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The Spam War
Yep, as an ebay seller and the owner of multiple websites, I get
TONS of Spam everyday.
Of the eighty plus emails we receive everyday, roughly 60% are:
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UCE's (Unsolicited Commercial Email)
Buy this, try that, donate money...blah, blah, blah.
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Con Jobs
(...help me, I am a Christian with $28,000,000 that I need your bank
account to use to smuggle it out of Nigeria or Indonesia and you can keep
30% for being so kind...)
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Porn
(no examples will be made here!)
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Spoofs
(your eBay account, Paypal account, Wausau Bank account, etc is about to
be terminated unless you log in via our link here and give us your
bank/credit card info...)
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At least 30 minutes of every day is spent dealing with
this. We take the time to forward EVERY single Spam to the
appropriate authorities. The FTC and various security services for
Paypal, eBay, and banking & stocks websites make every effort to go after
these folks. By forwarding every Spam to these folks, I believe that
I actually save time because, believe it or not, this has cut the Spam I
receive by roughly 75%!!
If Spam is an issue with you, here are some good websites for information.
If you find more sites, please let us know and we will evaluate them for
listing here. We are not endorsing these sites but are providing
links for your exploration and education into the world of Spam.
Happy hunting! |
Page last modified February 8th, 2005
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