Socio-Political Rants
Under the law of supply and demand that governs everything in a capitalistic world which most of us are part of, it means that unless there is profit involved, there will be no supply. Therefore in a very unscientific research program called my “inbox” I would assume spammers are garnering a lot of business from all sorts of people who need enlargement, prescription drugs, hotgirls, and cash from Nigerian Scam artists with imaginary bank accounts. I simply cannot believe people will spend this much time and effort hijacking servers, stealing and amalgamating email lists and sending out million and millions of spams every day without any chance of profit in return.
So this is an OPEN CALL to anyone brave enough to admit that they are patrons of such advertising, and explain to me the demographics and target market of those who are currently subscribing and forcing the rest of us to delete nearly everything that comes to our email.
Thank You.
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
You certainly piqued me interest!
Everyday my page gets ass-raped by comment spam, so naturally I’ve thought about it too..
But I think I probably learned the reason for it along time ago: it has something to do with increasing their google rank. I guess the more sites that link to them (because of their spamming), the higher up they show when someone searches for viagra or whatever 😦
either way, who the hell buys penis pills, gambles online (all the convenience of a casino with 0% of the fun), or signs up on online life insurance, and don’t you need a prescription for viagra anyways?
So ya, still curious..
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They say there is a sucker born every minute…
The Nigerian scam and its variants are probably real life fraud situations – do a seach for 4 1 9 s c a m without the spaces in-between. Citibank phishing cases are also an example of this.
Then there are those companies that offer targetted marketing and are unscrupulous in how they actually target. These include companies offering email spam and targetted “hits” (i.e. spend X and get 1000 guaranteed hits in a month). These would fall under your laws of supply and demand.
There are those that ignore privacy laws and sell your email on for profit.
Mostly it is script kiddies who have nothing better to do. I think these account for most of the worms and spam out there. They are targetting poorly configured servers and vulnerable PCs. It’s not so much that there is profit but it is the fact that they can. And spamming one or a thousand machines with a worm-like script is all the same.
Some of the more entreprenial script kiddies have probably figured that one or two percent of the thousands of email address they spam will have a sucker in them, hand over some extra pocket money for them to spend on the weekend.
Mail on the Mac has a fairly good spam filter though. Although if you are using a free service like Yahoo, the only way is to rely on their servers to filter it out. If your mail is provided by another provider, perhaps ask them to install something like spam assassin on their servers. Let me know if you need further advice.
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Hold on a minute you mean I am not getting six million from my Nigerian friends? What has the world come to when you can’t trust a deposed dictator and his friends? And I am not sure my viagra is real now either. You have cast doubt on so many of the things I believed…
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You are a sick man Ethan. I need to reply your email about our other crazy friend, who i also believe would be gunning for enlargements. It would be so Eric.
Y
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Hi, Eric, not that I am saying you’re small or anything as I have never seen it. (Just in case he comes by, I don’t want to get in trouble.
y
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Y, Send me an email with how to get ahold of you, I got some breast enlargement cream by accident. Oh yeah, and I am living in Taiwan now. I would email, but I am still lazy.
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Are you saying something about the size of my breasts?? Don’t answer. Thank you. I already had my underwear showing to large crowds today. no more comments. thank you.
Yan
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Yan,
I believe the im,plication would actually be…
Ok your right no more. I hope you enjoy the concerts.
Ethan
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Go to Hell. I am glad we missed Green Day. 😛
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I really believe you are, all you cared about was L7. Sounds like you are having a fun time this weekend.
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No. Breeders too!
Smashing Pumpkins…
and okay. i admit it I never cared for Green Day….
You know you lived in SD for so long.. I am sure they toured again since 1994. But did you go? No.
So there.
This weekend has such the loloplooza feel. On the grass, big main stage. Except it’s three days…
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And you know what’s cool? I have an all access pass. 😛
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I am sure you had fun this weekend, I hope you did not miss anything. Did you beat up any kids in the mosh pit this time out? You bully.
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No! I am too old for that now.
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Too old? What the hell are you talking about, you are not too old. You sound like my mom. Next concert you go to you get in there and beat some kids up, have a good time. You know that was your favorite part of Lalapolooza.
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no really, I am too old for that now. When I stand near the kids, the force of their energy kinda pushes me backwards. It’s kinda crazy. Anyway, I am the camera person nowadays. More like the grown up part of the festival.
y
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Y,
Give me a call some time. I get bored and all my friends are sleeping when I am able to talk. It is easier to take give you a hard time on the phone anyway. Oh yeah, and nobody gets to read your sarcastic comebacks either.
Ethan
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