Spam
It's amazing how easy it is for our email inboxes to be filled with spam. People trying to get us to look at their website or product, people trying to trick us into giving them money in exchange for 6.3 million dollars, etc.
Some of my own relatives almost got taken in by spam this very week. A poor lady was dying of cancer and wanted to give her millions of dollars to a Christian organisation before she died. All they had to do was make a trip to Amsterdam to pick up the money and it was theirs. When I heard about it, I went online and found a copy of the exact same letter posted 3 years ago. Apparently she was dying then too and hundreds of people were responding to get the same money. I also found the same letter with a different name and a different location!
That particular letter turned out to be another version of the Nigerian Spam Scam which has been duping people around the world for quite awhile now. In America alone, the Financial Crimes Division of the Secret Service receives approximately 100 telephone calls from victims/ potential victims and 300-500 pieces of related correspondence per day about this scam! I passed the information on to my relatives and they stepped away from this business before it was too late.
Of course, not all spam is an attempt at fraud. Some of it is just annoying. But, all the same, I never read it. If I get email that looks like spam, I delete it immediately. And now spam has started coming to this website through the comments section of this journal. However, we have taken steps to stop the spam from coming in, not only for our own sake but also for the convenience of those who make and read the comments on this page.
In order to stop that spam from coming in, a "word verification" setting has been activated. Everyone who reads this journal is invited to click on the comments link at the bottom of each entry and to make comments and discuss the things I write about. I read all the comments and really appreciate them. When people enter the comments area they will be shown a series of characters and asked to type the characters shown. It will only take a moment and will verify that it is a real individual making the comment, thus keeping spam from inundating this page.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation in keeping this website spam free!
Some of my own relatives almost got taken in by spam this very week. A poor lady was dying of cancer and wanted to give her millions of dollars to a Christian organisation before she died. All they had to do was make a trip to Amsterdam to pick up the money and it was theirs. When I heard about it, I went online and found a copy of the exact same letter posted 3 years ago. Apparently she was dying then too and hundreds of people were responding to get the same money. I also found the same letter with a different name and a different location!
That particular letter turned out to be another version of the Nigerian Spam Scam which has been duping people around the world for quite awhile now. In America alone, the Financial Crimes Division of the Secret Service receives approximately 100 telephone calls from victims/ potential victims and 300-500 pieces of related correspondence per day about this scam! I passed the information on to my relatives and they stepped away from this business before it was too late.
Of course, not all spam is an attempt at fraud. Some of it is just annoying. But, all the same, I never read it. If I get email that looks like spam, I delete it immediately. And now spam has started coming to this website through the comments section of this journal. However, we have taken steps to stop the spam from coming in, not only for our own sake but also for the convenience of those who make and read the comments on this page.
In order to stop that spam from coming in, a "word verification" setting has been activated. Everyone who reads this journal is invited to click on the comments link at the bottom of each entry and to make comments and discuss the things I write about. I read all the comments and really appreciate them. When people enter the comments area they will be shown a series of characters and asked to type the characters shown. It will only take a moment and will verify that it is a real individual making the comment, thus keeping spam from inundating this page.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation in keeping this website spam free!
posted by Christopher Lewis @ 4:56 PM
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1 Comments:
I have to type the word "jvzik" in order to post this comment- I wonder what it means?
Ah well, that's the way it goes- too bad a small percentage of jerks on the internet have to make things more difficult for all of us.
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