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I think James is doing really well and gives people a lot of fun. But on the other hand - he said he is just wasting their time, but he wastes his time as well.
Well, spam is legal because the size of Internet is so big that no one could ever verify every e-mail. On the other hand you could ask why talking with people is legal - someone might deceive you as well. Those things happen and we can't do anything.
Sometime ago I was so fed up with spam that I needed to change my mail. Now I use gmail as my personal mail and I don't need to deal with spam anymore.
He should talk more about danger which comes with spam emails and how to protect ourselfs from them or which email providers are trustworthy.
2. It's form of advertisement. Goverments cannot cotroll all of the methods used by companies but fraud emails are illegal.
3. I have no problem with spam because all spam emails I've received are in spam folder.
James Veitch is excellent. As a way of collecting stand-up material James' way of dealing with spam worked well but in general I believe replying to spam emails for laughs is not worth our time and the risk. Even if you anonymize yourself, you may become a target. The emails that look like plain text may turn out to include strange compression formats or encrypted files. It may not be as dangerous in GMail as it is, for example, in Outlook which has had a number of preview pane exploits, but still one should be cautious.
To the best of my knowledge it is not legal to send spam in Poland, but there is an issue with what constitutes spam. It is also not worth to sue and prosecute the spammers, because the penalties are not very high.
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A while back I had a problem with spam. I've got like 10-20 email a day. I tried to use filters but didn't work as well as i would like to. Thus I just abandoned that email box and created new one and tried to use it carefully.
1. I love his way to deal with spam, I did the same a few years ago. Now I just don't have the time anymore. As he said, wasting their time on a person that is aware is good, because they will not scam a person unaware of that in the meantime.
2. Junk e-mail is not legal, at least in the most European countries, as it is usually considered as harassment. It is usually very hard to track until it actually becomes a fraud and that is why it is so hard to stop. Of course, the frauds are not using legitimate e-mail accounts nor bank accounts, and route both their data and money through many nodes of their system. making tracking very hard. So even though it is not legal, this is the reason why it exists - it is very hard to actually suppress.
3. I do get a lot of spam, but that does not mean I have a problem with it. I have a few ways to dealing with it, the main one is mail hierarchy. That means I have many e-mail accounts that I use for different, more and less important stuff. I have a main personal account, solely for contacting trusted people. Second one is for trusted and important websites registration. Third is university e-mail for studies. Fourth is only for syncing data on mobile devices. Separate accounts for portals where I have to use a credit card, which I do not use for any kind of mailing. Then, there are a few accounts in worse portals used solely for registering on less important portals and are collecting some spam. I never check them, unless I want to verify a registration. Then, for all the non-important registrations I use portals such as 10 minute e-mail which are just temporary accounts that prevent from getting lots of spam. To sum it up, I know it is inevitable to get spam, but I can manage it, preventing getting any spam on my most important accounts by not registering these accounts anywhere. All the spam goes to mail account that are not important, so I can just ignore them :)
I think that`s because it is very easy to create new e-mail account and so no one will really check the content of e-mails and so we still receive them on our e-mail accounts.
I don`t have problem with spam because I always try not to subsribe to different useless news sendings and everyday i try to filter my mailbox.
Ok, it is not legal when you do it as a phishing. But what about mails that tells you about some great weight lose pills? Or mails that are not dangerous, but only unwanted? Of course for us IT girls and guys it's easy to handle with it, but if someone is not very familiar with computer science, it may be unpleasant.
Having multiple email accounts and using websites like "10 minutes mail" is probably the best way to deal with spam. That's what you and I do and what everybody should do.
To be serious, sometimes it's hard to say what exactly is spam. Of course all that newsletter stuff is 100%, but as we know not everything that is legal is ethically good at the same time.
I've never replied to a spam literally and I do not think we should do it. If someone have too much free time, it is possibly to troll like James did.
I don't have any problems with spammers. Maybe I am just smart enough to not leave my e-mail everywhere I see.
It might work when you are fighting some poor manually-sent mails (i.e. when someone is manually sending newsletters or ads through BCC: or some mailing list), but not against spambots, which blindly copy-paste the same message.
>Why are junk messages legal, even though it sometimes may be a fraud?
