Make Millions Of Dollars Easy As Pie

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I read elsewhere that spam is on the rise again.

But then, is it any surprise?

[rob62521]

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I have noticed that since I have requested freebies that my box is full of unwanted mail and I have to add it to the spam area. I'm sure there is a reason they're giving away things free

I use a different email than my regular one to register for the freebies. That way the one I use for correspondence isn't full of spam from the requested freebies. Yet, I still get enough spam...

[DivaJen]

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I've gotten about three times the regular amount of spam over the last week or two. An email address that I've had for at least 7 or 8 years now had 142 spam messages yesterday. I have them sent to a spam folder on the server and get one summary email a day that shows sender and subject line, so at least I'm not having to deal with all that spam. Still, it does take time to wade through the summary. Annoying, very annoying.

[jeffrey]

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One of the curses of having your email on the Internet for a site like this is massive amounts of spam. I usually get over 1000 a day (and sometimes as many as 5000) into the junk mail folder and several hundred a day that make it past the filters. Most annoying thing about my job...

[rduell]

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I have noticed a huge increase in the amount of spam I've gotten lately too. Seems the filters aren't filtering very well.

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Spammers are always trying to find ways around filters. One of the latest trends is using images to circumvent text filters. I always set my filters to text only. Images and even HTML are blocked. Just plain, boring text.

I think some email clients are capable of blocking out any emails containing images, and for a public or business email accounts, that's something worth looking into.

[rob62521]

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My school district tried changing the filters to eliminate the sudden influx of spam, but in so doing, it meant many of us couldn't get into different educational websites. Can't win, I guess!

[normanleonard]

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what a bunch of crap

[Aleta]

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To Rob62521: That's a great idea. I'm going to consider it.

[kateochang]

I wish there is an easy (as easy as it could be!) way to earn money but sadly, there none yet. Even joining an MLM would require you to do some hardwork first, then only you will enjoy the wealth later.

Noting comes easy in life.

Cheers!

[The Budget Man]

Many years ago a friend got me involved with a multlevel marketing group. (Now some MLM's are OK. I've spoken about finances at many a mlm conference and met lots of lovely people.)

Anyhow this mlm was a great idea but it didn't have a chance of working because the promoters were too greedy (read crooks). We were coming home from a meeting and one person was saying "this mlm has got to work I need the money."

The penny dropped for me! The reason we get caught up with or look at these preposterous scams is that we disconnect reason. Our desire for money lets us ignore the obvious flaws of what is on offer. We think something has to work because we need the money.

These days I'm lightning fast with the delete key and if anything seems too good to be true I ignore it.

[Dave Rowtree]

DO people still fall for these? It really is incredible.

A similar scam I heard of took advantage of peoples perception of probability. An email is recieved stating that in next Saturdays derby game between Liverpool and Everton, Liverpool will win.

You shrug, discount it. That weekend, Liverpool win.

Right afterwards you get an email saying "See I told you. Next week Chealsea will lose to Man U"

You await the results that weekend. Chealsea indeed, do lose to Man U.

A third (forth? fifth?) email comes. See how right we are all the time? We can tell you how to do this and help you make millions in betting, All you need to do is send £1000 yadd yadd yadda.....

How does it work?

Thousands of emails are sent out; half stating Everton will win, half stating liverpool will win. Of the half the recipients who had the right result, half are sent another email predicting one side winning, the other half predicting the other result. And so on.

Out of the thousands of emails sent out initially, a small group of people (After 3 emails, 1/8th, 4 emails 1/16th etc) willl have had emails amazingly accurate for every game and willing to pay for the "secret". Have enough people in your mail shot and you get a few victims who give in and you get your cash.

Amazingly immoral but interesting how these things work.

[Hanuka]

hm... i dunno about that...

[jjc84]

iv seen the footy scam thing - very clever. just dont sign up to any betting-related mailing lists as they won't leave you alone!

[Mosher]

I fell for this too years ago.