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Thought I would check my old yahoo account to see if I won anything, after reading about thescruffs good fortune winning £5M at random :lol:

So far this week ....

I got UPS saying the parcel I sent today could not be delivered :scratch: - what parcel :lol: - and sent me an .exe file to run - yeah, right :roll:

"Your credit card has been charged for $622.39." by Midwest airlines and they sent me a receipt which my virus checker found a trojan in - amazing :roll:

My Fees for Braemarhomes :scratch: were sent in a zip file - very carelessly, they let a virus loose in that zip file :roll:

And another parcel I sent via fedex :scratch: got lost and the tracking note they sent has a virus in :roll: very careless, these companies :lol:

Who on earth falls for this kind of b*llocks???

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Unfortunately loads do.

Mostly newbies, beginners, kids, and silly users that don't think or know better.

My grandsons computer was playing up.

I found 47 viruses.

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I had one from Nationwide Bank, although the real thing is actually a building society!

In Operamail you can refer spam direct to the abuse team by clicking a button.

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I keep getting an e-mail that says I'm downloading inappropriate stuff online. Trouble is they can't spell! :lol:

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I get about 200-400 emails daily.

Many are scams from banks etc, which I do not even bank with :?

Many of the others are selling fake replica watches, or claiming to!

I was once checking my web based emails at a friends and a email came through for rolex watches, she wanted to see the site and so I clicked on the picture- it took me to a beastiality site :oops: :oops: :oops:

I also get lots of emails for viagra and penis enlargement, how do they know I have a small penis and problems raising one :lol:

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I get those as well - which part of the name Tina sounds male I ask ya?!

I forward them to my fella ;)

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alot of people fall for these scams; there is no limit to stupidity coupled with greed.


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A few few months back a local guy from Radstock, was jailed for running a computer scam, apparently there was 3-4 of them involved and they made around 3million, an estimate so could have been a lot more or less, but they were unable to trace most of it. :roll:

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I've just had a spam advertising the "Ultimate male package", that'd be a full set of Ryobi or Makita then? :wink:

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I've just had a spam advertising the "Ultimate male package", that'd be a full set of Ryobi or Makita then? :wink:


90% of my spam is for penis extensions and viagra :cb

If anyone can tell a 65 year old dinosaur why he would want either it would be appreciated.

On the other hand, if someone was to invent a tool, for finding it in the dark, it could be put to good use :lol: perhaps.

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90% of my spam is for penis extensions and viagra :cb

If anyone can tell a 65 year old dinosaur why he would want either it would be appreciated.


Shove the Viagra up your bum Scruff, it'll stiffen everything up & stop those "morning problems".

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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On the other hand, if someone was to invent a tool, for finding it in the dark, it could be put to good use :lol: perhaps.

Depends what "It" is. :? What about a head torch?



A metal piercing and magnet by the bed would work if your memory is that bad. :lol:

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You mean one of them super magnets hanging from the ceiling. :lol:

It would certainly get it pointing the right way :thumbright:

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:thumbright: Cheap too! I wouldn't like to be the paramedics having to free a screaming man from the ceiling because he was being clever, using a high powered magnet! :wink: Never had that problem, so can't comment. :lol:

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