I wonder if the targeting is regional. Here, in Southern California, the viagra and penis-enlargement stuff stopped about 6 - 9 months ago. Lately the problem is home refinancing offers from companies no one has ever heard of and insane work from home stuff.

Hi Marc,
Maybe they just make the rounds of different ISP’s around the globe.
Ron

Although I only get this stuff via gmail, I was always under the impression that the content was related to the type of websites that you visit…..

Hi Goose,
This was the case way back when. Now the bots have become so sophisticated that they can attack at will.
Ron

I use sbcglobal, which was great until the offical takeover by at&t. I had to change my incoming and outgoing mailservers to reflect att.com instead of pop.yahoo or whatever it was.
Since then I was getting lots of spams mortgages, but now it has turned to football and nfl. It actually kind of scares me, because I am a realtor, so I visit alot of real estate and mortgage related websites. Also I am a huge football fan, and visit football related sites now.
The scariest thing though, is that I sent an email to my friends and family about a week ago, with the subject “are you ready for some football”; and in the last week, I have gotten 3 or 4 spam emails with the same subject line. Do you think its coincidence, or is big brother really watching?

Any comments are appreciated!

Hi Sandra,
Though I don’t know for sure whether it is coincidental or not, since the slogan ‘are you ready for some football’ was a ABC Monday night slogan for quite awhile, emails do sometimes come back to us in undesirable ways.

Sending email to family and friends using only the TO: and CC: sometimes get forward beyond the intended receiver. We have all send email messages with a listing of email addresses for people we do not know pasted all through a message that has been forwarded over and over again.

It makes me always wonder since I don’t know any of these people, how many times my email address inadvertently gets spread around the Internet.

Just a thought.

I’m currently getting perhaps 10+ spam mails a day!

After it started, it’s been getting progressively worse. I’ve had a Dubai Car Sales company asking if I want to buy a Bugatti Veyron (I wish) mostly though is Viagra & similar meds, software, porn or penis enlargement.

I haven’t followed any of these links to see where they go just in case it’s viral.

When you look into the email contents they appear to originate within legitimate organisations. I contacted one of these, (Cedarville college in US), to say hey guys one of your employees/ pupils is doing this & it’s really annoying. Got a reply from their IT facilities Dept stating it’s originated outside their organisation although all the senders & returns email addresses look as though they are their own. They said that they’d had a lot of similar complaints which they were investigating but the emails had such obscure origins they couldn’t track them to source.

As if to underline this fact, and more worryingly, then received spam where the senders email address was MY EMAIL ADDRESS!! (Was this just to show me what they could do?!)

I don’t know whether my email addy has been sold onto a spam marketing company and this is actual marketing.

I don’t know whether I’ve p*ssed someone off & they’re wreaking havoc as their retribution.

I don’t know whether all of this stuff is generated by the companies who sell anti-spam software to get us to buy that??

One things for sure, if you’re an exec of a company and you think that marketing by spam is a good way to go - wrong call!!! There’s nothing more likely to get peoples backs up so it’s wasted money.

The isp providers, etc. Really need to tackle this stuff and make some serious investment so it’s rejected at source.

C Williams - Llantrisant (Wales UK),
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.