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CollateralDamage
Master Baiter
Joined: 01 Jun 2007
Posts: 175
Location: Beside the Fire - reading
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Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:54 am |
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I suppose like everybody else I receive a daily avalanche of emails promising cheap medicines, software and various �appliances�. Has anyone replied to these and are there baiting opportunities with them???????
I�d be pretty confident that they would be a case of send us your money and get nothing in return. |
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i dont have time for you u most be a basted from your mother and your father must be a big dog but all i will let u know is that may u go and die like a lizard as i don't want u to skeak with me any more if u reply this message that means your father and mother including all your family is a dog and goat.
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lotta
Baiting Guru
Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 13612
Location: 2 Speckled Cct Springfield Lakes QLD 4300
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Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:05 am |
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Responding to those will get you thousands more spam mails. I don't believe these can be baited as these people are not affiliated with the crap being sold, there job is to do the spamming. It's best to just delete them. |
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Josh
Elite Baiter
Joined: 24 Apr 2007
Posts: 1794
Location: Nu Zilund
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Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:09 am |
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Generally their entire purpsose it to direct you to a website rather than to actually interact with you. Hit delete as fast as you can. |
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johnny5
Master Baiter
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
Posts: 109
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Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:57 am |
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They're sent in their thousands, the number of "couldn't deliver"s they get back must be enormous, so I imagine they're sent from a throwaway address that's forgotten about by humans.
I read once that if you reply to these, they then know your email address is valid and will send more, probably determined by a script their end.
You won't get a bait, you'll just get signed up for a ton more spam.
As for what they're selling, I don't think it's a case of take your money and run, though it might be. I think this stuff really is on offer, but it'll be cheap tablets, CD-R burned software etc. |
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Ginch
Master Baiter
Joined: 02 Jun 2007
Posts: 208
Location: Here...and there!
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Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:29 pm |
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I was forced to nuke a webmail account I'd had for 7 years because of those bastards. They're probably still bouncing 'em off that one.  |
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Stoker Thompson
419Eater is my life
Joined: 11 Apr 2007
Posts: 271
Location: Out There.
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Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:41 am |
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| I read once that if you reply to these, they then know your email address is valid and will send more, probably determined by a script their end. |
Actually just previewing one can load a server side image that validates the email address. |
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johnny5
Master Baiter
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
Posts: 109
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Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:13 pm |
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True, but only if you allow images to load.
I don't use a big email client so I dunno what the defaults are but I believe they're finally disabling images by default. |
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