Paypal actually have an address that you can forward those dodgy males to,
so that they can work to have such things shut down.
it wouldn't surprise me if amazon and other major online businesses do too.
Beware the grue!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] The dragon awakes.
Hi,
Sure. Spam is quite simply automated advertisements that are sent to
e-mail randomly using a spambot or similar method of spreading the
adds anonymously to someones e-mail etc. They usually contain adds to
enlarge certain body parts, advertise the illegal sale of prescription
drugs, pornography, and of course fishing e-mails that try to get you
to enter your credit card, bank account number, etc in order to steel
your identity.
Of course, it isn't just isn't e-mail these days but spammers attempt
to attack blogs and other forms of social networking as well. I might
go into the Wordpress Dashboard and find a dozen posts like this.
"Hi, I'm so glad I found this weblog. I agree with you that the price
of prescription medicines in the US is too high. Click here to go to
the internet drug store to get your prescriptions filled for less than
half the price today."
Obviously, this is some type of sales pitch to buy prescription drugs
for less then the going rate in the US. Further more we don't know
where they come from, and if they are being purchased in another
country and being resold to the US that's illegal. Plus if I see a
message like that posted to a topic like "playing Older Games on
Windows 7" its obvious the post has nothing to do with the topic at
hand. That in a nutshell is spam.
Another type of spam is the fishing e-mail. They usually take the form
of a banker, businessman, or friend of someone who recently died and
left you huge sums of money in his/her will. They ask you to give you
the routing number to your bank account so they can deposit the sum of
x million dollars in it. Unfortunately, many gullible people have done
just that only to wake up the next morning to find their entire life
savings gone with the wind.
Other fishing spam messages are more devious. They might pretend to be
Paypal, your bank, Amazon, etc and tell you that they lost your
account info, and please click this link and fill out the form
correctly to correct your account info. The link will take you to some
fake website that looks like Amazon, Paypal, whatever but the domain
name in the address will be close enough to fool some people by
changing paypal.com to something like paypal-us.com which looks close
but not exactly the same website address. Many, many, many people have
been dooped by this kind of spam of handing their accounts over to
people who will steel their identity and sell it to someone else.
Cheers!
On 2/6/12, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote:
Some people are thinking that some of the messages to the list are spam.
These messages are not spam. Can some educated soul, educated being the
key
word here, explain spam to get the record straight? Thanks.
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