Ecard / postcard spam - actually it does have a useful purpose
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I'm still getting a boatload of this ecard / postcard spam and I've trained my spam filter to deal with it, however a friend emailed me to say that they sent an ecard and did I get it. I have always found those things very annoying and now have a legit reason to say I didn't get it and don't send anymore of them. I'm wondering now if those ecard companies who are legit know how badly they are going to get hammered by this spam as people increasingly filter out anything ecard related. Now if we can just get the same effect for all those tiresome "microsoft will send you money for forwarding this email" and all the other hoaxes that have been around since the last century that newbies still fall for and insist on mailing to everyone.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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I'm still getting a boatload of this ecard / postcard spam and I've trained my spam filter to deal with it, however a friend emailed me to say that they sent an ecard and did I get it. I have always found those things very annoying and now have a legit reason to say I didn't get it and don't send anymore of them. I'm wondering now if those ecard companies who are legit know how badly they are going to get hammered by this spam as people increasingly filter out anything ecard related. Now if we can just get the same effect for all those tiresome "microsoft will send you money for forwarding this email" and all the other hoaxes that have been around since the last century that newbies still fall for and insist on mailing to everyone.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
I'm getting PDF spam which is really annoying. Gets past GMail filters easily enough. Can't just block it either as clients send me PDF often enough.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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I'm getting PDF spam which is really annoying. Gets past GMail filters easily enough. Can't just block it either as clients send me PDF often enough.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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I'm getting PDF spam which is really annoying. Gets past GMail filters easily enough. Can't just block it either as clients send me PDF often enough.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
at least right now... eCard == link to website infected with virus PDF spam == "stock tip" next step will probably be eCard PDF document with link to virus infected website X| Steve
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I'm still getting a boatload of this ecard / postcard spam and I've trained my spam filter to deal with it, however a friend emailed me to say that they sent an ecard and did I get it. I have always found those things very annoying and now have a legit reason to say I didn't get it and don't send anymore of them. I'm wondering now if those ecard companies who are legit know how badly they are going to get hammered by this spam as people increasingly filter out anything ecard related. Now if we can just get the same effect for all those tiresome "microsoft will send you money for forwarding this email" and all the other hoaxes that have been around since the last century that newbies still fall for and insist on mailing to everyone.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
John Cardinal wrote:
I'm wondering now if those ecard companies who are legit know how badly they are going to get hammered by this spam as people increasingly filter out anything ecard related.
I'm sure it's not a problem. This[^] is apparently the recommendation from the Greeting Card Association:
_If you are unsure if an e-card notice is genuine, we strongly recommend that you go directly to the publisher’s website to safely retrieve your e-card. To do this:
- Manually type the name of the card publisher’s website URL into your browser window.
- Locate the “e-card pick up” area on the publisher’s website.
- Take the card number or retrieval code information contained in the E-mail and enter it into the appropriate box or boxes on the publisher’s e-card pick-up area.
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:doh:
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I'm still getting a boatload of this ecard / postcard spam and I've trained my spam filter to deal with it, however a friend emailed me to say that they sent an ecard and did I get it. I have always found those things very annoying and now have a legit reason to say I didn't get it and don't send anymore of them. I'm wondering now if those ecard companies who are legit know how badly they are going to get hammered by this spam as people increasingly filter out anything ecard related. Now if we can just get the same effect for all those tiresome "microsoft will send you money for forwarding this email" and all the other hoaxes that have been around since the last century that newbies still fall for and insist on mailing to everyone.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
I keep getting loads of these, and the PDF ones to. When are they going to release email 2.0 to sort all of this nonsense spam?
"It was the day before today.... I remember it like it was yesterday." -Moleman
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John Cardinal wrote:
I'm wondering now if those ecard companies who are legit know how badly they are going to get hammered by this spam as people increasingly filter out anything ecard related.
I'm sure it's not a problem. This[^] is apparently the recommendation from the Greeting Card Association:
_If you are unsure if an e-card notice is genuine, we strongly recommend that you go directly to the publisher’s website to safely retrieve your e-card. To do this:
- Manually type the name of the card publisher’s website URL into your browser window.
