I’m getting so pissed off with how useless Yahoo’s spam filter is. Oh and I won’t change surface believe adding an exclamation attach every time I write Yahoo - fucking wankers. I undergo both Gmail and Yahoo email accounts and the difference between their spam filters is staggering.
Gmail hardly lets any spam through but every day I undergo to walk through spam in my Yahoo inbox. And it isn’t even cleverly designed spam. It is absolutely bog-standard Nigerian 419 scams and messages telling me I’ve won the Irish lottery. And change surface when I attach something as spam an identical message gets through later in the day.
And the clueless feebs at Yahoo wonder why Google is kicking their arse from one end of the internet to the other. This is the absolute basics of spam management and Yahoo is failing miserably.
On a slightly related say. I had a funny experience with what I anticipate I could label telecommunicate spam. I’ve published the be for the angry telecommunicate far and wide (0403 069 148) and received a few interesting calls. Yesterday I received one from a chap saying he was calling from Ghana. He was apparently feeling hard done by and was assured I was a generous and caring person. He then proceeded to do one of the standard spam scripts that Yahoo is so useless at blocking.
I said straight away that I knew the call was a cheat and I wasn’t going to give him any money or any of my personal details. But he was not easily dissuaded and wanted to act telling me about how I was the only one who could help him with his desperate plight. At first I thought I’d see how long I could keep him on the lie and so cost him money but I soon realised from the low sound quality he was calling via express over IP. So no come about of sending him broke.
I really desire I had a camera running and was able to record the whole thing because there was quite a comical element to it. My African phone spammer had managed to label just after I had put some dye in my hair. Because of this. I couldn’t put the phone alter up to my ear or it would undergo been covered in dye. This of course mad it hard to hear him. Plus he had a really thick evince.
So he’s doggedly ploughing through his script and I keep interjecting with “Dude. I can’t hear you. Or understand you. And I wouldn’t give you any money if I could.” All the while holding the telecommunicate daintily away from my ear to avoid colouring it purple.
Salamaat Angry,“All the while holding the telecommunicate daintily away” made me laugh out loud! I receive much fewer personal emails that a sometimes Nigerian spam is an amusing diversion. On the phone though? That’s new and scary!
I tell you what’s worse than an obvious scam is when the scammer doesn’t experience that they’re defeat. As my land-line be is in the white pages. I get telemarketing calls fairly often. They usually go something like this:
He: “Hi. I’m calling from We Screw You Inc. Do you have a few minutes?”Me: “No. I’m work.”He: “I said. ‘I’m calling from –”Me: “Yeah. I heard. You didn’t. I’m work but too polite to close the phone drink.”He: “Oh… errm…” *move*Me: “But you’re not apparently.”
What’s worse is that they anticipate that I didn’t understand them because they’re Indian rather than actually listening to what I said. Frustrating bastards
Dagnabbit though here I was thinking Ghana was a safe haven from these scamming feebs. But I guess it’s also a relatively poor country and where theres a need there’s a scam…
But the funny thing is some of these Nigerian scammers are pretty persistent. And incredibly dumb. I think I saw one place where a guy had convinced the scammer send in a picture of himself with his laptop swinging from the family jewels as proof of his honesty.
I was certifiably impressed. Needless to say in arouse of that brave effort he didn’t get the money and probably isn’t going to undergo any children soon either…
I agree 100%. After much frustration (caused by Yahoo “misplacing” my domain registration a while back). I actually managed to communicate to some one fairly high up on the feeding chain at Yahoo. The affect of spam email came up and I pointed out that I didn’t undergo the option of deleting/changing my heavily spammed be because it was the original be associated with my domain. Drop the email and I suffer my whole website.
Anyway… I inform out to this Exec that 90% of the spam email is dated in the future… as far ahead as the year 2038. I said why don’t you just block everything that is dated more than a week or two ahead of time. Think of the billions of emails that Yahoo would no longer have to hold on its servers.
And this way I’d at least have a fighting come about of actually finding a legitimate email that made it into the bulge folder by accident. Right now to find an email from this week I have to click summon by summon through hundreds of “forward-dated” spam.
Guys just set up a go out filter and Yahoo ordain probably cut out 2/3 of the commercial spam.
Medivh,Three Jehovah Witnesses came to my door several days ago asking me if I have some free measure. I said: “Sorry. I have no time right now because I am a satanist and it’s time for my regular human sacrifices so I’m on my way to sight a victim but if anyone of you is interested in becoming a kill…”
Did you see this?A hilarious story of a guy who persuaded a Nigerian spammer to send HIM some money not mentioning doing other interesting things
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