Stupid Spammers
January 19th, 2010 at 7:27 pm by David FarrarJust got this e-mail:
Hello,
I’m interested in placing a promotional link on your page: http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2008/03/kiwisaver_teething_problems.html.
The link would be for a website which offers cosmetic dentist New York.
I don’t have the biggest budget, but hopefully there is a reasonable price we could arrange.
Please let me know if you’re interested, and if not thanks for your time.
Thanks!
Kim Sommers
Better Link Advertising
1-800-764-8130
God I hate spammers!
January 19th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Thats friken funny…………Be understandable if it was someone from Nigeria etc. but America? They obviously never read the detail of what was on the page…….
Vote:Also I can’t imagine too many kiwis would want to fork out a trip to New York to get dentist work………You should have said that you charge $1000US a word see if she was silly enough to take you up!
January 19th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Spammers.
One of the reasons I do not respond to Viagra Spam is I do not need it
Vote:January 19th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Dentist in New York? ahhhhh that’s why Bliss is going to NY
Vote:January 19th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
You could have informed Kim that you know someone in New York that requires Dentistry, Kim may be up for cheap deals.
Vote:January 19th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
I get those willy-enhancing e-mails regularly.
I wish someone would offer me a willy-reducing product. Then I’d really be interested.
Vote:January 19th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
speaking of stoopid spammers, LOL.
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January 19th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
I miss the old days of the internet, back when Netscape ruled, and we all coveted a 486 machine.
Spam was rare, and just stuck to fairly tame porn of topless women pretending to be teenagers.
Vote:January 19th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
That’s nothing, apparently I have a long lost Irish relation that has left me 20 mill, way to cool. Sent an email back suggesting they donate to charity telling them 20 mill is lose change as far as I’m concerned. Should be like blood in the water to the clowns.
Vote:January 19th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
“which offers cosmetic dentist New York.”
If you hired an American Dentist you would need to give him New York to pay for the treatment!
My Favourite spammers are those working Kiwibank to get people to disclose accounts – their spelling as awful!
Vote:January 19th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
AT least she was polite.
Vote:January 19th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
They don’t want the link for the purposes of display advertising, they want it to boost their ranking position in Google.
Links from pages with high PageRank boost the target site. It’s more complicated that this in practice, but here’s the overview from a few years back:
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
Vote:January 19th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Now there is a crime that execution should be brought back for. Public and messy preferably.
Vote:January 19th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
Isn’t that the same American crowd that philu kept on saying were interested in promoting whoar?
Vote:January 19th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Fair Go ran a story about internet tooth whitening last year http://tvnz.co.nz/fair-go/whiter-than-white-2889431
Vote:January 20th, 2010 at 1:13 am
Maybe we go about the spam problem all wrong. Imagine if everyone who they spammed actually responded, phoned their toll-free line, enquired about their product (but not actually with the intention of buying) etc etc.
This would inundate their ‘business’ so much they wouldn’t know what to do. If they mistook the interest for true demand they would quickly go broke as they hire workers or purchased software/equipment to handle to volume of replies. Even if they had legitimate purchasers they wouldn’t be able to find the genuine buyers amongst the crowd.
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