clevohardcore
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emails asking for money
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?
Each aspect of the soul has it's own part to play, but the ideal is harmonious agreement with reason and control.
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joemaconmovies
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go with a gmail account.
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clevohardcore
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What is gmail? I heard of it, but is it from yahoo? or hotmail? Or something completely different?
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joemaconmovies
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google
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joemaconmovies
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and you need an invitation e-mailed to you to join
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BDx13
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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.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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joemaconmovies
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i get spam through all my accounts but my gmail account
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BDx13
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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.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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CR83
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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.
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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.
http://www.419eater.com/
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clevohardcore
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| Quote: | Originally posted by joemaconmovies
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^^^^^^^^ Aaaaaa. Hense the letter g. Pretty tricky.
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