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Great British currency!

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 7:19 am
by MarleysGh0st
I'm so fortunate, today! :lol:
The Gifted Family of Mr Chris and Mrs Colin [redacted] announces their donation of the sum 800,000.00 Great British currency to you. Send
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Actually, I'm kind of annoyed that I got this at my relatively new GMail address. I've been cautious about where I use it, so I didn't think the spammers would learn about it so quickly.

Re: Great British currency!

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 7:26 am
by littlebeast13
MarleysGh0st wrote:I'm so fortunate, today! :lol:
The Gifted Family of Mr Chris and Mrs Colin [redacted] announces their donation of the sum 800,000.00 Great British currency to you. Send
Name---
Occupation-----
Address---
Mobile -----
Age-----


Actually, I'm kind of annoyed that I got this at my relatively new GMail address. I've been cautious about where I use it, so I didn't think the spammers would learn about it so quickly.

Anyone with that much Great British currency to throw around can pretty much buy whatever information they want. Look for a certified letter next....

lb13

Re: Great British currency!

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 10:13 am
by Bob Juch
MarleysGh0st wrote:I'm so fortunate, today! :lol:
The Gifted Family of Mr Chris and Mrs Colin [redacted] announces their donation of the sum 800,000.00 Great British currency to you. Send
Name---
Occupation-----
Address---
Mobile -----
Age-----


Actually, I'm kind of annoyed that I got this at my relatively new GMail address. I've been cautious about where I use it, so I didn't think the spammers would learn about it so quickly.
Spammers use a brute force attack now. They send to "aaa", then "aab", then "aac", and so on. Putting symbols in your address can protect you from that but Gmail has a pretty good spam filter and catches most spammy emails. When you get one that slips through mark it as spam so their system will learn what's spam.

Re: Great British currency!

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 11:12 am
by SpacemanSpiff
littlebeast13 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:I'm so fortunate, today! :lol:
The Gifted Family of Mr Chris and Mrs Colin [redacted] announces their donation of the sum 800,000.00 Great British currency to you. Send
Name---
Occupation-----
Address---
Mobile -----
Age-----


Actually, I'm kind of annoyed that I got this at my relatively new GMail address. I've been cautious about where I use it, so I didn't think the spammers would learn about it so quickly.

Anyone with that much Great British currency to throw around can pretty much buy whatever information they want. Look for a certified letter next....

lb13
Hey! I resemble that remark!