Anyone have any idea why so many offers for watches?

from JoeUser Forums

Lately one of my e-mail inboxes has been getting flooded with s-p-a-m, and I'm not talking about the kind that comes in cans and smells like, well, pet food.

Most of the stuff is your usual crap-tastic 'add 1nches' or 'pl3asure her' or similar stuff.  Very obvious and easy to spot in the inbox as absolute junk.

There's also the offers for various types of natural enhancement, items with medicinal properties, etc.  Again, obviously junk.

But then there have been offer after offer pertaining to 'luxury watches' and 'replica watches' mixed in what crap and the crap where people want me to view the latest videos that haven't even hit MTV yet, or accept some e-Card that is supposed to wish me well (while it wipes out my computer or installs some trojan crap to grab passwords and possibly install worms and other crap on my PC).

I don't get the allure of any of the above, but I really wonder what is with the push for these watches.  Does someone out there know I'm a clock watcher?  Are they too stupid to also know I have cheap Casio wrist watches at my disposal from the closest K-Mart or Wally World?  Do they not know that I can see the time in the Windows Notification area?!?  That Outlook will remind me what the time and date are and what appointment I'm due for?

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Forgive the rant above, but I swear I kind of liked it better when the spam was offering me the opportunity to see --insert Hawt female celebrity name here-- neked!  At least then there was the promise of some sort of payoff that might be of interest to me. :big-wide-evil-grin:
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I get grass seed spam...very weird.  
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I am waiting for the first email that offers cut price cans of Spam - then I'll know the world really has gone nuts   
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I want some spam that promises to electrocute anybody that ever tries to send me spam again.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

I get grass seed spam...very weird.

Maui Wowie or Zoysia?

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I keep getting spam offering "FREE LASER EYE TREATMENTS" who are they kidding one of my eyes are plastic and the other is dead! By the way before anyone asks I use special software.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I get grass seed spam...very weird.


Damn IR...I thought I sent that to someone else!
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

So, what time is it?

  

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
So, what time is it?


Time to get a new email account.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Grass seed spam and I have no lawn.  
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Do what I did.

Get a gmail account (the best spam filters bar none right now).
Have it bring in your email from your other address.
Enable pop access in gmail.
Use your favorite mail program for spam free access to both accounts via gmail pop.

I hope this helps.

:}

PS the reason you are getting Watch spam is that the world has come to realize that (like diamonds, penis enlargement scams, fake viagra, and penny stocks) watches have no value anymore. First watchmakers tried to go the "diamond" route making luxury watches. Fortunately only a few of the very rich were stupid enough to buy into $10,000 watches. Now they are going the spam route.

Watches are, by the very definition of the word, anachronistic.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Anyone have any idea why so many offers for watches?


Might be because AT&T are phasing out the 'time' service on its US phone network....or there again, maybe somebody's got a shipload of hot watches they wanna offload before the cops turn up.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I get all kinds of Spam in one E-mail
and none in the other one

But don't you just like how MSN now has the MSN featured (spam) that you can never put as junk it always goes to your inbox

i get
she is looking for you
(I don't even go to the dating sites)
work at home and make $5,000 part time
( ? )
you have and e-card
(who the Hell is this person)
re-mortgage your home now
(I rent an apartment)
we need secret shoppers
(you don't need me)
we need your bank of America info we are updating our system
(Sent that to Bank of America)
buy a new car
(If I want to buy a new car would not do it on line)
we need Project Managers in your area
(then hire someone put an add in the Sunday paper)
You just won $1,000,000.00
(Good then call my lawyer)



you know this is way we have to have instructions on simple stuff we buy. because their are / is stupid people out their that fall for this stuff... you know if your too stupid to know that coffee is HOT then your one of those people that should not buy Coffee OR reproduce.. lol





Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's because spammers know they're running out of time?
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
we need secret shoppers
(you don't need me)


Ah, can't keep a secret, eh!!! So you the dirty stool pigeon who ratted out on me for trying to sell ya the Sydney Harbour Bridge????? Wise guy, eh

****think Curly, Three Stooges****

I never get 'em in my Hotmail, but the missus occasionally gets spam emails in her Yahoo account....and would you believe it, dozens of 'em for cheap, nasty watches...not mention penis enlargement devices and Viagra.

Told her to order some so it wouldn't be traced back to me, but she reminded me we're on the same IP address and it don't work like that. Shoot!!

Oh, and let's not forget the Nigerian money scammers!! She still gets those as well, purporting to be servicemen in Iraq or Afghanistan trying to unload national treasures and/or funds....

.....Or the "my father was murdered by rebels and leaved me a billion US dollar I need to get out of Africa. She's still waiting on the 6 mill to hit her account.
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
My spam filter at Lycos Mail works well--sometimes too well--so I have to go through the messages in the spam box in case there is a slip. There have been a few, so I suppose it's how you word a mail. My sister owns a company so she always delegated to spam. It can be tedious.

I get at least 2 Nigerian 419s a week and hundreds on penis enlargement. Also get watches and offers for seats on Airlines.Personally, I think spammers are pathetic--how many results do they get? As the World gets wiser and deleting spam more common, how many hits do you think these guys get? Do you think it'll die out eventually?
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
You have been a bit dusty lately, LW.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Woo woo!!! Free money from email!

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-sigh-
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Careful. You posted a real link. Someone might click it.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
More power to them in claiming my money. 
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wonder if that enlargement stuff really works   













  

I have no lawn.

I have 1.5 acres of unmowed you can park a camper on cheap. ( No seed required )
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Anyone have any idea why so many offers for watches?


... well you know what they say, you can never have enough "time" on your hands....

OK, that was cheap but like most bad jokes, I couldn't resist....   


- sorry back to the discussion as it was...
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wonder if that enlargement stuff really works


It definitely works.... oops, my inner monologue became my outer monologue again   ,
sorry for the interruption, back to the discussion as it was...