Spam and the Internet [Was: xxxl spam]

[mouss <us...@free.fr>]

Matt Kettler wrote:

> There's only one spammer that's done this to me. There's some group of stores in
> Guatemala that sends me high-res scans of their newspaper.
> 
> Consejeros en Finanzas Empresariales, some kind of bank
> La Cuacao  - some kind of electronics shop? or an eye doctor?
> cefesa hardware - a True Value hardware store.
> 
> 
> Why anyone in Guatemala thinks I'll visit their store to spend "Q. 22" on a
> patio log fake fire log or "Q. 85" on a generic brand weed and feed fertilizer
> is beyond me.
> 

dunno, but I can tell you that the net if full of people who love me and 
want me good. I keep winning all the lotteries. I can buy software at 
cheap prices (if someone can tell these guys that I have nor the time 
nor the need to use photoshop, that I already have windows+office, ... 
etc, that may save them some time/resources they can spend helping me in 
other areas:). others seems to need an urgent contact for an important 
relationship. I'm feeling like the ceo of a large company. Some even 
seem to know private infos about me. It seems I need some special pills. 
but for now, the names of the pills seem to change all the time. I'll 
wait until they get an agreement on how to name them:). They also keep 
talking about inches. if someone can tell them that we use the metric 
system here, I would be grateful...

Re: Spam and the Internet [Was: xxxl spam]

[Alan Premselaar <al...@12inch.com>]

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Matt Kettler wrote:
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> Here's one, if you want to see it:
> 
> http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mkettler/spam.jpg
> 
> 
> There's pretty close to zero chance that anyone in the US is going to hop on a
> plane and fly to Guatemala to buy ordinary lawn care products from a small
> store. But that's the kind of ads I'm getting.

but they've got heart-shaped pancake molds... you wouldn't fly to
guatamala for that?  and at Q.29?! what a bargain!


(heh, i couldn't resist)
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Re: Spam and the Internet [Was: xxxl spam]

[Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>]

mouss wrote:
> Matt Kettler wrote:

>>
>> Why anyone in Guatemala thinks I'll visit their store to spend "Q. 22"
>> on a
>> patio log fake fire log or "Q. 85" on a generic brand weed and feed
>> fertilizer
>> is beyond me.
>>
> 
> dunno, but I can tell you that the net if full of people who love me and
> want me good. I keep winning all the lotteries. I can buy software at
> cheap prices (if someone can tell these guys that I have nor the time
> nor the need to use photoshop, that I already have windows+office, ...
> etc, that may save them some time/resources they can spend helping me in
> other areas:). others seems to need an urgent contact for an important
> relationship. I'm feeling like the ceo of a large company. Some even
> seem to know private infos about me. It seems I need some special pills.
> but for now, the names of the pills seem to change all the time. I'll
> wait until they get an agreement on how to name them:). They also keep
> talking about inches. if someone can tell them that we use the metric
> system here, I would be grateful...

Yeah, but all those actually have some chance of financial gain from someone
located in another country. You'd have to be stupid, but it's possible, because
all of those can close an electronic transaction with you.


These spams I get from .gt don't offer any kind of online ordering. They are ads
that you'd have to physically travel to the store in Guatemala to take advantage
of them. They're ordinary weekly sales fliers for an ordinary local store that's
so small that only 6 cars can park in front of it. (They have pictures of the
store in some of them). Delivered to my mailbox as 1/2 meg .jpg files. It's
really quite bizarre, and amusing.

Here's one, if you want to see it:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mkettler/spam.jpg


There's pretty close to zero chance that anyone in the US is going to hop on a
plane and fly to Guatemala to buy ordinary lawn care products from a small
store. But that's the kind of ads I'm getting.