I have decided...

EdFred

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...that I'm going to throw gasoline on the flames of Nigerian spam.

I get numerous spam mails saying that I am beneficiary of some random dead person that I've never met. So, I've decided that my will is going to be set up to actually do just that. Randomly select an email address, and inform them they are the beneficiary of a certain % of the estate in USD, and they have to contact my lawyer to get the money. If they don't respond within a week, randomly select another address and move on. Eventually someone will do it and receive the money. Of course then this person will probably end up telling their story and end up on some talk show somewhere, and then everyone will start to reply to these emails that the spammers are sending out in hopes that one is actually legit.

Yeah, I'm cruel.

:D
 
Should we request Ed change his name to Mr. Bukakee?

http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/

Here is his new avatar:
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I see a trip to Nigeria in Ed's future.

.....And perhaps a Nigerian bride as well, hopefully female.....












:D
 
Henning said:
All this for $10???
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They might get a plane too. Ed might have a real nice plane by this time. Or at least a better looking one:D
 
EdFred said:
...that I'm going to throw gasoline on the flames of Nigerian spam.

I get numerous spam mails saying that I am beneficiary of some random dead person that I've never met. So, I've decided that my will is going to be set up to actually do just that. Randomly select an email address, and inform them they are the beneficiary of a certain % of the estate in USD, and they have to contact my lawyer to get the money. If they don't respond within a week, randomly select another address and move on. Eventually someone will do it and receive the money. Of course then this person will probably end up telling their story and end up on some talk show somewhere, and then everyone will start to reply to these emails that the spammers are sending out in hopes that one is actually legit.

Yeah, I'm cruel.

:D
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Um, I'm not sure if this counts as a "random act of kindness" if in the end it causes thousands of people to follow fake links inside emails.
 
kimberlyanne546 said:
Um, I'm not sure if this counts as a "random act of kindness" if in the end it causes thousands of people to follow fake links inside emails.
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Hey, he's the one you opted to fly with. You expect random acts of kindness from ED? :no: :D:D:D
 
gprellwitz said:
Hey, he's the one you opted to fly with. You expect random acts of kindness from ED? :no: :D:D:D
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Darn, I should have gone with you instead.

What have I gotten myself into? As mentioned, my plane tickets are non-refundable. Yikes.


Kimberly
 
kimberlyanne546 said:
Darn, I should have gone with you instead.

What have I gotten myself into? As mentioned, my plane tickets are non-refundable. Yikes.


Kimberly
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Don't worry,. You'll be fine. Besides, you know how to fly and carry mace, right? :yesnod:
 
gprellwitz said:
Don't worry,. You'll be fine. Besides, you know how to fly and carry mace, right? :yesnod:
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We went over this already in the other thread! TSA won't let me have mace, and besides, I don't know how to land a complex airplane from the right seat so it would be best if I don't blind the pilot.
 
kimberlyanne546 said:
We went over this already in the other thread! TSA won't let me have mace, and besides, I don't know how to land a complex airplane from the right seat so it would be best if I don't blind the pilot.
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Just remember that leaving the aircraft in re-usable condition is desirable but not required when landing. Particularly if it's not your aircraft. In other words, use the mace if required. (You can put the mace in a checked bag...or ups it to yourself)

There, aren't we just a helpful bunch now?
 
Wouldn't it just be easier to switch email providers?

Can't remember the last time I saw a piece of random spam in my inbox. More than two years.
 
kimberlyanne546 said:
We went over this already in the other thread! TSA won't let me have mace, and besides, I don't know how to land a complex airplane from the right seat so it would be best if I don't blind the pilot.
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It's pretty simple. The only thing you have to make sure is that the gear is down prior to attempting landing.

Now, it is a Comanche, so landing it smoothly is another story. The wing design is such that it goes from "fly" to "not fly" in about 0.00001 kt. ;)
 
EdFred said:
company email
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In-house (inept mail server admin?) or outsourced (same problem?).

Google for Domains/Business works pretty well, I hear.

For serious e-mail server Geekery, I recommend fastmail.fm services, or a Barracuda device for small to medium business who feel they must run their own.

Large businesses who can't handle spam properly... something's very wrong. Budget or people or leadership, or all of the above.
 
denverpilot said:
In-house (inept mail server admin?) or outsourced (same problem?).

Google for Domains/Business works pretty well, I hear.

For serious e-mail server Geekery, I recommend fastmail.fm services, or a Barracuda device for small to medium business who feel they must run their own.

