Seems the forum is beeing flooded with spams once again...
But in the middle of all the annoyance it causes us who look for a serious topic or for the overseers who have to get rid of it, I can't help finding them a little humourous.
Now, I flatter my self that I know some about English grammar. Not perfect, and I'm sure I make blunders here and there. But some of the spam headlines are a treasure if you look for grammar errors, why, some are next to completely intelligible. Take this one for example:
'In order to might need anyones impression about this method all new browse barrier grouping involved with wetsuits'
I had to reread it five times to get some sense out of it... The first three words seem understandable enough. But then the writer just goes on without explaining what he needs! Okay, anyone's impression... Impression? I'm not one bit impressed, but I'll gladly give him my opinion instead. Then... new browse barrier? What barrier? And grouping involved with wetsuits? Wetsuits?! (Somehow I'm not able to imagine Vinnie scuba diving...)
Or maybe you have a better idea of what this line of gibberish could be? All suggestions are welcome :D
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I can't help giggling at this one:
'I am desperate for some help! My best friend and I are on the duet acting and this year we are having some trouble finding a good dramatic duet! I live in Europe and I cant get to a local library or a book store because they done have them here! Are only hope is the internet but we cant find anything. We have some ideas from movies but we cant find any scripts online! Please help!'
Now this one is properly spelled and only with one or two grammatical errors. But... the writer makes it seem like there're no libraries or book stores in all of Europe! As far as I'm concerned, Denmark is a part of Europe, and I once worked at a book store and now at a library. As far as I'm concerned, they do exist ^^
Now, I've said enough. If you don't share my opinion on this subject, you're probably the sane ones. But if you have other beauties either from here or another forum, please share them with me :D
Mars is under a heavy invasion by SPAM bots for sure...
Seriously though it won't be long until spam occupies a larger percentage of the web than porn. O_o
It would give my hand a break. *click* *Click* Although yes I have been slacking lately. Gotta love work. XD
Jeeze and here I thought the email I once got seem petty.
The email's Subject was spelled correct reading:
"I am writing to......."
Writing to what? I don't know! My anti virus soft ware stated not to open it but to delete it right away as it carried a system damaging virus. So I deleted it and it kept up until I put it in to spam. THAT stopped it.
Oh, do I know those, Blades! I get them all the time. And I have no ideas how many cell phones or Playstations I have won so far XD
Sometimes I like reading those mails without files attatched. Usually casting some widow who has a fortune of a hundred billion trillion dollars that some evil organization has got it's filthy hands on. She is old and has no successors, so if I want to help her retrieve all these fortunes I can have them all! I just can't help laughing at such transperant idiocy! And she wants my help, because she trusts me completely. Some total stranger, she trusts completely? Yeah right! XD
Oh, do I know those, Blades! I get them all the time. And I have no ideas how many cell phones or Play Stations I have won so far XDSometimes I like reading those mails without files attached. Usually casting some widow who has a fortune of a hundred billion trillion dollars that some evil organization has got it's filthy hands on. She is old and has no successors, so if I want to help her retrieve all these fortunes I can have them all! I just can't help laughing at such transparent idiocy! And she wants my help, because she trusts me completely. Some total stranger, she trusts completely? Yeah right! XD
Well the very last one I got came from Great Britain stating that some bozo's father that had just passed away had known MY girlfriend's grandfather who is also deceased from their time in WWII and in his honor so and so's father left her a million dollar inheritance to be received upon her twenty first birthday....uhmm bozo the clown,my girlfriend's grandfather/father was still just a kid when war broke out! I highly doubt that the Canadian Military took minors still in grade school for active duty! Besides he only served in I believe from what she told me Korea and Nam and that was it and other then that she's already thirty one going on thirty two.
The rest of the virus free email stated that this bozo's father and her grandfather/father were best friends in the Trenches and went on to describe how they fought together side by side.
All she had to do was fill in the forms this idiot had sent her and send them back.
Did she? Yep but with Phony Information, she isn't stupid. She filled out the forms with phony information and a P.O.Box for an address and within six months this bozo sent her a check that she took to her lawyer before it went to the bank and it was a good thing she did, if she had taken it to the bank, she'd have been arrested for forging checks.
When she told me about how this guy's dad was friends with her grandfather I said 'I highly doubt it! By the time this bozo's father entered into the service,your grandfather had been dead and buried for close to two years! I'd like to know HOW he met your grandfather when he'd passed from Mesothelioma!'
"It is you that in the photo?" and then an everlong link in the email. Yeeeeaaah.
Tsk! First of all: most of my friends're italian and they don't wrote to me in english! xD
And if one of my foreign friends would wrote to me, surely they'll wrote a little different, ya know.
I think that 'mr. Spam' should know...!! Or not? XD
But that's really fun, how they try to get you in every way.
I'm surpise, however, of all the language spoken here by the spam!
(I think it's the new way of the Plutarkian to get our planet ù__ù)
AAARRRGGHHHHH, PLUTARKIANS! Everybody, get your blastguns and your clothes-pegs! *Starts waving around like an idiot* ... *Get a hold of my self*
You're right, NaTohsaka. Or you get a pretty normal title like 'Hello' signed a mail address that you know. 'Hello' is pretty okay no matter where you live, but then you click the mail and then it starts (in English which my Danish friends would probably never use) to tell about this awesome website where he/she has bought the brand new iPhone for $2 with no sim lock or anything. Riiiight... XD
AAARRRGGHHHHH, PLUTARKIANS! Everybody, get your blastguns and your clothes-pegs! *Starts waving around like an idiot* ... *Get a hold of my self*
I'm following you!!! >_< Let's blast them away! :D ... *uh-oh ù.ù*
You're right, NaTohsaka. Or you get a pretty normal title like 'Hello' signed a mail address that you know. 'Hello' is pretty okay no matter where you live, but then you click the mail and then it starts (in English which my Danish friends would probably never use) to tell about this awesome website where he/she has bought the brand new iPhone for $2 with no sim lock or anything. Riiiight... XD
It's sooo true!! XD
If every spam I've had was true, now I'll be so rich and fullfied whit thousand of iphones =D
And then, speaking about porn spam, I think they've started (just read the lasts two topics...) ... :V omg.
Same thing here. I would be living in a mansion with 300 bedrooms and ten swimming pools if those mails had all been true. Buuut they're not, so for now I'll stay in my nice little rental with one bedroom ^^
I've repaired the antispam missile battery, gonna need some tuning though.
Sounds great, Torama. I really appreciate what you do to keep this site running :)
Shaolin Webmonkey
Yeh rollback nuked most of my spamkiller module which is annoying >_< I should probably reupload and reinstall it just to take care of the problem til I finish the upgrade plan (and the actual upgrade).
"You ride the waves and don't ask where they go."