Why would they check if an email address is of .co.uk or whatsoever? They just need the owners to be scammed, thats all they need from us!

david · 03-20-2007

I get so many junk email from unkown people.Is there any way of stoppin it?

Shady · 03-20-2007

what these phishers count on is that there are many people on the net who are not as savvy as you are and will ignore (or jus be ignorant to) the difference in the ".____"

chandni_aqua · 03-23-2007

i completely agree. am having a lot of problems with email spamming. and the worst part is i never even subscribe for anything on the net.

njoker555 · 03-23-2007

just ignore spam, once one spammer has your email, just assume many more has it too lol, block their email addresses via your mail provider

threegee · 03-27-2007

spam is unfortunately a way of the world now so we just need to get over it and push it aside like throwing away all the junk mail you get in your snail mailbox. report it when you get a chance.

eleven · 03-28-2007

Hehe, it's not really stupidity. I think it's an automated program that sends emails and not really a certain person.

03-02-2007	#1 (permalink)
etali Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 60 Rep Power: 2	Sometimes They're Stupid I get a lot of spoofed emails - some of them make sense, like the eBay, Paypal, Lloyds TSB banking ones. But why is my .co.uk email address getting spam for the American Fifth Third Bank? Why is my brazilian email address I got from work getting spam for the Royal Bank of Scotland? Sometimes I admire the work phishers go to, but shouldn't they at least do some checking on the spam email lists they get? :-p

03-13-2007	#3 (permalink)
mercury2k5 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	hi Yes swapnil is right, phishers dont give a damn on the .com or .co.in ..

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njoker555 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 284 Rep Power: 2	just ignore spam, once one spammer has your email, just assume many more has it too lol, block their email addresses via your mail provider __________________ Gamers Forum << PR3 Forum WebZ Junk Zone << PR3 Blog ZenPix Web Blog << Another PR3 Blog DUJT Webmaster Forum

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03-02-2007	#2 (permalink)
swapnil90 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 255 Rep Power: 2	These people dont look at .com or .co.uk .... My sister living in India has an ID ending with .co.uk so the phishers never take a chance and just email to everyone in their database

03-15-2007	#4 (permalink)
inworx Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 160 Rep Power: 2	These have lists of 1000000s of emails. They enter the text and send mails through mail bombers. Why would they check if an email address is of .co.uk or whatsoever? They just need the owners to be scammed, thats all they need from us!

03-20-2007	#5 (permalink)
david Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 33 Rep Power: 0	I get so many junk email from unkown people.Is there any way of stoppin it?

03-20-2007	#6 (permalink)
Shady Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	what these phishers count on is that there are many people on the net who are not as savvy as you are and will ignore (or jus be ignorant to) the difference in the ".____"

03-23-2007	#7 (permalink)
chandni_aqua Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 121 Rep Power: 2	i completely agree. am having a lot of problems with email spamming. and the worst part is i never even subscribe for anything on the net.

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threegee Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	spam is unfortunately a way of the world now so we just need to get over it and push it aside like throwing away all the junk mail you get in your snail mailbox. report it when you get a chance.

03-28-2007	#10 (permalink)
eleven Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	Hehe, it's not really stupidity. I think it's an automated program that sends emails and not really a certain person.

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