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Originally posted by kangie
i once got so pissed off at a person who randomly spammed me with one of those "i knew a relative of yours, i have millions of dollars, for a fee of $500 i will transfer it to your bank account, all i need is your name, address, creditcard no., billing address for the CC, expiry date and security no. for that CC"
i just found 10 sites or so, and signed the replyto: email up to a couple of hundred newsletters.... hoped they enjoyed having their account filled up
almost all spams like that are coming from people/companies who sign up for multiple mails to send the spam from. They don't check that mailaddress, not do they care how much they recieve. They just let it die out and sign up for another emailadress the next time.
What it will do (reacting with signing the spamaddress up to other newsletters) is creating more bandwidth use on the net and slowing the net down even more...
eg: some years ago, when you send a mail, it was recieved on the other side of the world almost instantly. Now-a-days it can take up a whole day. And this isn't because of more people using the net (of course it has something to do with it, but that is only a very very small percentage) but because of 90% of the mail that is send in the world consists of spam/counter-spam/virusses/etc. There are many studies done and all come to this same conclussion...
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