Unbelievable! I Got A Spam Message At A Most Unlikely Place
By pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
February 20, 2010 6:20pm CST
Okay we all know how one gets those annoying spam/scam type messages in our emails. You know the kind, the ones that say you inherited a zillion dollars, or a person wants to make you a beneficiary of a lot of money cause they are dying of cancer and have no relatives, you won the MSN or Yahoo lotto, and on and on. The most ludicrous spam/scam message to me was that I could claim millions of dollars and was supposedly from the FBI (yeah, right).
Anyway, one can expect these scam type messages in our emails, but have you ever gotten a spam/scam message in a very unlikely place? Well folks got one today, and it was a message on my Daily OM website that I've belonged to for a long time. For those of you not familiar with Daily OM, it sounds exactly that, sort of a meditative, spiritual website for inspiration, one can listen to meditative kind of music and so forth. So here's this message to me and the woman is doing her heart and strings message how I can inherit millions of dollars since she has no relatives, she was informed she only has three months to live and to call her lawyer to make the transfer to me (the phone number is one for Ghana). I emailed Daily OM, with a copy of this bogus message and a link to the person's profile...she ONLY made her profile today, and no real info but states she's from Ghana.
The point of all this is that really, I thought Daily Om was a decent site and one wouldn't expect this garbage. So have any of you gotten a scam/spam message from a most unlikely source? I've even gotten hit with bogus messages at a Pet oriented type site from women wanting to "hit" on me, like duh? Yo? I'm not interested in a female relationship thank you very much.
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17 responses
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
21 Feb 10
Unfortunately people have learn how to hacked any site or any email account and send those ugly spam messages. On top of it, when speaking about an email account, I have so many emails in my account daily, I can miss the one I want to read.
I have to go to my email and start unsubscribe from many places, so I can keep only private messages. And again, I may create new email only for my friends and family.
Second option, maybe I can have separate, garbage email for all sites I am joining...
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
21 Feb 10
I too have a garbage e-mail I use for freebie and other places that require an e-mail adde that way they get an adde and I don't get my valued messages burried under junk.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
21 Feb 10
I might do the same thing, as I actually have a number of email addresses but maybe should use one of them that I hardly ever use and use that for signing up for sites, just in cased I get spammed.
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@GardenGerty (161010)
• United States
21 Feb 10
I think I need to do this as well. I am suddenly on a lot of sites.
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@celticeagle (168543)
• Boise, Idaho
21 Feb 10
I have gotten all these you mentioned too. I like AOL because they are really good about filtering spam. I have gotten these kind you speak of too. Daily Om? Never heard of it. You are going to get these time scam/spam things anywhere and everywhere. Life online.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
22 Feb 10
I was really surprised to get such an email/message there though--first time in three years
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Feb 10
No this wasn't a spam/scam email in my emails, but a PM on another site, Daily OM
@celticeagle (168543)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Feb 10
Mine all goes in my spam file and I delete it. They must have gotten your info from some place and started sending you stuff again because of that.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
22 Feb 10
Yeah I get my fair share of spam/scammers in my regular emails too
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
24 Feb 10
somebody else was telling me they got "FBI" spam..thea,i think.
just about any site is spammable nowadays.
you know that art site i was telling you about awhile back?
people spam right on your photo seller pages.that is so rude.thank god i can delete it.
i've been getting ones lately supposedly from myspace emails.i can't figure that one out,i'm not on myspace LOL
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
24 Feb 10
oh yea.yahoo's notorious for that.especially their chat.
"wanna see my webcam?"uh..no.. LOL
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
21 Feb 10
I got a spam from Amazon. com and that was a surprise. I think these people are "piggy-backing" on the site somehow.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Feb 10
I got a spam/scammer once via Ebay--it was the one and only time I was trying to sell something there. Well this email indicated he was interested in my item and wanted me to send it directly to a cousin in Russia (huh?) It went on to say a money transaction would be made via Western Union..yeah, sure--once I see anything mentioned about Western Union I know it's bogus
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
23 Feb 10
This is that I won something and I didn't even enter anything.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Feb 10
LOL--not sure but I think I do have your email...my email had been hacked and don't ask how many people were asking me, "did you send this?" Whoever it was, was promoting a laptop that I supposedly got...nope not me
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Feb 10
Yes I got an email back from Daily Om since I reported the spam PM...they have removed the person off the site...but most likely will come back as someone else, since these spammers don't give up--but I set my PM to friends only so shouldn't get anymore
@Aurone (4755)
• United States
22 Feb 10
I guess those spam messages can come from anywhere. Don't believe I have ever had one like that though. I get a lot of male oriented spam because my user name and my email address are both male inspired names. Its funny. I do a lot of deleting in my email box.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Feb 10
I don't think it really matters about one's name though...I get those Viagra emails all the time and my real first name is definitely female
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
22 Feb 10
I’ve received spam on other websites too and it is always some female that would like ‘to get to know me better’ what are those? What kind of scam is it? They obviously want access to my information but you would think that a guy would be trying to hit on me, not a girl! My sister receives those kinds of emails regularly too. It is so intrusive when they appear to be following you around when you are in other places too!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Feb 10
LOL--I've gotten those types of PMs/emails too, I once got three where women wanted a relationship with me and it was on a pet-related site...then not long after I posted this discussion I got an alert from Lulu which is a self=publishing site of a PM for me, and yup sure enough a woman wanting to get to know me
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@harmonee (1228)
• United States
21 Feb 10
Don't you just love being blind-sided? Last night, I got a text message, except it wasn't really a text, it was Spam. I was a little shocked. I don't know how this company got my number and I'm on the "Do not call" list. Maybe this is the loop hole around it. Seems like everyone is selling out now a days and doing anything to make a buck.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Feb 10
I have had the same problem too, that is some kind of weird text on my cell phone...very few people know my number and I have the Do Not Call thing also
@kaylachan (71996)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
21 Feb 10
Well I've been lucky enough that my e-mail was the only place. Though I will read those messages and laugh at them. But, that's why I often ignore the privite messages provided by some websites. Too many people wanting to make a sale if you ask me. I bet it sounds crul, but I laugh at those.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Feb 10
That's why I'm sometimes cautious about adding friends here, especially if I look at their profile and see nothing but how to make money banners and their discussions are nothing but making money...in the past I've accepted people as friends and within minutes they are PMing me with their referral links
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Feb 10
They must be desperate when they start using PMs on sites to scam/spam people though
@torresclaudia (17)
• United States
21 Feb 10
wow they are coming up with alot of ways to trick people. good thing you reported it and yeah they are dum
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Feb 10
Yeah I did decide to report the spammer, so hopefully won't get anymore spams from the person
@GardenGerty (161010)
• United States
21 Feb 10
Every site I have ever signed up on has managed to let someone spam me. I am never surprised. It is a shame. They must be having some success or they would not be doing this. I hope that the site does something to increase security within its ranks from this kind of stuff.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
22 Feb 10
It's weird that I got spammed at this particular site as I've belonged to it for a long time, so this was a first
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
21 Feb 10
Any site that has a forum seems to be vulnerable to such things. Yeah I get that spam of mature nature plenty too. Right up there w/ my erectile difficulties *LOL* I don't think they know the gender of whom they are spamming but figure if they can get the right sucker or lonely man to respond to their oh so tempting offer they've made a few fraudulant $. Too bad for them I'm a lil smarter than that & I'm married.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
21 Feb 10
I get Viagra spam mails all the time and you're right they don't check whom they are sending to, since my name is a very obviously female name
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
21 Feb 10
I got one of those once. She also said she was from Ghana. She enclosed a picture of a really pretty woman. Nothing nasty, just a nice portrait. The site I got it on only had several hundred members, so it wasn't really careful about who could email whom. Needless to say they changed that after this woman, man? emailed a dozen or so of us with this scam.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
21 Feb 10
so many of these spam emails seem to be either from Ghana or Nigeria--you would think by now people are up on these spammers from these countries and they would give up all ready.
