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A sporting proposition: get the scammers! - 7/1/2006 8:07:13 PM

ADomDoc

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The Scammers & Email Address Collectors (posing as nymphs who are all young, love pain & nasty, kinky sex, & are seeking slavery, etc) only profit if they can target a bunch of us ... esp the gullible ones.

I saw some news coverage of a few people who responded to the scams out of Nigeria ... you know ... the princess who's inheritance is tied up by government ... and if you'd only help out, she'd give you 5 million dollars, etc. These guys kept writing back to the scammers & taking up their time & filling their email boxes to the point of the scammers demanding that these guys quit writing.

Well ... do you think it would help get rid of some of the scammers here, if a lot of us started writing to 'em ... then putting a block on their responses? And even writing 'em over & over ... with the blocks on? We could probably jam up their emails & make this an inhospitable site to look for suckers. They can't put blocks on incoming mail or they'll miss out on real prospects.

Every day, I see at least 2 new ads from Accra, Ghana that are obviously bogus. And lots of others with ... "just write to my xxxxx at yahoo com address for more details" (so they can get your email address outside of Collarme.

I figure it wouldn't be hard for a few hundred of us to flood them out of Collarme. It might even be fun to let them write back a few times & keep them hoping. The more they have to write us & send answers, the harder it will be on them. If we get their outside email addresses, then the larger our notes to them, the faster their email boxes fill up, overload, and their ISPs start demanding they pay more for all the traffic on their sites. We don't even have to send anything relevant ... a copy of the Constitution ... a copy of Moby Dick :-)

Just a thought ... it's always nice to stick it to the spammers & scammers for a change.

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RE: A sporting proposition: get the scammers! - 7/1/2006 8:29:13 PM

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I don't really believe in helping the stupid to continue being stupid.
If someone is dumb enough to still fall for this stuff. Then let them. There is no shortage of warnings and information.
We already, as a society, try to help these people.
Let Darwin help them and us.
Maybe the people fleecing them, will do something more useful with the cash.

Harsh, but I am tired of suffering fools.

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RE: A sporting proposition: get the scammers! - 7/1/2006 8:42:55 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: ADomDoc
... Every day, I see at least 2 new ads from Accra, Ghana that are obviously bogus. And lots of others with ... "just write to my xxxxx at yahoo com address for more details" (so they can get your email address outside of Collarme.
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Just a thought ... it's always nice to stick it to the spammers & scammers for a change.

You can anonymously help to get them poor nigerian billionaires plenty of attention... just paste their own xxxxx at yahoo com address into all the opt-in mailing lists you can find... sign them up for all kinds of shit... think outside the box, use their own achille's heel against them from an anonymous laughing vantage point... or not, it's just a thought.

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RE: A sporting proposition: get the scammers! - 7/1/2006 8:44:48 PM

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Suffering fools is a task that, I'm not especially adept at anymore, but, I love, Doc's idea. I think that He has sparked a minor fartfa in My mind.
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ORIGINAL: Kedikat

I don't really believe in helping the stupid to continue being stupid.
If someone is dumb enough to still fall for this stuff. Then let them. There is no shortage of warnings and information.
We already, as a society, try to help these people.
Let Darwin help them and us.
Maybe the people fleecing them, will do something more useful with the cash.

Harsh, but I am tired of suffering fools.

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RE: A sporting proposition: get the scammers! - 7/2/2006 10:16:01 AM

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I've actually done this with a spammer that came across My personal MySpace page.... I told them I was extremely well off... and since they had no money *the inheritence was tied up* and she was in the process of being tossed out of her hotel room for lack of payment... the manager was holding her passport until she could come up with the cash to pay for her elongated stay there... I droned on for literally DAYS spamming the hell out of that email box... wanting the name and phone number of the hotel... told them the next time I had an associate in Nigeria, I would just buy the damn hotel and she could stay there as long as needed... free of charge, food and such included... she wouldn't need any actual "money" as she'd be a kept woman, etc etc... until her inheritance came through and she could make her way to the States to Me....

