Monthly Archives: January 2009

This is what I get for being open-minded, I make friends with lots of people, but…there is a former co-worker of mine whom I gave my email address to when I left the job and she instantly became very annoying to me because she started forwarding me dozens of emails from her extremely right-wing, overly religious friends. I’ve replied to her more than once that I am a very liberal democrat and a non-believer so I don’t agree with those views, thinking she would stop sending those particular emails, but she obviously never even read my replies because I’m still getting her mother lode of nonsense emails after two years. She never bothers to write an actual email to ME. I’m trying to be nice, which is the only reason she is not on my spam list, but I think we have absolutely nothing in common now. I’ve even tried sending her some humorous left-wing oriented emails to counter hers and make her pay attention. Should I come right out and say it’s okay to send me emails if she wants to talk but I don’t need or want the stream of right-wing, religious stuff she sends or just put her on my spam list? We never actually talked before unless she showed up at my table at lunchtime and now I’m pretty sure I don’t want to talk to her anymore. It sometimes feels like she’s trying to convert me with these emails so now everytime I see her name, it turns my stomach because I’m seriously tired of deleting this crap. Should I just put her on my spam list? What do you think? Will y’all please just give me permission and make me feel better about shutting her down?

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I have a Yahoo email but am getting so much spam I am ready to kill it HELP

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I get like 10 of these types of e-mails a day to my yahoo account. My Spam is on and I continue to get them…..PLEASE HELP!!!!

“MY CONTRIBUTION TO FATE!!!

My warm greetings to you. Do take this email as a contribution to fate.
This is not an easy task and that is the main reason why I contacted you
after viewing your profile from the internnational directory.you are the
best with my intellectual grading and i was driven to contact you from my
innermost being.

I am Mrs. Marina Litvinenko, wife of Alexander Litvinenko, a former
Russian security officer who died in a London hospital after apparently
being poisoned with the highly-toxic metal thallium by Mr Lugovoi,a
Russian Government Paid agent.

This is my husband’s life in a video for your full understanding.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-420098/MI5-told-Litvinenko-Your-life-danger.html

You can read articles about my Husband’s ordeal via the websites below:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6162562.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6708103.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490007&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

Please I want you to assist in donating and distributing these funds to
charity in your region on behalf of my humbleself and my late husband, I
shall be presenting the said funds (USD$3.5M) to you which was given to my
husband before his death by Mr Berezovsky,A Russian Billionaire, Who he
saved his life by exposing the plot against him.

The Funds are deposited with a Citi Group Uk and I will want this funds
for charity purpose in your region and with your assistance, you shall be
getting 35% as your charitable support funds and 65% for the charity home
you shall be visiting to help. Please always let the charity Home know
that this was possible with the help of a foreigner by the name Mrs.
Marina Litvinenko.

As soon as I receive your response,I will furnish you with more details on
this issue. As i realise that all things are vanity when you are not
helping others.I do not want the funds from the Bank and I will not let
the government to have it as dormant funds and laid claims on it. And that
is why i want you to help the less privilege with the said funds for
charity purpose in your region.

Best Regards,

Mrs.Marina Litvinenko

Hope to hear from you soonest.”

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I received and email from someone claiming to be with “Anti-Terrorist and International Fraud Division”. It is some stupid email that claims I won $800,000 but all I had to do was send them $850, blah blah blah…Anyway, I know it’s a scam. So my question is…is there somewhere where I can report this scam. And I am not talking about SPAM. Isn’t there some people I can report this to, so they can put a stop to it or something? Cuz I would hate for someone more unaware to receive it and actually fall for the scam, you know? And the phone number they give to call is from another country, you can tell. So anyway…anyone know if I can report this email or what?

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Why am I receiving spam from “DomainKeys” verified accounts in my email? I have up till now tended to trust the “DomainKeys verified” tag that comes with some emails. If an email has this tag beside the address, I tend to give it a certain amount of trust because I was under the impression that Yahoo was vouching for them.

I received an email today that said the following:

From: “Lily Tran”

get in bed with me at h o t c o r a . c o m

The user had a DomainKeys Verified tag beside the address… and if this was not an obvious advertisement, but instead, a spoof of an email my bank, credit agency or magazine subscription was sending me, I very well may have just clicked away on any link offered.

The point I am trying to make here is this: I have up until trusted Yahoo and the DomainKeys Verified system they have going for their users, but if this system is already being compromised for silly things like porn advertisements, what is to stop the serious criminals from manipulating this as well?

So much for safe emailing from Yahoo… Guess I will have to return to the days of taking every email I get in my Yahoo account with a grain of salt.

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