What is the most creative method you have seen?
They seem to be targetting Y!A at the moment (ok I am quite new on here so may have been an ongoing thing). Other quite creative ones are adverts embedded in song downloads from Limewire. And does anybody else get that 'replica rolex', 'monday market report' and 'herbal viagra' rubbish??!
What makes me laugh tho, is does anybody every buy from these scams? I mean, hey, a stranger passes you on the street and says 'Hey, give me a tenner for these pills' do people buy them? Ok, possibly at 3am in brixton, yeah, but you get my point!
Apparently they put out such a high volume of messages that it only takes a very low percentage of replies for the operation to become profitable.
What a mad way to make money! Any comments?
2006-12-18 12:12:50 · 2 answers · asked by Cale 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Several sources of spam, Addresses generated by a random generator must hit on some real addresses; Lists of live addresses traded for cash, and worms that invade your computer and search out all your contacts. The current trend is to put the spam message in a graphic, which makes it harder for spam filters to pick it up. Phishing emails usually use this. Note That's why Yahoo mail has a block images option.
2006-12-18 20:10:01 · answer #1 · answered by The original Peter G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, those spam emails are weird.
I'm not quite at the point in my life that I would consider buying prescription medicine off of somebody who cant even spell 'Viagra' properly!
2006-12-18 20:18:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