Spammers Targeting Geeks For No Good Reason
from the bad-target-marketing dept
Generally speaking, if you're looking for a group of folks who almost universally dislike spam and would like to see it gone from existence, a bunch of techies is probably that group. So it's hard to see the value in spammers specifically targeting techies with spam. It seems that some spammers are going a page beyond their use of classic literature to fool spam filters, and are now starting to include various geek terms and phrases, hoping to bypass various bayesian filters, or (perhaps) make them useless. Of course, this involves the same sort of fallacy as the one used by spammers who refuse to remove people who request removal. Spamming these people is simply bad business. They're not going to buy from the spam. It's only going to be a waste of time. The only purpose is basically to create a nuisance -- which is probably why it's being done. However, you'd have to think there are plenty of better, and more lucrative, ways for a spammer to target spam.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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God bless G-mail. Not one piece of spam the entire time i have had an account."
YESSS i love it... although in GMAIL... the auto ads that show up... in the SPAM folder the ads for SPAM (the product) show up.. i love it.. HAHAHAA
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Spamming sysadmins?
And then when they finally figure out how to work it, they send spam mail and are shut down in about 45 seconds, and send some email that says PHArmxcZY.
OK, if I have money to spend, I would definitely not send money to someone who can't spell Pharmacy, Viagara, or anything else related to his post, or someone who disguises what he is trying to sell.
Oh, you say that he changed the spelling so that it would get past your spam blocker? Let's translate that. Joe says "I don't want Viagara spam." Spammer says "I will send a misspelled, offshore, poorly-done message to a guy who doesn't want this crap in the first place, and I will send it over and over again to get into his good graces."
Idiots. Most spammers will never figure out why they fail in everything they try.
So sad.
Dave
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Re: Spamming sysadmins?
Sadly, sometimes they're right.
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I'd like to see some concrete proof of this. If spamming wasn't achieving a result it would DECREASE. I don't see this happening. If anything it's increasing!
Unless you have some hard data to back up what seems to me as ignorance I suggest you stop and consider that there are likely more sufficiently skilled idiots in the world that fall for this shit as you think. I don't take spammers for a dumb bunch and if you do I think the you're either one of em and think it's funny or your dumber than you think they are.
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Viagara?
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Computer nerds vs. Computer nerds!
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IBM had the right idea
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the smarmy cock suckers are making money...
when it stops being profitable...spam will cease.
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Pagerwho?
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Spammers?
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The little blue pill
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spam king
also, you should know that like 90% of all spam is sent by 10 companies. the government has a list of the top ten. names, assresses, and so on. instead, they do stupid crap like attach gambling bills to important port security bills. hello bush, line item veto!!!
term limits for senators. that's all i have to say.
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Bayesian Filters
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Spam in the box
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GPL
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Who's the idiot?
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I doubt the real Pfizer is using spammers
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Easy way?
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return to sender
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