Apparently the spammers know more about my family history than I do. Why else would I receive e-mails for Blacks Meeting Blacks and Single Jews Seeking Partners and all sorts of other ethnically-based sites? The ED-related sites seem to now be outnumbered by those wanting to sell me inexpensive ink cartridges. DeVry must really be desperate for students if they want me. Fortunately, these all end up getting captured by my junk filter.
Another inexplicable thing is that a wide variety of topics all seem to have been sent by the same sender. Must be the Wal*Mart of cybersales.
Am I the only one having these experiences?
Yes, the spammers are targeting you exclusively. They need Your money.....:-D
From my limited understanding, there are a couple primary reasons we all get tons of unwanted "invitations" to give our money to another.
One would be an "easy to guess" email address. Yourlastname@server type thing.
Another would be buying something online. I took a brief glance at a so called "privacy policy" this morning. Clearly stated was that the company I would pay money to would share email addresses with 3rd party advertisers.
> Apparently the spammers know more about my family history than I do. Why else would I receive e-mails for Blacks Meeting Blacks and Single Jews Seeking Partners and all sorts of other ethnically-based sites?
What no whites meeting whites? Oh I forgot that is not PC..even for spammers
> ...Blacks Meeting Blacks and Single Jews Seeking Partners...
Perhaps Whoopee Goldberg is behind all the spamming?
Some stores, such as Office Depot, give you an option as to whether to print your receipt or email it to you when you make a purchase in their store. Never choose the latter.
I've found that despite advice to the contrary, going to the bottom of those spam emails and finding the link for "Unsubscribe", "Remove", or a dozen other wordings does work for most of them.
My old account had grown to several dozen spam per day, in addition to who knows how many my ISP was filtering. I decided to experiment and started unsubscribing to a dozen every morning. I'm down to a few random ones plus several of the same style on various topics from one operation that I haven't been able to get rid of.
The hard part was figuring out enough of the foreign language ones to pick out their unsubscribe link. I don't know Italian, Swedish, Russian, or Portuguese. For some unknown reason a big percentage was from Brazil. Decadastro is a good word that a surveyor can puzzle out. The asian languages still have me baffled, but sometimes you can still recognize the link URL.
The remaining operation seems to use browser cookies that are left when you visit web sites. I think the link in those emails converts the cookie to a "don't spam" one, so if you delete cookies you are susceptible to them again.