I've not heard from her in months...*sniffles*

T.R.
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RE: A sporting proposition: get the scammers! - 7/2/2006 11:23:10 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: TolerableCruelty

I've actually done this with a spammer that came across My personal MySpace page.... I told them I was extremely well off... and since they had no money *the inheritence was tied up* and she was in the process of being tossed out of her hotel room for lack of payment... the manager was holding her passport until she could come up with the cash to pay for her elongated stay there... I droned on for literally DAYS spamming the hell out of that email box... wanting the name and phone number of the hotel... told them the next time I had an associate in Nigeria, I would just buy the damn hotel and she could stay there as long as needed... free of charge, food and such included... she wouldn't need any actual "money" as she'd be a kept woman, etc etc... until her inheritance came through and she could make her way to the States to Me....

I've not heard from her in months...*sniffles*

T.R.
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ROFLMAO!!!! OMG !! you are too much-

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RE: A sporting proposition: get the scammers! - 7/2/2006 12:53:55 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: TolerableCruelty

until her inheritance came through and she could make her way to the States to Me....

I've not heard from her in months...*sniffles*

T.R.
~cyber philanthropist extraordinaire~

awwwwwwwwww....hands T.R. a soft blue hankie...

ROTF in gales of giggles...glad ya got em <g>

Thanks..lol

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RE: A sporting proposition: get the scammers! - 7/2/2006 2:20:35 PM

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Spammers are the same lot as telemarketers, but they are paid by the hour to do it.

"This is Time Life Music, and we have a fantastic offer for you"

"OK"

"Bla bla bla this and that"

"Can you get me Hank williams Sr's. Thirty Pieces Of silver ?"

"I'll have to talk to my supervisor"

long pause.

"I can get you that if you buy the whole Alan Jackson collection"

This went on and on, I tied them up of a good 40 minutes going back and forth. Then....

"Oh shit, my dog got loose, hang on"

I handed the phone to a friend and whispered "Say 'I'll call him now' and then push the button". This hung up on Time Life Music of course.

A buddy of mine got one of those Nigerian letters, bearing the surname of his maternal Grandmother. How they got that who knows. I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to scam the scammers, but I never came up with a viable plan. Would've been nice though.

I am now to the point that I will avoid buying anything advertised like the plague. If I see it on TV I know I don't want it. I talked to a rep at a local TV station about some advertising, and he told me that TV advertising isn't worth it unless you can mark up the product 300-400 %.

Spamming is indeed alot cheaper. In fact, including Norton's and McAffe's on new PCs turns me off. It is always a trial version that nags you on every fucking bootup to upgrade and buy. I will have neither as a result.

There is one state, Oregon maybe ? that has criminal penalties for spamming. Don't quite know how enforcement works, but they got Larry Flynt somehow. I guess what we need to do is lobby more than the spammers. By more I mean more $$$.

All mass market ads steer me away from the product.

Another friendly group are the ones who want you to refinance your home to pay off credit card debt. People, credit cards are unsecured, that means if you burnem, you keep all the stuff.

An even worse scam is where you win a lawsuit and instead of giving you the money they give you an annuity or whatever. Then you can go to JG Wentworth to get a lump sum. People are dumber than dirt. Lemme tellya, if I sue you and win I want all my money NOW. These people who lose never really pay the money, just the interest on it, then the recipient pays interest to get the lump sum later. Duh. Ever wonder how people get rich ?

All in all, if you look at advertising overall you would get the impression that we are all incontinent, impotent, can't go outside because of allergies and apparently our road vehicles costing tens of thousands of dollars are useless after five days. But we will give you $6,000 for your car that belongs in a scrap heap.

If I were an alien tapping into our TV and radio, and maybe some of the spammers I would not come here. No wonder no little green Men have popped out of a spaceship and said "Take me to your misleader".

T

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RE: A sporting proposition: get the scammers! - 7/2/2006 3:29:26 PM

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When I get those (about 30 per week!) in Yahoo mail I always mark them with the "SPAM" button and they're erased and Yahoo assigns all their future e-mailings to people's junk folders!
Fuck 'Em!

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RE: A sporting proposition: get the scammers! - 7/4/2006 9:59:03 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: NastyDaddy
You can anonymously help to get them poor nigerian billionaires plenty of attention... just paste their own xxxxx at yahoo com address into all the opt-in mailing lists you can find... sign them up for all kinds of shit... think outside the box, use their own achille's heel against them from an anonymous laughing vantage point... or not, it's just a thought.

You are an evil man ... I like that about you :-) Your plan will get them spammed from all over the place ... harder for them to block. A taste of their own medicine.
I think that gorgeous 6'4" american indian from Accra Ghana would be a good place to start :-)

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