The past 2 days I have been receiving emails from some "secrectary of state of soem country and then one from a business man wanting some money and he
promises to make me millions once he can get the money from overseas bullshit.
I know better than to even think of responding but how serious is this shit? I mean does this mean that some fucking criminal now has access to my
email address and now it will be forever bombarded? What happens if I open the email? Does that do anything? I normally do not open anything I am
unaware of but I have a resume out and the email appeared to be legit, but then I opened it and started reading. Quickly deleting it but does just
opening it do anything?
Does this mean its time to make a new personal email address?joemaconmovies - 11-14-2008 at 10:40 AM
go with a gmail account.clevohardcore - 11-14-2008 at 10:44 AM
What is gmail? I heard of it, but is it from yahoo? or hotmail? Or something completely different?joemaconmovies - 11-14-2008 at 10:47 AM
googlejoemaconmovies - 11-14-2008 at 10:48 AM
and you need an invitation e-mailed to you to joinBDx13 - 11-14-2008 at 11:43 AM
doesn't matter where you have an email account - whether it's through your ISP, yahoo, google's gmail (which no longer requires an invite) or anywhere
else - spammers will get email to your inbox.
one of the many ways they generate email addresses to send to is called a dictionary attack. since lists of all registered domain names are easily
accessible, they simply send spam to every known word @ those domain names. so...
b@domainname.com
bo@domainname.com
bob@domainname.com
bob1@domainname.com
bob2@domainname.com
etc, etc, etc.
whatever doesn't bounce back gets added to a list of valid addresses, sold, and used again.
these days, one ofthe best ways to avoid getting this crap in your inbox is to have a creative (albeit sometimes awkward) email address. a colleague
uses something like temp.mike.13@yahoo.com. real words, yes, but all the periods make it an awkward combination, not likely to be picked up in a
dictionary attack.joemaconmovies - 11-14-2008 at 12:00 PM
i get spam through all my accounts but my gmail accountBDx13 - 11-14-2008 at 12:12 PM
i have accounts with yahoo and gmail, and in my experience, they both do a tremendous job of filtering spam into the junk box. i do still get some in
the inboxes, but nowhere near as much as i do using desktop email software, like outlook or entourage.CR83 - 11-14-2008 at 12:26 PM
I have a gmail too and man I get nothing on that one. it is nice as shit. My corp e-mail gets nailed by spam.moron - 11-14-2008 at 01:43 PM
I love reading computer threads by Clevo.
Someone a few years ago started a thread about scam emails like what youre talking about, and posted this a link to a this website that I ended up
spending an entire day exploring.
Check it out, clevo. It might answer a question or two, and make you laugh.