Large businesses who can't handle spam properly... something's very wrong. Budget or people or leadership, or all of the above.
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We have an in house server (only 5 client computers), and the spams aren't that plentiful. A handful a day, and they all end up caught by the junk mail filter. I can't have them automatically trashed because I have a number of legit emails that also end up being flagged as spam.
 
Ahh. Considering the hundreds of spam a day that must be hitting the upstream ISP's server then, you're doing great.

An unfiltered account yields about 1000 spam a week after it's been in service for a few years if the person actively posts on the Net. About 200 if they don't.

I did an informal study once, using a different mail account on the same domain for everything I signed up for, for about a year. One company, one address.

Only the largest companies honored their so-called "privacy" statements and didn't sell the e-mail address. They were also the biggest offenders at sending you "customer communications" weekly. Most other places either blatantly sold the address or their security was so weak, someone was helping themselves to usernames and e-mail accounts.

Granted it was a quote from a guy who worked for a spam filtering company, but 86% of all messages to any average user account were spam or unwanted content in 2006.

I'd say your ISP is doing a great job in the cesspool of port 25 traffic if you're only seeing a handful. Guaranteed they're throwing out hundreds more.

Do they have a way to submit spam back into their filters to train it better on the few that are getting through?

Many have an account set up you can just forward the few that get through back to them so they can run 'em through the heuristics engine to do a little better job over time.

If you truly have no upstream filters and are only getting a handful, consider yourself the luckiest man alive and buy a Lotto ticket. ;)
 
denverpilot said:
If you truly have no upstream filters and are only getting a handful, consider yourself the luckiest man alive and buy a Lotto ticket. ;)
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I don't have anything. One thing I do is I have no live e-mail links on the company website. The email addresses get built via javascript and are not listed at all in the name@domain.com format. It simply says "Contact Ed" or whatever I decided on. Seems to work.

I came in this morning to find only 5:
I've been approved for claiming 980,000 pounds
A scam mail from "The Central Bank of Nigeria" warning me that I've been scammed
Something in Chinese
I won $2.5 MM in an internet lottery and an apple laptop
And another internet lottery win of 750,000 pounds
 
EdFred said:
I don't have anything. One thing I do is I have no live e-mail links on the company website. The email addresses get built via javascript and are not listed at all in the name@domain.com format. It simply says "Contact Ed" or whatever I decided on. Seems to work.

I came in this morning to find only 5:
I've been approved for claiming 980,000 pounds
A scam mail from "The Central Bank of Nigeria" warning me that I've been scammed
Something in Chinese
I won $2.5 MM in an internet lottery and an apple laptop
And another internet lottery win of 750,000 pounds
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I turned my spam filter off on my various free accounts. I want to make friends with my spam and I'm tired of "missing" important emails that go to spam. Here is what I got today:

Learn how pell grants can help pay for school

Get the funds you need in less than one hour from Loan Manager

Luck will knock at your door (free psychic readings)

"Respond!" from Fiona Cheng who says "I have a serious business for you"

Nursing education, get the training you need

Never shave again! Laser skin care

Omaha Steaks (sort of spam, though I've ordered steaks)

Partnership request from Pallifat Ehime

Permanent Hair Restoration

Your Urgent Attention Is Needed

Cialis

and

Diabetes Help!
 
You could always do what I've done since I was a kid just for fun:
Take a mason jar, put some money in it then bury it in the forest in case you ever need it..or someone finds it which is somewhere between impossible and not happening.
I'm actually going to do it again in a few weeks. It's not exactly $10 either. I may dig it up again in a year or so however right now I don't want it in my possession.
 
EdFred said:
...that I'm going to throw gasoline on the flames of Nigerian spam.

I get numerous spam mails saying that I am beneficiary of some random dead person that I've never met. So, I've decided that my will is going to be set up to actually do just that. Randomly select an email address, and inform them they are the beneficiary of a certain % of the estate in USD, and they have to contact my lawyer to get the money. If they don't respond within a week, randomly select another address and move on. Eventually someone will do it and receive the money. Of course then this person will probably end up telling their story and end up on some talk show somewhere, and then everyone will start to reply to these emails that the spammers are sending out in hopes that one is actually legit.

Yeah, I'm cruel. :D
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This reminds me of when George Carlin said that all criminals should be put in one state surrounded by an electric fence that deactivates for five minutes each year. Truly diabolical. I like it.
 
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