Spam that isn't selling anything.

akumulatorakumulator
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
The last couple days I started receiving spam that isn't even trying to sell any product. It's completely pointless. Anyone know why this kind of spam is used for? Here's the latest one:



From: [email protected]

Subject: cetraria frill costusroot





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  • Reply 1 of 13
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Akumulator

    The last couple days I started receiving spam that isn't even trying to sell any product. It's completely pointless. Anyone know why this kind of spam is used for? Here's the latest one:



    From: [email protected]

    Subject: cetraria frill costusroot





    catafalque whirligig

    intense inaptitude hatiora regibus

    suslik ungroomed towzle odium mimesis cherish lora triseme mishap

    gnarl where eggcup spiral lowbred pruriency nonrigid vigorous



    I'd think that it's probably used to glean good emails from bad ones. Were there any images sent in the message? If so, and you loaded them, they probably know your address is a good one. Turn off images in your messages. Goddamn spam ruining email for everyone.
  • Reply 2 of 13
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    When did Lewis Carroll get Internet access and an e-mail account?
  • Reply 3 of 13
    lainlain Posts: 140member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Akumulator

    The last couple days I started receiving spam...



    Dont EVER reply, just delete. And never use your real (ie the one from your ISP) e-mail address for anyone but friends, dont post messages from it and dont e-mail companies from it, use Hotmail for anything other than friends.



    My work account gets about 150 spam e-mails daily... it can ruin your e-mail address.
  • Reply 4 of 13
    merovingianmerovingian Posts: 436member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Lain

    Dont EVER reply, just delete.



    And DON'T use Mail's "Bounce Message" feature. m.
  • Reply 5 of 13
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Merovingian

    And DON'T use Mail's "Bounce Message" feature. m.



    why not?
  • Reply 6 of 13
    mount_my_floppymount_my_floppy Posts: 913member
    At-least that spam is mildly entraining the first couple times you get it.. Not even that much could be said for the spam that makes your penis bigger.
  • Reply 7 of 13
    lainlain Posts: 140member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Paul

    why not?



    I think that possibly the SPAMMER can figure out what domain it came back from, thus it somewhat verifies your e-mail address... But I am only speculating.
  • Reply 8 of 13
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Paul

    why not?



    Because the mail/smtp server that they used to send the mail was spoofed and all it does it double or triple the traffic caused by that one email. You get the email, you bounce it, it bounces back because the server doesn't exist.



    The only way that feature is useful is if you bounce it to a known good mail server. Like I didn't feel like getting off buy.com's mail list. I bounced a few of their emails and I've not gotten any emails from them.
  • Reply 9 of 13
    drewpropsdrewprops Posts: 2,321member
    This is a problem that I have with Apple's MAIL app. Unlike Outlook Express, Mail doesn't provide a way (that I've found) to view the source of an email without first OPENING the email - which defeats the purpose of looking at the source anyway because all those specially-placed graphics load in from the spammer's site and they KNOW that there's a live fish at the end of that line. It's a silly oversight on Apple's part not to have this functionality included with MAIL.



    My 70-something old Mother laments over the fact that she doesn't have a "view source" option with her new eMac. That's saying something. I've posted a similar comment on the discussion boards...
  • Reply 10 of 13
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    That is a good point. I've been using Bounce a lot, perhaps I'll stop using it. Spamcop seems to have stopped working also, I signed up a long time ago and have their forwarding address to analyze spams in my Address Book but it always comes back saying "couldn't find any spam in this message" even if it's VIAGRA WILL MAKE YOU A BETTER LOVE BLAH BLAH blah and so forth. ****ing spam.
  • Reply 11 of 13
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by drewprops

    This is a problem that I have with Apple's MAIL app. Unlike Outlook Express, Mail doesn't provide a way (that I've found) to view the source of an email without first OPENING the email - which defeats the purpose of looking at the source anyway because all those specially-placed graphics load in from the spammer's site and they KNOW that there's a live fish at the end of that line. It's a silly oversight on Apple's part not to have this functionality included with MAIL.



    My 70-something old Mother laments over the fact that she doesn't have a "view source" option with her new eMac. That's saying something. I've posted a similar comment on the discussion boards...



    Turn off images and the graphics problem is solved. If you turn the images off, you'll have a button to "load images" for those emails you want to read.
  • Reply 12 of 13
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    How much spam do you guys get?!



    I know that I've gotten spam with old emails, and I know people get spams with their email, but I don't get any with my realbox.com account. We get tons on my families ISP account. I use my realbox account for everything, but am only slightly careful to only give my email out to sites I think look respectable. I think it helps I don't use hotline anymore where I would use my emails (not my ISP one though, I was kind to my family) to gain access to servers.
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