SPAM: what's the point?

I got the following a while back. No links, altho the CC: has a flakey-looking chinese address in it.

What is the PURPOSE to such stuff?

"Irene Platero" googles up as a Filipino name, FWIW. Altho I assume it's just some arbitrary selection.


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Hi sweetheart.
Please close my show and let me know the damages. IF I can get the 12" skillet and possibly the food chopper.

Also, did I give you the order for my 'guest' Tre? Need that damage as well.

Irene Platero needs to return her juice squeezer thingy. It broke. The pin came out. She bought it at my show last year.

Talk to you later. I need to leave here.

Love you all and am so very sorry to hear about what happened.

Mom

 

To drive our courageous fighters of the vicious Mals crazy trying to figure it out?rolleyes:-D
Actually looks like someone sent to the wrong address.

 

I think hrlow2 has a good point, may have sent to wrong person, like just one typo in the e-mail, and that will do it. I have gotten a few that didn't even have my e-mail on it. Was not to me, but came into my inbox. That is when I set up filters. TONS of filters.. I have no idea on how an e-mail can get into one's inbox, with someone else's e-mail address in the "to" part, and mine is no where in it. Beyond me! But it did.

Most spam would have a lot of misspelled words, and gibberish in the first place.. Yours looks pretty innocent, tho. Unless, :confused they ARE getting better at spamming, and making it look legit! rolleyes

 

I once received someone's hotel confirmation (including their home address and full credit card number with expiration date) in the mail for a wedding they were attending in North Carolina via email. I called the hotel to let them know (mostly because of the credit card info) and the woman insisted I had made the reservation. rolleyes

 

Spamming is the product of a weak mind that is unable to communicate in a cohesive fashion.

I have never been able to understand those who create viruses?

These are the people who are beyond redemption, just as those who maliciously do damage to property I.E. dragging keys along the side of a new Auto.

 

That is scary Did you contact the card holders?

 

We get stuff in mail at our home sometimes. A guy from Washington sent paper and pictures of "his company" saying he wanted to bring a business to our local area and wanted us to work and help him. Yet never heard of him, google didnt show anything, name and company nothing as well. Threw it out

 

Lesson learned early on when I thought it would be a good idea to set up a bounceback when I was on vacation. rolleyes Ended up having to close the account and get a new one, as my ISP at the time would bounceback ALL email without filtering for spam first.

And yes, Darlene, I did send them a note. Turns out their email was one number different from mine and they were wondering why they didn't get the confirmation. In the note I suggested they change hotels, because no one should EVER send out your full credit card information, even to you.

 

I've had that happen to me several times and I lambasted each and everyone. One small company that I dealt with that supplied whole organic grains thanked me profusely and gave me a $20 credit on the $100 purchase I had made claiming a serious brain fart.:-D I still deal with them to this day.

 

Yeah, I think Halo and Tibbs have it. Just phishing to see whether addy itself is real. I think they make the contents more and more nonsensical so saps like me will reply, saying "WTF you talking about?!"

I am baffled by TeeCee thinking this could be in any way a legitimate email directed elsewhere. It just READS so phony!

BTW, I too just delete spam, sans "bounce". Learned early on that bouncing stuff is equivalent to screaming "HEY LOOK AT ME, HERE I AM, ALIVE AND WAITING!!!!"

 

Most of the spam I get is for Viagra and hair restorer...spooky, I mean how do they know?

 

The point is that Spam works maybe one in a million. depending on what they're offering it could be a good year for them depending on how many suckers they catch. The spammers pay next to nothing to invade your space, don't keep giving them a reason to.

 

Agreed...it's a numbers game.