#129836 - keldon - Sun May 27, 2007 10:12 pm
I think I have figured out the true purpose of hoax chain mails such as the ones warning you about phoney viruses and stuff and to start petitions to save people.
Basically what happens is that mail servers find it even more difficult to differentiate between meaningful emails, chain mail and junk! That's my hypothesis, anyone else got any?
#129837 - tepples - Mon May 28, 2007 12:27 am
That and to drop forwarding addresses into the .dbx or .pst file for spam trojans to pick up.
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#129839 - keldon - Mon May 28, 2007 12:44 am
Yes, I've always suspected that too as I have seen plenty of forwarded emails with thousands of email addresses attached. It's like the email providers haven't learned enough already; a forwarded message does not need to:
- (a) show the previous senders email addresses
- (b) put the previous message into a quote and add a signature
- (c) add "FW: " to the beginning of the title
- (d) be forwarded -_-
It's a little like saying, "hmmm I don't want to read this email, here you have it. [forward]"
#129841 - Dood77 - Mon May 28, 2007 1:54 am
Yeah, even if I'm just replying to a friend, by habit I remove all the extra information. My friends never believe me when I tell them that spammers use these specifically to farm email addresses. They get particularly mad when its one claiming each forward will get some little girl 5 cents for her operation. And sometimes I like to think I make friends with the smarter group at school.
(and I can't believe they haven't made spam illegal yet...)
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#129844 - Dwedit - Mon May 28, 2007 3:44 am
C'mon! Everyone knows that Barbara and David Mikkelson of snopes.com personally author every chain-email and urban legend ever made. Then they send them to their friends, who proceed to massively spread the message all around the Internets. Finally, visitors go to snopes.com to see whether the myth is true or not, and this makes Ad Revenue for snopes.com!
So it's all one gigantic ad-revenue scam! Boycott snopes.com!
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#129852 - keldon - Mon May 28, 2007 9:07 am
lol; that's one neat conspiracy theory, a little like my theory of who 'really' makes viruses because their businesses rely on them <_<
#129963 - Lynx - Tue May 29, 2007 2:20 pm
| keldon wrote: |
Yes, I've always suspected that too as I have seen plenty of forwarded emails with thousands of email addresses attached. It's like the email providers haven't learned enough already; a forwarded message does not need to:
- (a) show the previous senders email addresses
- (b) put the previous message into a quote and add a signature
- (c) add "FW: " to the beginning of the title
- (d) be forwarded -_-
It's a little like saying, "hmmm I don't want to read this email, here you have it. [forward]" |
It does if you want to be contacted by Microsoft to receive your million dollars for forwarding the e-mail.. ;)
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#130557 - sgeos - Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:33 am
All email clients should be able to bounce messages. Forwarding is a bother.
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