ClassicCar

I requested a shipping quote from UPS earlier this year. You would not believe the mess thier system is in. I kept getting all kinds of qprices to send stuff all over the place . None of them were mine ! !I finaly did get my quote but not till about 4 wrong ones. They had no explnation how my email address got attatched to other quotes,
Roger

The problem is it "Looks" official. I don't open anything unless I'm sure it's something for me.

Example: This morning I got a msg in my voice mail on my cell phone telling me to press 1 to renew my debit card, press 2 to talk to security. No lead in, nothing to tell me who the hell was calling. I do have a debit card - but I'm pretty sure my bank will not send me a phone msg in the first place and in the 2nd place my debit card has over a year before expiration.
Guess what I did with that one - yep, delete the msg. But how many don't or wouldn't.

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

Tallent R wrote:

You are right to not open anything you are not expecting. I get emails warning me all the time my account at some bank has been frozen . How stupid do thos Nigerian's think people are? I never open them and am not sure how they got my address,
Roger

Unfortunately, for those who know how, it is very easy to obtain your email. Somewhere, sometime you opened an email of some sorts that took your email to a data base accessible to anyone.

An example of this is the email that invites you to take (do??) a survey after which they will send you a free Dell laptop (or some make). Trouble is you will find the survey asking all sorts of questions and requests for info. Hey, free lap top it's worth it, right??? Wrong!!! Even if you retain sanity halfway thru the questionaire they got you - you will soon start receiving emails offering anything from free tarot readings to a trip to Mars. Most of these emails have a senders address starting with info@xxxxxxxxx.

If you send enough of them to your "Block this sender" box they will, if not stop, at least the volume will decrease.

Yeah, I'm Mr. Stupid - I took theisurvey. However, I did it with full knowledge of what I was doing and eyes wide open with the expectation of requests for personal info. I stopped when that started. I had no expections of getting a free lap top - in this day and age there ain't no such thing as a free lunch any more. The lunch is free - you gotta pay high rent for the silverware!!! I did get a lot of info@xxxxxxxx emails offering me tons of stuff, tho. Pain the butt, but the experience and knowing what can happen makes it worth it. I've managed block most of them so the carnage isn't as great as it was.

I always had the thought in my mind, sometime, to set up a dead drop bank account and see if I couldn't get one of them Nigerians to send me the National Treasury of Nigeria, less fees, etc. :woohoo:

BEWARE

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

Sheesh who woulda thought that requesting a FREE one week sample of VIAGRA would get me 3,567 e-mail in my Inbox the first day.

Thats what I get for gettin old..MUHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA