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Like most people in the mid-twenties, my first email address was through AOL and I have not actually used it since 2002.  I do occasionally check in on it either out of bordeom/curiosity or to open a password retrieving email in which case as soon as I find what I’m looking for I delete everything else. I have not provided that email to anyone in at least 6 maybe even 7 years which is why I am always so surpised at the volume of emails I receive. This is a snap shot of what I saw when I logged in tonight. Oy vey. Does no company actually clean this list?!

1.Some senders delivered mail to my stale inbox EVERY DAY. I’m looking at you Gregory Shoes and GOP US media.

2. Any list I actually signed up for was at least 5 years ago. FIVE YEARS. If a user has not opened, let alone clicked on your email in five years, purge them from your list. And Delias I don’t doubt I signed up for your emails, probably when I was a sophomore in high school because you make pre-teen clothes. A decade later I am not  a viable customer. You can remove me from your list.

3. When an email starts with gibberish such as “dedlekis” spells calls as “Clalls” and contains punctuation like a 13 yr old on Myspace “WEEkendSAleOnline”, 99% of the time its spam.

4. The little certified mail emblem (see blue circle) if an email from Carmax which I definitely did not sign up for. What is the point of a certified sender list if those certified senders still send spam emails?

5. My favorite of all emails is from unknownsender@unknowndomain. Hey AOL how did this one get past your spam filters as legitimate email? And while we are on the subject of spam, how is it you let 893 emails through and only caught one of them as spam? Are you even trying?

More Microsoft bashing.

I’m trying to investigate advertising on Bing.com search for a couple clients,  so I fill out the little more information form online and patiently wait for someone to contact me. This is the little “thanks for contacting us” email I recieved a couple of hours later.

It is from Microsoft to my Outlook on a PC. There is absolutely no excuse for it to look like this!

I love spam emails that feature a South African Lottery, Nigerian Long Lost Uncle, interested ‘buyers’ from across the country and my British cousin who just left me a bunch of money! Occasionally, I’ll respond because I’m intrigued at what they do when someone actually bites. Normally, they’re pretty straight forward in what they’re asking of you (credit card numbers, social security, etc) but I just received this one and I’m totally confused as to what Prisca is asking from me? Is she a mail order bride? 

Greetings from prisca morris,
 
Itis really obvious that this will come to you as a surprise because we have not met before.but I am Prisca Morris by name and i am 32 years of age from South Africa. I am lady with a pure heart and i am also born again Christian.My aim here is to meet a man that will love me and be my loved, then i will do the same thing to him and i will love him with all my heart .
 
I am not here for any game and i am not looking for a player either,so please if you are a player don’t bother to write me back but if you are seriously looking for a serious relationship like i do then lets me know by Writing me to my email and i will write you back with my beautiful picture attach to it so as to know whom you are moving in relationship with .
 
Thank you and i hope to hear from you as soon as possible. I believe we can move from here, & Know that the distance or colour does not matter but the feelings and love we have for each other matters alot in life. I am waiting for your reply to my email.Remember Prisca Morris is my name.Waiting for your email.

God Bless you,

Prisca Morris.

If I were to ever run some sort of internet scamming business I would spend any available funds on a copywriter and a translator.

I posted a $150,000 special edition Mustang on behalf of a client and this is just one of many money laundering email scams I’ve received. On slow days I reply to their emails and see just how riled up I can get them…does anyone believe these things?

Here is the actual email in response to the listing:

From: faithy cole [faithysmart005@yahoo.com]

To: Erin