Now, even more annoying scam spam
Yes, I know it works. Is education the answer to this? Spammers wouldn’t do it if people weren’t clicking on this dumb shit. Here’s one from today, with links edited to not help them:
Subject: Hey, are you watching Lost?
Which show do you watch, lost or survivor? I can’t wait to see what happens on lost this week, (its my favorite one). The last episode was so good. I can’t believe Sun is going to die, Anyhoo if you like lost or survivor there is a company that has incentives just to answer which one.
As a thanks for your time, they give you a five hundred dollar best buy gift card. I’ve already got my gift card and now I have both of these shows on d.v.d. from best buy10 seconds of your day is all it will take.
http://15-<my-email-address-backwards>.<spammersite>.com
Sincerely,
Brad—————————————————————————————————–
RCC 4 8 7 e.1000s o uth , pleasant Gr UT 840 62
<spammermail>@<spammersite>.com
And if you go to <spammersite>.com, it gives an 500 Internal Server error, sweet. That must be effective. It does work if you use one of their email-capturing subdomain-formatted URLs (I faked one up), and turns out to be a thing for YourTopBrands.com, which appears to be a sleazy rewards-arbitrage scam site. Lamers.
[...] Now, even more annoying scam spam By Ben Margolin It does work if you use one of their email-capturing subdomain-formatted URLs (I faked one up), and turns out to be a thing for YourTopBrands.com, which appears to be a sleazy rewards-arbitrage scam site. Lamers. [...]