has anyone ever had spam, and felt a giant urge to reply because of how stupid the sender is?
I did, and I couldn't resist XD
he wrote saying that his buisiness proposition was "top secret" and he had got a hold of my company who agreed to it.

I pointed out I was at school, said how amazed I was that I had a company and gave him a link to a rickroll video as my contact details.

needless to say, I lolled when doing that. I lolled HARD XDDDDDD

Ok. . .

the problem with doing that means that the spammer ads you to his database as a real sender not a fake one.

... x100

That message back may have not been worth that much to you. But the spammer, on the other hand, sold your email address as an active email to thousands of other lists. Prepare for a shitstorm my friend. You may be in for a bumpy ride.

This was the smartest idea possible on the net.

PortalFan77 wrote:
This was the smartest idea possible on the net.

Your better off telling everyone were you live and what school or job you go to. NOW THAT IS SMART!! :V

I never bother looking at that stuff, I instantly delete it.

I only get forwarded spam which says "pass this on to a million people or you will die"

hanging_rope wrote:
I only get forwarded spam which says "pass this on to a million people or you will die"

Meh.. that's a softball prediction. Everyone dies, eventually. Now if they would say when you die, now that would be interesting.
Usually that kind of crap takes the fast train to /dev/null as soon as i see the subject line.

hanging_rope wrote:
I only get forwarded spam which says "pass this on to a million people or you will die"

Those are the ones I delete first, I'm still here.

I've broken so many chain e-mails that I don't even want to guess at the number.

I read them because they are hilarious, but never forward them on.
AAlso they do say when you will die, such as you will die on sunday at midnight. One I got even said you will die at 1pm tomorrow morning.

I use to read them every now and then but I just ignore them now. Why is the world full of pointless shit like this? Granted they're funny occasionally but "forward this or you will die"!! Do people actually believe this? I reckon on some level some people will feel the need to pass it on after reading stuff like " forward to ten people within 10 minutes and you'll meet the person of your dreams tommorow".

Utter bollocks and a waste of perfectly good 1's and 0's.

I hate the ones you get sent and you actually want to pass it on because it has some important information in it, but then says "pass it on and you will meet the love of your life this saturday.

hanging_rope wrote:
I hate the ones you get sent and you actually want to pass it on because it has some important information in it, but then says "pass it on and you will meet the love of your life this saturday.

important information? do you mean hoax as these information are not true?

hanging_rope wrote:
I read them because they are hilarious, but never forward them on.
AAlso they do say when you will die, such as you will die on sunday at midnight. One I got even said you will die at 1pm tomorrow morning.

1pm tomorrow morning huh? So I guess your going to die in a different time zone than the one your in?

Mek wrote:
important information? do you mean hoax as these information are not true?

Yeah, like "Tell all your friends about this new grotty virus that is spreading around and trashing people's hard drives!"
Those e-mails are viruses themselves, they just have a different mode of operation.

jrlauer wrote:
1pm tomorrow morning huh? So I guess your going to die in a different time zone than the one your in?

Brain teaser: If the acclaimed time of death is at 2:30 AM just before the end of daylight saving time, would you die twice?

Actually what I meant was when they explain how bad the conditions for troops in Iraq are like or something like that but then say to pass it on.

HMW wrote:
Brain teaser: If the acclaimed time of death is at 2:30 AM just before the end of daylight saving time, would you die twice?

If you lived in the Half Life world you would.