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Guess that explains why my throw away email was getting a ridiculous amount of spam. Why do people send spam nowadays anyway, is that ever effective? Has a sket

by Mahn 11y ago

Guess that explains why my throw away email was getting a ridiculous amount of spam. Why do people send spam nowadays anyway, is that ever effective? Has a sketchy, poorly worded spam email ever prompted someone to actually buy viagra from them?

griffinmb 11y ago
If Spam Nation is accurate, spam is actually quite lucrative. The knock-off medications they're peddling often work just as well as the real thing and at a fraction of the cost.
- jessaustin 11y ago
  ...work just as well as the real thing... There are a few ways to take this, but this reminds me most of the diet aids that supposedly consisted of tapeworm eggs.
- brbsix 11y ago
  Knock-offs, particularly the sort advertised in spam and shitty foreign web shops, often have no active ingredient. Even generics are "knocked off".
colejohnson66 11y ago
Believe it or not, but a guy came into the grocery store I work at to send a Western Union to a guy in China. He mentioned that his "friend" needed some money to get something out of something and if he helped him, he'd send him some money. The guy bought it and tried to send a few hundred. Lucky for him, the supervisor on WU duty at the time realized it was a scam and told him that his "friend" is lying. After some more persistence on her part, he eventually left.
STRiDEX 11y ago
Mine all have emoji in the subject line. which for some reason gmail animates. It's all in the spam folder, but i still check the spam folder from time to time.
pc86 11y ago
They're poorly worded to intentionally exclude people with reasoning skills (barring some language barrier which probably helps as well).
mathattack 11y ago
When the marginal cost of the message is near-zero, not much reason not to. Sometimes the poor wording is to weed out discerning educated marks. [0] [0] https://www.quora.com/Why-are-email-scams-written-in-broken-English https://www.quora.com/Why-are-email-scams-written-in-broken-...
sp332 11y ago
If the email has bad grammar, people assume the sender must not be very bright. Therefore, they could never successfully scam someone as astute as the recipient. The sucker usually thinks they are taking advantage of the scammer.
amenghra 11y ago
Everyday, there's an unlucky person (https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/)

by Mahn 11y ago

griffinmb 11y ago

If Spam Nation is accurate, spam is actually quite lucrative. The knock-off medications they're peddling often work just as well as the real thing and at a fraction of the cost.

jessaustin 11y ago
...work just as well as the real thing... There are a few ways to take this, but this reminds me most of the diet aids that supposedly consisted of tapeworm eggs.
brbsix 11y ago
Knock-offs, particularly the sort advertised in spam and shitty foreign web shops, often have no active ingredient. Even generics are "knocked off".

colejohnson66 11y ago

Believe it or not, but a guy came into the grocery store I work at to send a Western Union to a guy in China. He mentioned that his "friend" needed some money to get something out of something and if he helped him, he'd send him some money. The guy bought it and tried to send a few hundred. Lucky for him, the supervisor on WU duty at the time realized it was a scam and told him that his "friend" is lying. After some more persistence on her part, he eventually left.

STRiDEX 11y ago

Mine all have emoji in the subject line. which for some reason gmail animates. It's all in the spam folder, but i still check the spam folder from time to time.

pc86 11y ago

They're poorly worded to intentionally exclude people with reasoning skills (barring some language barrier which probably helps as well).

mathattack 11y ago

When the marginal cost of the message is near-zero, not much reason not to. Sometimes the poor wording is to weed out discerning educated marks. [0] [0] https://www.quora.com/Why-are-email-scams-written-in-broken-English https://www.quora.com/Why-are-email-scams-written-in-broken-...

sp332 11y ago

If the email has bad grammar, people assume the sender must not be very bright. Therefore, they could never successfully scam someone as astute as the recipient. The sucker usually thinks they are taking advantage of the scammer.

amenghra 11y ago

Everyday, there's an unlucky person (https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/)