Incredibly stupid spam...
Dec. 17th, 2005 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyMostly archived here for my own amusement, although feel free to read it through and laugh along with me...
From: [moron's username]@aol.com
Reply-To: roadhog594@*****.net
To: denny@*****.com
Subject: The world's first serious alternative to email
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:29:12 -0500 (21:29 GMT)
Hi ,
The world's first serious alternative to email is creating the opportunity of a lifetime!
Think about this:
NewNetMail is going to be HUGE.
"common sense" facts:
* Email is the single most important component of the Internet. Hundreds of millions of people rely on it as their primary means of communication.
* Email is a broken system (spam, viruses, etc).
* Every day tens of thousands of computers and business networks are destroyed by viruses that spread through email.
* Up to 70% of email traffic on the Internet is SPAM and unsolicited email that overloads Inboxes and clogs the Internet backbones.
* Identity theft because of insecure email and deceptive "phishing" scams via email is a major and growing problem.
Now consider this
* People spend a small fortune to protect their computers from viruses spread by email. Anti-virus companies like Norton, McAfee and others charge individuals and companies by the year to provide protection against viruses.
* A whole industry has been created to fight SPAM. Private spam-filtering is big business and they only scratch the surface in preventing SPAM.
* In spite of a huge media push to inform the public about the danger of identity theft, the scam artists continue to steal millions of dollars from the bank accounts and credit cards of unlucky victims every day.
Put all of this together...
* It is impossible for an email virus to spread through NewNetMail.
* Since no one can send you a letter through NewNetMail without your explicit permission, you will never receive Spam in your NewNetMail Inbox
* Since NewNetMail prevents anyone from pretending to be someone else in a letter, there can be no "phishing" letters attempting to defraud you.
* With NewNetMail, ALL letters are SSL encrypted while traveling over the Internet making it impossible for a hacker to intercept and read your letter.
* In ONE PLACE and for ONE small annual fee, NewNetMail has solved these problems for its users!
Conclusion...
Millions of people all over the world are going to switch to NewNetMail as their primary Internet Correspondence tool. It just makes common sense to go to a system where the problems of email do not exist instead of continuing to fight the worsening problems in an outdated and sick system.
* NewNetMail web site:
http://[moron's username].newnetmail.com
[SNIP: details of affiliates scheme that no doubt led to this crap turning up in my inbox]
So..... that's HTTPS webmail with explicit whitelisting of From: addresses then?
I'm sure businesses are going to be tripping over themselves trying to sign up to a 'new' communications medium that doesn't allow any new customers to contact them. Good lord.
From: [moron's username]@aol.com
Reply-To: roadhog594@*****.net
To: denny@*****.com
Subject: The world's first serious alternative to email
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:29:12 -0500 (21:29 GMT)
Hi ,
The world's first serious alternative to email is creating the opportunity of a lifetime!
Think about this:
NewNetMail is going to be HUGE.
"common sense" facts:
* Email is the single most important component of the Internet. Hundreds of millions of people rely on it as their primary means of communication.
* Email is a broken system (spam, viruses, etc).
* Every day tens of thousands of computers and business networks are destroyed by viruses that spread through email.
* Up to 70% of email traffic on the Internet is SPAM and unsolicited email that overloads Inboxes and clogs the Internet backbones.
* Identity theft because of insecure email and deceptive "phishing" scams via email is a major and growing problem.
Now consider this
* People spend a small fortune to protect their computers from viruses spread by email. Anti-virus companies like Norton, McAfee and others charge individuals and companies by the year to provide protection against viruses.
* A whole industry has been created to fight SPAM. Private spam-filtering is big business and they only scratch the surface in preventing SPAM.
* In spite of a huge media push to inform the public about the danger of identity theft, the scam artists continue to steal millions of dollars from the bank accounts and credit cards of unlucky victims every day.
Put all of this together...
* It is impossible for an email virus to spread through NewNetMail.
* Since no one can send you a letter through NewNetMail without your explicit permission, you will never receive Spam in your NewNetMail Inbox
* Since NewNetMail prevents anyone from pretending to be someone else in a letter, there can be no "phishing" letters attempting to defraud you.
* With NewNetMail, ALL letters are SSL encrypted while traveling over the Internet making it impossible for a hacker to intercept and read your letter.
* In ONE PLACE and for ONE small annual fee, NewNetMail has solved these problems for its users!
Conclusion...
Millions of people all over the world are going to switch to NewNetMail as their primary Internet Correspondence tool. It just makes common sense to go to a system where the problems of email do not exist instead of continuing to fight the worsening problems in an outdated and sick system.
* NewNetMail web site:
http://[moron's username].newnetmail.com
[SNIP: details of affiliates scheme that no doubt led to this crap turning up in my inbox]
So..... that's HTTPS webmail with explicit whitelisting of From: addresses then?
I'm sure businesses are going to be tripping over themselves trying to sign up to a 'new' communications medium that doesn't allow any new customers to contact them. Good lord.
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Date: 2005-12-17 09:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-17 09:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-17 09:57 pm (UTC)It also amuses me that this system is being hyped as some all new technological solution, when as far as I can figure out it's probably just webmail (running on HTTPS, with the afore-mentioned draconian filtering) :)
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Date: 2005-12-17 11:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-18 08:10 am (UTC)