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Postby magicdiscoman » Jun 21st, '06, 15:08



iv'e been getting some blank e-mails this week so if anyone is trying to e-mail me and not getting a response please let me know here thanxs.

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Postby Mandrake » Jun 21st, '06, 15:13

These are also quite likely to be spam - we get them a lot at work and we can't add the sender to the Junk mail list as there are no senders' details shown. Crafty or what?

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Postby magicdiscoman » Jun 21st, '06, 15:27

properties did show a return path to an ibm site, just making sure no-one is being left out.

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Postby dat8962 » Jun 21st, '06, 17:03

Funny that you should mention this as I've also been receiving the same, although I haven't looked at tracking them back but will with the next one.

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Postby magicdiscoman » Jun 21st, '06, 18:11

mostly my junk mail is stock tips.

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Postby Tomo » Jun 21st, '06, 18:17

I get a lot of bizarre spam. Thing is, who'd buy fake Viagra from some spiv who can't spell p*nis? :?

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Postby magicdiscoman » Jun 21st, '06, 18:23

never had that problem then again my pants come in xs thats extra small folks. :lol:

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Postby Stephen Ward » Jun 21st, '06, 19:55

Spam. i get these

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Postby nickj » Jun 22nd, '06, 20:43

What is their purpose?

I can see why idiots think that they might sell some of their product or scam some people if they send 500 copies to everyone in the world, I can even kind of see why some sad little muppet might think it worthwhile to send out hundreds of virii, but why a totally blank email?

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Postby Stephen Ward » Jun 22nd, '06, 20:47

This is what gets me! i got about three this morning. I passed them onto a computer expert i know and he could not find anything hidden in it. So it is a real mystery. I go an email from another friend today and he got 6. Just plain weird.

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Postby Tomo » Jun 22nd, '06, 20:49

nickj wrote:What is their purpose?

I can see why idiots think that they might sell some of their product or scam some people if they send 500 copies to everyone in the world, I can even kind of see why some sad little muppet might think it worthwhile to send out hundreds of virii, but why a totally blank email?

Daft isn't it. I bet it's just to prove that it 's possible.

I got some spam today for "Viagra Plus". Viagra I can uderstand, but Viagra Plus?

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Postby magicdiscoman » Jun 22nd, '06, 21:54

one theory ios that its spammers checking the e-mail datavbases for dud e-mail sources which of cause they sell on to other spamers.

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Postby MagicIain » Jun 23rd, '06, 10:15

I've had a few blank ones in the last couple weeks too.

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Postby Mandrake » Jun 23rd, '06, 10:34

I wonder if these blank e-mails are messages from Psychics who haven't quite got the hang of things yet? No? OK!

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