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Default Fun with spammers


"Why are people so cruel" wrote in message
d.com...

"Jon Anderson" wrote in message
...
I am constantly getting emails from outfits in China pitching mold making
services. Probably because prototype and design are part of my business
name. Anyway, got one today in fine Chinglish, asking if I need any mould.

I replied, "I just checked my refrigerator, and I have plenty of mould,
thank you for asking"

I'll be that has them scratching their heads for a bit... lol


Jon


I like to reply to the ones asking for my bank account details, I reply
with dud information and sit back and think of the hours they'll spend
trying to get into that account. I'm sure if about 10,000 people did that
every week their business model would be destroyed, it would take
longer and longer to enter the fake info each week with no return.

We've also had a spate of phone calls from "Microsoft customer service"
offering to fix up our PCs. If I have half an hour to spare I like to
string
them along asking them how to make my Win95 work faster.

A friend liked to pretend he had been shot and pleading for help, until
the police turned up!! At least one phone spammer with a conscience.


I have been getting calls from the "Technical Department of Computers". If I
am in the mood, I start into the Bugs Bunny routine, "Oh, my Stars! You must
be such INNNNTERESTING people in the technical department of computers..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acfx4orazEk

For some reason it is satisfying to have a spam caller hang up on you in a
state of befuddlement.