- Locate the “e-card pick up” area on the publisher’s website.
- Take the card number or retrieval code information contained in the E-mail and enter it into the appropriate box or boxes on the publisher’s e-card pick-up area.
_
:doh:
I enjoy occasionally wandering around randomly, and often find that when I do so, I get to where I wanted to be [^]. Awasu 2.3 [^]: A free RSS/Atom feed reader with support for Code Project. 50% discount on the paid editions for CP members!
So in other words yes it's a huge problem for them. 99% of their users are going to be out of luck with even the first step. Interesting. If I had stock in those companies I'd start selling it about now.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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I keep getting loads of these, and the PDF ones to. When are they going to release email 2.0 to sort all of this nonsense spam?
"It was the day before today.... I remember it like it was yesterday." -Moleman
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I'm still getting a boatload of this ecard / postcard spam and I've trained my spam filter to deal with it, however a friend emailed me to say that they sent an ecard and did I get it. I have always found those things very annoying and now have a legit reason to say I didn't get it and don't send anymore of them. I'm wondering now if those ecard companies who are legit know how badly they are going to get hammered by this spam as people increasingly filter out anything ecard related. Now if we can just get the same effect for all those tiresome "microsoft will send you money for forwarding this email" and all the other hoaxes that have been around since the last century that newbies still fall for and insist on mailing to everyone.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
I was thinking about this just today when I had to delete a bunch of them. It could be another industry crippled by spammers. I know they have destroyed the effectiveness of email since often legit email is blocked or hidden in tons of spam.. Oh, those times when people keep emailing you to the point of hate mail because you do not respond without knowing their spam blocker is blocking your replies :mad:
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I was thinking about this just today when I had to delete a bunch of them. It could be another industry crippled by spammers. I know they have destroyed the effectiveness of email since often legit email is blocked or hidden in tons of spam.. Oh, those times when people keep emailing you to the point of hate mail because you do not respond without knowing their spam blocker is blocking your replies :mad:
Rocky <>< Latest Code Blog Post: www.TheWPFDirectory.com site launched! Latest Tech Blog Post: You got to see this - Seadragon and Photosynth!
Rocky Moore wrote:
Oh, those times when people keep emailing you to the point of hate mail because you do not respond without knowing their spam blocker is blocking your replies
Yeah we ran into that problem most heavily about 2 years ago and decided to start a support forum instead and we heavily encourage people to use it and we state that if they don't get a reply within 15 minutes during business hours their spam blocker probably blocked our direct email reply. The forum is totally the way to go though as a lot of people just search it instead of emailing now.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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I'm still getting a boatload of this ecard / postcard spam and I've trained my spam filter to deal with it, however a friend emailed me to say that they sent an ecard and did I get it. I have always found those things very annoying and now have a legit reason to say I didn't get it and don't send anymore of them. I'm wondering now if those ecard companies who are legit know how badly they are going to get hammered by this spam as people increasingly filter out anything ecard related. Now if we can just get the same effect for all those tiresome "microsoft will send you money for forwarding this email" and all the other hoaxes that have been around since the last century that newbies still fall for and insist on mailing to everyone.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
John Cardinal wrote:
microsoft will send you money for forwarding this email
If it is really so, then the following algorithm is acceptable.
try { LoginToPayPal(); OrderCheckToMyBankAccount(); Thread.Sleep(); //till the account gets credited. NowOpenMessageBoxWithAV_Firewall_SpamFilterOpened(); //:-D } catch (BadNetiquetteException exBadNetiquetteException) { Debug.WriteLine(exBadNetiquetteException.ToString()); }Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips
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I'm getting PDF spam which is really annoying. Gets past GMail filters easily enough. Can't just block it either as clients send me PDF often enough.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
Xacti Inbox (http://www.inbox.com/[^]) SpamFilter is really powerful and aggressive.:)
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