Guest Posted October 22, 2005 Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 You owe my old dementia ridden father a $100 you #*#* f$$k. :onfire: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 Have you got the one telling you that you have won a fortune in the British lottery ... only the spelling in the letter is North American, not English? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Flashermac said:Have you got the one telling you that you have won a fortune in the British lottery ... only the spelling in the letter is North American, not English? No doubt I have along with 200+ other spams a day. I always laff at the ads for buying perscription drugs on line, and the subject line spells whatever they are touting incorrectly. really makes you want to buy something dangerous from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
journey21 Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Spam filters look for the correct spelling of the drugs, the incorrect spellings are an attempt to get the message through the filter and onto your computer...they get through on my computer. However, it does make you think twice before even considering purchasing anything from the.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Hi, "they get through on my computer" Try POPFile, mine is running at 98.5% accuracy. Hardly ever even bother checking the spam, just delete it. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 I tryed the spam filter(S) on my email software ( eudora) and that my isp uses ( sbcyahoo) did not take long for me to find out is was filtering out ligit messages from my customers also. so now I am back to filtering all my email myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Something to spend your free time on: http://www.419fun.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlton68 Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Got such a scam mail today. Had a lough and deleted it right away. Pasathai, I also find that it's easier to delete spam and scams manually than to filter legit mails from the spam folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Hi, "did not take long for me to find out is was filtering out ligit messages from my customers also." I have to worry about this as well, but have no such problems with POPFile. It needs to 'learn' for a few weeks first, but then becomes very powerful & accurate. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 The junk mail filters used by Thunderbird work in this way as well, adaptive learning. Very very good! Cheers, SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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