Monday, August 11, 2008

SPAM Gripe

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Are you Financially Secure?
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Picture Yourself an eBay Millionaire!
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I know for a fact that you can get a great car with bad credit (see offer)
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The DELICIOUS and NATURAL way to Cleanse your body! (see offer for details)
$100 Visa Gift Card for completing 1 free offer!
Exxon gas card: reddirtflower@yahoo.com - please confirm
SCHOOL IS COOL when YOU MAKE THE RULES! Learn at home. (see offer)
Single Christians Want to Meet You
Start Your Career In Criminal Justice - Scholarships Available
Need some extra cash? We'll buy your old gold! (see offer for details)
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@LET US SELL OR RENT YOUR TIMESHARE FOR CASH. (SEE OFFER FOR DETAILS)@
Kaplan University Email Offers
Dumb and poor? Here's a simple way to make MONEY!

This is just a sample of the 235 entries in my SPAM box this morning. Does anybody else get this abundance of advertising emails? What in the world did I sign up for to be so-blessed with these? aaarrrrg

If I wanted to be slim, rich, (re)married, educated or my innards cleaned out, I have every option to do so. Not that I couldn't stand to be slimmer, have more money, smarter, or a different husband (not even touching that one), and I sure don't want to spend more time in the potty.

Does anybody ever buy from these ads in their emails? Just my (first)gripe for this Monday.

15 comments:

Kristie said...

Giggle! That looks like my Spam box! I hate that stuff, I just hit delete, it is really a waste of time sending it because no one ever reads it, or at least I hope they don't!!!!
Kristie

SchnauzerMom said...

You mean Christian Singles want to meet you too? I've won the UK Lottery several times now. If I didn't clean the spam box out regularly I'd have hundreds in there. I don't even open them much less order from them.

Marla said...

I don't know if it is my spam blocker or my ISP but I get MAYBE two pieces of junk for ahem....well, unmentionables a MONTH! I will consider myself LUCKY!

Gail said...

I don't read them, just delete from the spam box. I am amazed at how many ads I get for a certain piece of male anatomy that is apparently inadequate......hellloooooo, I'm female! What a pain.

Traci @ The Bakery said...

I never got that many until I started my blog.....I think they sell our stuff. The most frequent this week is work for craigslist.....sheesh.

jacquie said...

just viagra for me...over and over and over and over...canadian pharmacies are very concerned about me!

em's scrapbag said...

Isn't the delete button wonderful.

The Calico Cat said...

Ya know, i am not sure how I worked it out, but my spam box does not fill... (Maybe because I am on the pay part of yahoo...)

I do get a few (1 or 2 a week) in my regular inbox, but then I get to feel quite self righteous when I click the spam button on them. (I really hope that that helps yahoo filter them better.)

No I have NEVER EVER considered buying from them, nor have I considere buying from a door to door or telephone call seller. If I want it, I will go out & look for it. Thankyouverymuch. & I obviously do not have any problems there!

Amelia said...

I don't get many...but I agree they are a pain the posterior.

Aunt Jo said...

They are a pain. Thankfully, I don't get many and the ones I do get all go to my gmail account.

Anonymous said...

I get TONS! I had this great plan once to spell my name wrong just to see if they sent spam. I ended up getting a lot of spam from this company...too bad i forgot who it was. but it was a quilting site. I think it is one of those things where instead of selling your mailing address, they sell your email address....

Annie said...

I get tons for Rolex watches, Viagra, and dozens of different ways to increase the size of my (censored).

I use MailWasher free and bounce all the trash. That's at least cut down on the spam quite a bit.

julieQ said...

Haha! I don't get spam hardly at all anymore, my DH has filtered it out somehow, which is wonderful! If half those adds were true life would be something, wouldn't it?

Linda C said...

you appear to get a whole nuther bunch than I get. One address seems to get the sexual solution, another all the malware containing CNN or MSNBC breaking news. Most of it gets caught but some sneaks through when I looks like I am mailing it to myself--which I am not doing.

I guess this is just part and parcel of being online and in a public forum. Doesn't make it any less palatable though.

Anonymous said...

Luckily I get very little spam and I'm glad. I think I have my anti-virus software to thank. Your list left me both laughing and a bit exhausted. :)