I did a little statistical research this week on spam.

Not the ghastly foodstuff that surprisingly mades magnificent fritters, at least when cooked by the right person. No, the computer stuff.

Over the last 7 days, I've received even more than the usual bucketload of it. So, I decided to add up the minimum number of inches my penis was guaranteed to grow if I hit the various links.

I decided to treat each e-mail address as a different treatment,unless the wording was completely similar to one already combed. This wasn't easy, but someone had to do it.

The net result would have been an organ enlarged by 185 inches, or 15 foot 5 inches.

Words fail me now,but wouldn't it be nice if the lonely Russian ladies or horny f**k-buddies who also regularly spam me were all offering guaranteed spanking opportunities in similar quantities?

I can't think of any other practical use for 185"!


Steve M

185" sounds something like the Captains chopper on the good ship Venus.
How do the "enlargment" and "pill" spammers find our e mail addys? They must scan every possibly possibility, scary.

Hi all,

Mimi said:

"How do the "enlargment" and "pill" spammers find our e mail addys?"

IMHO in a lot of cases they get them via eBay sellers (or maybe eBay) flogging them addresses in bulk. The only one of my several regularly used email addresses that I get any appreciable amount of personally addressed spam on is the email address I used to use for eBay.

The other main problem is that some ISPs are very careless (or too mean) and don't take any steps to stop bulk spamming. If you look in the headers you'll almost certainly find that a proportion of your spam hasn't even got your email address in it. It is simple sent to a range of customers on a particular ISP by clever technical trickery. ISPs can stop this if they take the trouble, but often they don't.

Apart from that, make sure that if your email address appears on a web site it is well disguised via scripting or some other means. Spammers harvest email addresses via software 'bots' that roam the web looking for plain text addresses on web pages.

And a ps to the above:

Least anyone should be concerned, this forum does disguise email addresses by chopping them up in JavaScript, so except for any use made of them by readers of the forum email addresses (if given) will come to no harm here!

Very informative, I registerd with Ebay a year or so ago when the spam started. Never bought anything from them. Explains similar spamming that other pals get. Fortunately yahoo stick em all in the bulk folder.
My current address gets about 5 a week. An old email adress (pre ebay) which I don't use anymore gets about 30 a day.
Wonder if anyone buys the stuff, still a 0.1% order rate would stil make millions for no effort.

MIMI

I've been trading on there 4 years.

It's only been the last year that these people have been so concerned about my sexual well-being.

Before that,we had mad share-tipsters from the USA and other such nonsense.

Recent months have also seen a sharp decline in the phoney bank-details-need-updating spoofs. No problems, though, when I was inundated with them. I logged on to everyone and gave my password without fail.

Because every single one was for someone I am not banking with now and actually never have done!


Steve M

Hi All,

I don't want to prolong this exchange unduly 'cos I have to spend far too much time on this sort of thing in the day job!

To Steve M I have to say congratulations. I bet those fake usernames and passwords caused some excitement to the spamming scum, only to have their hopes came crashing down when they found they didn't work!

However, a note of caution to anyone tempted to emulate Steve. He must run a pretty well defended system as not only does he open spam he also visits phishing sites with impunity. If your system isn't well defended you might not be so lucky.

Spam should always be deleted without opening it, as although less common than it was, a proportion of spam still contains malware. As for visiting phishing sites, that's a definite no no, as a high proportion of phishing sites will attempt a so called 'drive by download' of malware once you've entered the data they are after. As a result, if your system defences aren't up to scratch your computer could be recruited to relay spam , or, worse still, to distribute illegal content, all without your knowledge!

Stay safe, it's dangerous out there on the web! [Grin]