Damn spammers, trying to wreck my marriage

Last night my wife went online to send a mail, when she open outlook there was a message from gina somebody in caps HEY REMEMBER ME. So, she says: "what's this"
me: "I don't know"
wife: " who's gina"
me: "hell, I don't know, it's spam. I get two hundred a day"
wife giving me the evil eyeball: "you don't know gina?"
me: "no.. I don't know who gina is, I've never known any gina's in my life"
She gave me evil looks all night, and all morning until she left, mostly because I wouldn't let her open that damn spam, knowing that if she did I'd get three hundred a day instead of two hundred. Now, it looks like the next time someone spams me like that I'll have to prove that I don't know who the hell it is,by letting her open it and spend more time than I want just getting shut of the crap.
Damn spammers.

disconnect your computer from the internet, open it, then shwo your wife, erase it, clean out your cache, you'll be fine.

but I decided that opening the email, proving it was spam and dealing with more spam was the best option I had available.

It really turned into a no-win situation.

One of the advertisements in our local paper (Westword) came in the form of a fake coctail napkin. On one side was a bunch of girl's names and phone numbers. On the other side was the product itself (I think it was Bud Light). The idea was that if you drink bud light, you get a bunch of girl's names and phone numbers. I guess.

Anyway, it had fallen out of the loosely designed Westword and into the back seat of the car. Where my (now ex-) wife found it. She was mad for weeks, probably still mad to this day (5 years and a divorce has happened since that incident). She would not believe me, even when I showed her the same pre-printed napkins in other Westwords.

Sheesh!

She'll put this in her gunny sack, and one day out of the blue out will pop gina.

After all, by now you should be enjoying free cable, greatly improved gas mileage, and a huge penis.

Nothing worse than having to defend yourself from something you did not do to someone who won't believe you.

i read a spam e-mail that was sent to my bf. I didn't know it was spam when i read it though. The subject line read something like "Hi, it's Jennifer," and the message was so raw I can't even repeat it. But my bf admitted to it being a porn spam mail which it was.

Even funnier was that he tried to claim that most people get porn spam mail once they enter their e-mail addresses on any site. That might be true but he probably entered his address on a porn web site.

I've never been to or submitted anything to a porn site, and I get 20 porn spams a day.

porn spam that gives you a password that you supposedly requested to view their site? He's gotten that before. I'm sure he views porn but it's all good I don't really care.

I won't say he doesn't enjoy the porn, he very well might, but it's highly doubtful that these emails are anything but spam.

My woes started because I had this email address on a web site. As soon as you put an email address on the web, the spiders hit it, and they spam it bad. I get every porn email imaginable, passwords (which are probably scams to get your CC number), sites, along with some really sick stuff. And really, I've never gone to a porn site, and certainly never signed up for one.

give him the benefit of the doubt. :)

Posting my email on a microsoft newsgroup having to do with Microsoft Exchange.

I had to close the account.

and the list gets sold and bingo spam city for everything under the sun.

the spiders hit the newsgroups, particularly the microsoft newsgroups, hard. I use a fake account for posting to them now, an email account I don't open - at hotmail!

A good example is if a particular email address is published anywhere on the internet. Email harvesting programs scour the web looking for email links to send garbage to. I had this happen with a Lycos email I have published (this address exclusively serves a business). Never published anywhere else. I clean out 10-20 emails a day hawking Vicodin and Viagra, as well as porn.

If he published his email on a web site, chances are it got harvested by porn spammers.

Even when you only divulge your email address to organisations you consider trustworthy, they will often share your email address with other organisations they deem trustworthy business partners, etc.

Eventually, the list of email addresses gets to somebody who sells it to spammers, and then you start getting porn spam.

This has happened to me. I use my Yahoo account for signing up for things online, and for e-commerce. My main ISP account is private, and is not published. The Yahoo box is primarily for collecting spam (currently up to 100+ pieces per day), since they are pretty good at filtering (most goes into the Bulk Folder automatically, and I just delete with one button). I don't care how much crap I get there, jsut as long as I get in there often enough to clean it out.

But my gf got the shock of her life when she went into my Yahoo box, and wondered what all the porn was about. I told her for the millionth time that it was my 'spam box'. It collects the garbage and keeps it away from my other accounts. She still didn't get it.

Gina here - I'll use the OTHER email address next time. Sorry
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