Successful Spammers?

[Makeo]

What makes you read an email? Obviously any with the subject line containing the words, penis, larger, breasts, blonde milfs, printer cartridge, Nigeria, Apolyton, Crazy Animal Sex, Re: Your were so good last night, Click to Install virus, Alexanders Horse, daishdfdidmakeodafd, bukakke gets deleted.

However I always seem to get sucked in if the subject line is (none).

You? Or you never get sucked in? Or you never get spam emails?

[red_jon]

None as the subject line works, as do any with a friend's name.

The vast majority I delete though.

[Spiffor]

I sometimes open for the sheer curiosity to know what the spammers have now found...
For some time, I opened to go to the "unsubscribe" link. Since the spam I got trebled in a matter of days, I quickly stopped

[FrustratedPoet]

(none) works surprisingly well, especially if it's from "John" or "Sarah" or some other common name. There's always a chance that one of your friends has got a new email address or something ... of course they're always spam, but I open them anyway. No harm done though since I'd never open an attachment on one of those.

Spiff: Replying to any form of spam mail is the worst thing you can do. It lets them know they've found an active email address. But I guess you realise that now.

[SlowwHand]

If I don't recognize it, it's trash.

[Kuciwalker]

I know exactly who I should be getting email from, so I delete anything that doesn't fit.

[geeslaka]

If I do get spam, it's too buried in the stuff from the freeciv-dev mailing list for me to notice.

[CerberusIV]

I upgraded to AOL 8.0 a couple of weeks ago. I get occasional spam emails but now happily click the "report as spam" button and they disappear.

I know - I must be the only person on Poly who is actually quite happy with AOL but there you go.

What is really nice about 8.0 is the pop-up blocker. There seems to be more pop-ups on Poly recently and a typical visit now racks up 5 or 6 pop-ups but not with AOL, all I see is a counter going up and don't have to close the unwanted windows.

[geeslaka]

1045 hours = 43 days, 13 hours.
CD frequency = 60 days.
Correct me if I misremember.

[Proteus_MST]

I use SpamPal to transfer all supposed Spam into a folder called "Suspected Spam".
But normally I look even into those Mails which are suspected Spam, but always with my Internet-Connection turned off, just for safety

[DinoDoc]

I thought this was going to be about Ming, rah, or Mao.

[Shi Huangdi]

Spammers are never sucsessful with me. I don't get any spam on my main account(except from the occasional wanted student organization/stupid thing at pitt, but then those are obvious and easy to delete), because I never post it on the internet or use it to sign up for anything on an untrusted website. If I want to sign up for something I have a spare Hotmail account I use to sign up for stuff on the internet. Now that One gets about 15 or so SPAM mails a day, but then whenever I want something on that account I am always look for a specific thing.

[Makeo]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
Spammers are never sucsessful with me. I don't get any spam on my main account(except from the occasional wanted student organization/stupid thing at pitt, but then those are obvious and easy to delete), because I never post it on the internet or use it to sign up for anything on an untrusted website. If I want to sign up for something I have a spare Hotmail account I use to sign up for stuff on the internet. Now that One gets about 15 or so SPAM mails a day, but then whenever I want something on that account I am always look for a specific thing.

This is what I do now also.

[Spiffor]

I also have a trash account I use to register everywhere I go (btw, it's the account I use for 'Poly). I get spam on this one. Sadly, some spam managed to slip to my main email adress, but so far, I get very little on it.
I check my spam account everyday or almost, since it's the addy most "unknown people from the internet" have from me... So it happens that I get a serious message.

[SlowwHand]

As far as AOL goes, there is no such thing as an "upgrade" .
AOL isn't even the internet.