Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Relentless spam

Spam emails and "robots" or "bots" will always be around. These entities that are there purely to advertise their products/services are relentless. I have listed their email addresses in my spam block list and still new ones appear. Once they get a hold of your email, they will keep on sending you spam email from different email addresses and some are even bogus. I have gotten spam emails from what appears to be my own email address! They usually will email me in facebook, myspace, friendster, gay.com, gaydar and Dlist from what appears to be a person interested in getting to know me. It is so obvious that it is a spam cause it is usually from some hot looking girl or some guy wanting LTR from Russia. Then they will coax me to email them back at their private email address. They just want to get a hold of my active email address so they can inundate my account with spam emails for porn sites and online viagra. Another trick they have are these "bots" that operate in the chat rooms of gay.com. They will private message me and their profile will be empty. Usually they would asked me to check them out in their private web cam that I can supposedly sign up for free. Duh! I was not born yesterday. And lately, they will respond to my craigslist advertisement for dating. The response will be a one liner asking for pics which gives them away as "bots" or spam cause I already posted face pics in the ad. Even if I put in the ad to reply only with a face pic, these "bots" will respond to my ad saying that they have their face pic in a social networking site that requires me to sign up to view their pics. Obviously a response to my ad that clearly did not read and heed what I stipulated in the ad will be a spam or "bots". Gone are the days of junk postal mails and telemarketers and now electronic junk mail/spam replaced them. So annoying but I guess they are only doing what they need to do to survive.

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