Re: OT: Wierdest Spam I ever recieved
 

My 15 year old sister receives a lot of 'penis enlargement' spam.

I tend to automatically erase anything that looks like spam (I had to retrieve some non-spam Messages from the trash folder more than once).

Do they ever work?
Even in the strange occasion that I might be interested in buying the product/service they offer, I'd already dismissed their email.

Re: OT: Wierdest Spam I ever recieved
 

Maybe they want us to think that the time travel story was a sympton of a mental break down. If he really were a time traveler, they would tell everybody that the guy was mentally unstable or something, to cover it all up. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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it's all a cover up, a cover up i tell you! THE LITTLE PURPLE MEN ARE GOING TO INVADE FROM ALPHA CENTURI!

but don't worry, our secret disintegrater ray in area 51 1/2 will destroy them.

you know, Rollo's got the perfect lines for this thread.

[ November 20, 2003, 05:47: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

Re: OT: Wierdest Spam I ever recieved
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">If you were a convicted fellon wouldn't you wanna time travel to? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Just a thought. Go back in time to the point at which you made the mistake that got you busted and warn yourself not to do it. Then again, if your a con man, you will think that your self from the future is attempting to con you so you wouldn't listen and you'd do exactly what he warned you not to do and would be busted again thus starting the time paradox that will repeat itself a cilltillion to the 1 cilliton power and then some.

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About the time travelling story, I really liked the part where a guy made up an Online store just for the spammer. Both text and pix are hilarious:
http://www.davesplanet.net/store/

For those who haven't found it, the story:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60141,00.html

Gorgo

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Yeah, the Dimensional Warp Generator email (cool name for a component, BTW). I got that one several times, always from German email addresses. I thought it was a joke (a funny one at that).

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A Dimensional Warp Generator? Hummm, come to think of it, I just might have one of those lying around in the back room, let me go look.

*BRB

I do have one left, and at a great price too. Only $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00

And that is at cost to.

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"friend prices"

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Ah what the hell, knock a billion off. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Check this out.. regarding spam filters.

http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/34035.html

Re: OT: Wierdest Spam I ever recieved
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">the 'Acme' tends to make me believe it's a big scam. for those of you who don't know, acme was a company that sold cheap gags. plus, in the cartoons i watched it had an unfailing ability to deliver weird gadgets to cartoon character's. although the gadgets themselves weren't always satisfactory.