Well, these messages are NOT legal in Poland (Art. 172 of Ustawa Prawo telekomunikacyjne) - you must have permission to send marketing mail to your recipients. Few years ago, that legal act had lighter terms of SPAM, which many companies had abused (usually, their line of defense was that "they got your email from public place, such as website" etc.), but now you need explicit permission from the end-user (basically anyone connected to network is end-user). It seems to be working, but as always you have to cut through some red-tape, to actually make the spammer pay for it, but its possible.
In the USA, they have the CAN-SPAM act, which was poorly written, thus allowing sending unsolicited mail, IF you add an opt-out option somewhere in the message, so they basically brought this onto themselves. Also, SPAM messages are usually frauds, unless you are willing to buy 100 tonnes of viagra, or you win an iPad each time you visit a website...
I don't have problem with SPAM- Gmail might be reading your mails and spying on you :3, but it works flawlessly with filtering spam mails, although there are plenty of tools to fight it (blacklists, Bayesian spam filters etc.). Also unchecking any boxes during registration on website helps a lot :3
I think it is great... make someone else angry as much as they make us with junk mail. It is a terrible time waster and lot of effort for IT Administrators ha to be put in to filter all that junk.
Why are junk messages legal, even though it sometimes may be a fraud?
Really do not know. Western Union made a lot of people in Nigeria easy to fraud and the police is lost at any case. Look that even on Ebay there are lot of signs - NO SCAM, I do not send anything to Nigeria. I had similiar case last week when I sold my phone on Allegro (worth about 300 zł). Someone wrote me about the price and after my reply I received that e-mail:
Thanks for the mail.i want you to end the auction for me on allegro because i have problem with my allegro..i cant bid or buy now.i am ready to pay you the commission for allegro and shipment fee.i will deposit 500pln + 200pln shipment fee with EMS POCZTEX is South Africa.i need you to mail me your full banking details for the deposit as
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Do you have a problem with spam? How do you deal with with it?
Gmail and outlook.com are dealing with SPAM quite well. But if you use something like tlen.pl or wp.pl as your e-mail host you will have to delete lot of it.
You, like most people there, are using Gmail, which is very good solution for not having spam. If you are not using it, use "10/20 minutes mail" for sites that you are not likely to use in future.
It's a shame that nowadays we don't receive funny spam emails like this. If it's spam, it's generated by robots, there are links and that's all. Nothing special. Google Mail does a good job.
But spam as newsletters is annoying. I hate it when I have to register on sites and it automatically adds me to the newsletter list. And then I have to unsubscribe, otherwise, my mail will be full of trash.
Your situation from Allegro is quite disturbing for me. This time there were no bigger consequences, because their target was you, young person that is familiar with IT and which was able to say that this is fraud. Now let's think what can happen if next time their potential victim will be someone older or much younger than us?
Discussion below this video has clearly shown that Gmail is one of the best tool to use to deal with spam.
It's great to hear that you don't have problem with spam. Hope that it won't change in future.
I agree that newsletters are annoying. Sad thing is that sometimes you must accept rules of some internet store to purchase something and those rules most the time consist of newsletter acceptance.
I don't have a problem with spam, I deal with it having multiple "trash" email accounts. If I need to create an account on a site or service which I don't trust that it will not share my email details I just use one of those accounts and forget about it.
Nowadays there is no need to have as you called "trash" emails account - you can use sites like "10/20 minutes mail".
BTW: The funniest thing is when you scam a scammer and ask them for their personal data to confirm that they are legitimate. Once a guy has sent me his picture and a name and I found him on facebook - he bragged about scamming people in one of his posts. Fun stuff.
Using multiple mail accounts is a good and very often used strategy. It's sad that there are a lot of people that are victims of frauds like discussed one. Hope it will change in future.
I think that for me junk messages are not really dangerous because I am concious that we can find a milions of scams on internet and I don't believe in very attractive offerts. On the other hand I know that internet is used by different people - sometimes they don't have knowledge and it is easy to make of their innocence.
I don't have a problem with a SPAM because I use a Gmail and they protect their users from SPAM...of course except SPAM from companies which don't pay Google for adverts.
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or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dceyy0cX6J4.
I don't agree that spam is not dangerous. Of course if you are spammed by McDonald or MediaMarkt it will not harm you, but still there is a lot of junk messages than can be frauds or that can include some computer malware.
After today's conservation we should create new hashtag called "Gmail master race", that's how popular it is.
2. I guess they are not legal, but they are hard to detect and then fight as you can create as many email accounts as you wish.
3. As I am using gmail spam messages are not an issue for me and I recommend it.