An honest scammer | The Coffeehouse

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

My god, I thought this was pretty funny: an honest scammer Big Smile

spivonious

ROFLMFAO

Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

Haha, yeah, I'm also getting spam emails of that sort explicitly havin "spam" in the subject line. I guess they just hope for the really stupid people to respond.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

In reply to Dodo

#Apr 5th @ 6:10 PM

Are you sure your ISP or mail provider doesn't have a spam filter that adds that to the subject line on suspected spam mails? Mine does.

sushovande
Smiley Face Sharp

In reply to Sven Groot

#Apr 5th @ 6:51 PM

I got one of them too - and I am on Yahoo Mail (well one of my accounts is, at any rate).

tfraser

It has to be fake since Robert Dutu needs to be a contact of Mike Nash, hence both know each other.

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

In reply to tfraser

#Apr 5th @ 11:49 PM

You never received requests from people you don't know on Skype?

tfraser

In reply to TommyCarlier

#Apr 5th @ 11:54 PM

I've never used Skype. Does it allow people you don't know to contact you?

Ion Todirel
buuu

In reply to tfraser

#Apr 5th @ 11:56 PM

why don't you google that? Smiley

tfraser

In reply to Ion Todirel

#Apr 6th @ 2:27 AM

Yeah, I did. I had thought that Skype contacts work like traditional IM contacts, but since that isn't necessarily the case I guess this screenshot could be legitimate after all.

AndyC

In reply to tfraser

#Apr 6th @ 3:34 AM

Even Live Messenger allows you to recieve messages from random strangers. That was even the default setting once upon a time. It may well still be, I haven't had to worry about it for ages.

Ion Todirel
buuu

In reply to AndyC

#Apr 6th @ 4:01 AM

with Skype you won't receive messages from people you don't have in your contacts list if your state is not "Online", meaning if your state is "Away" or "Do Not Disturb" people outside your contacts list won't be able to contact you

Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

In reply to Sven Groot

#Apr 5th @ 6:51 PM

Well, I don't know what my ISP is doing. I have my own mail server here. The software does support adding that to the subject line, but I prefer bouncing them back if I get a certain treshold of pattern matches or an XBL match. I hope my ISP doesn't filter whatever is going through my wires to add a "spam" to the subject line, that would be awful.