fantastic troll spam

[userwhoquitthesite]

So, spam is getting hilarious. I recently received a fake invitation to beta a new WoW expansion, which is funny enough in itself, as I hate WoW, but not that interesting. what makes it funny is that I just got ANOTHER one... from my own email address.
seems legit, neh?

Anyone else had any issues with this spam email, or have hilarious wtf spam stories?

 

[Jonluw]

From your own email adress?
Wouldn't that imply that your adress is sending out spam without you knowing?
I'm not computer-savvy, but you just might have a virus, man.

Download malwarebytes and stuff.

 

[Rawne1980]

Yes.

I have had several e-mails that my EVE account has had suspicious activity on it and could I go to a site and give them my username and password to verify my account.

Now the problem being dear phishing e-mail is I don't, nor have I ever, had an EVE account.

 

[AngleWyrm]

Without a doubt the most remarkable spam e-mail I ever got, was a non-automated e-mail ... I'd only see him at a specified date in two weeks, time and location, and filled in the adress of a psychiatric institution as the adress.

Heart of stone.

Nah, it's one of those Biggest Fish stories. You know: I was fishing just the other day and I caught Ariel the Mermaid! No kidding! It turns out that scaly fish tale comes off when she's on land, so we had some great sex. Then of course she had to go back to the sea.

 

[Dargocitfer]

From your own email adress?
Wouldn't that imply that your adress is sending out spam without you knowing?
I'm not computer-savvy, but you just might have a virus, man.

Download malwarebytes and stuff.

"Spoofing" the email address so that it seems like it comes from somewhere else is one of the most common SPAM tricks. I get emails from all sorts of interesting people, including myself.

If you look at the actual email headers you can see from where they truly originate. Most SPAM filters nowadays catch this trick pretty easily.

 

[Jonluw]

"Spoofing" the email address so that it seems like it comes from somewhere else is one of the most common SPAM tricks. I get emails from all sorts of interesting people, including myself.

If you look at the actual email headers you can see from where they truly originate. Most SPAM filters nowadays catch this trick pretty easily.

I see.
That's good at least.

 

[Tartarga]

I once got an email from Blizzard offering some kind of deal in WoW. I was suspicious because at no point in my life have I ever given them my email address.

Not really that funny but still relevant.

 

[Davey Woo]

I've only ever had a trial account for WoW, I never upgraded it or bought any play-time or whatever, and well after the trial period had ended, I was receiving emails about 'suspicious activity' on the account.

I also had a spam email from a very lovely lady called Katarina who was from Russia, and it was her dream to come to 'the United Kingoms' and marry a 'strong English man'.

Needless to say she was on the next plane to England and now we're happily married and expecting a baby...

 

[The Funslinger]

Well, I just checked my spam file. The two most common offenders are: a seller of Rolex Replicas, and something called "Fucbook".

Sigh...

 

[BENZOOKA]

I remember being at relatives as a kid, when suddenly a fax started rolling out from the fax machine. I'm not sure if it was even in Finnish, but probably English. Anywho, in the fax; a wife of a Nigerian prince very politely and formally asked if my relative could hold a few millions in his account and be handsomely rewarded for it, until the prince could safely have the money back again. The original spam scam. This is one that has most strongly stayed with me.

 

[aksel]

I mostly just get WoW (even though I've never played the damn thing), Viagra/"TOPHARMACEUTICALS:-XOITWAA23234672T" and various replica things.

One that stands out: "Women enjoy men who are stallions!"

Probably penis enlargement, but I imagined a site where people could meet up with centaurs.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Meh, all I get is spam offering me jobs filling out surveys or other scammy stuff. Like, that is 90% of the spam I get. I have no idea why. The funny thing is that it all goes to my school e-mail, not my main one that I actually use to sign up for stuff. :/

 

[Lizardon]

Well lets check the old spam folder and see what I've got.

Seems I've gotten emails from Devin, Maria, Nolan, William, Eve, David, Evan, Michael, Paige, Zoe and Robert all within the last week. They are all 28 year old single females who enjoys darts and are looking for a 18-40 year old man.

Seems I'm very popular with the ladies ... and the men.

 

[Hal10k]

All my spam folder tells me is that I've tried out way too many free MMOs.

 

[Wintermoot]

nearly empty although I get allot of e-mails from supposed girls that want to procreate with me

 

[doggy go 7]

Slightly different, but my home phone has somehow got onto a list, so we now receive regular (literally every day, and more often then not twice a day) automated calls in the middle of the day. I'm so used to them that I have now got a routine going, pick up, listen for the two seconds it takes for it to start, hang up after the first word (usually "hello", or the name of the bank I can get tax breaks from).