What the hell does this mean??????

[Zeb_Carter]

"You have missed mails coniferous"

That was the subject line in a spam email.

Does it mean my mail will stay green forever?

 

[Handley_Page]

English ain't always a strong point

 

[HandsInTheDark]

An older spam technique involved generating a different nonsense sentence for the subject of each email, and often gibberish in a small font in the body too. They were trying to confuse spam filters that triggered on a preponderance of spammy words.

May your email stay forever green this holiday season.

(As the kids have mostly given up on email as an old person's technology, it's possible spammers will eventually migrate away.)

 

[rjordan]

An older spam technique involved generating a different nonsense sentence for the subject of each email, and often gibberish in a small font in the body too. They were trying to confuse spam filters that triggered on a preponderance of spammy words.

May your email stay forever green this holiday season.

(As the kids have mostly given up on email as an old person's technology, it's possible spammers will eventually migrate away.)

Except old people are often their primary target and ultimate victims.

rj

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I contend its easier to pay a medical clerk for a DVD fulla patient data than it is to hack a computer.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

and...

There was a link in the email that went nowhere near the site it said it was from.

Well it was in my spam folder so Chrome knew what it was and that's the way I treated it..."empty spam".

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I contend its easier to pay a medical clerk for a DVD fulla patient data than it is to hack a computer.

That may be true, but first you have to find the persons real name, unless they are stupid Facebook users, then you have to find the city they live in, unless they are stupid Facebook users. Then you need to know what doctor they go to, kinda hard to do even for stupid Facebook users. Then you have to develop a relationship with the medical clerk and feel them out. Then you might be able to offer them enough money to break the cone of silence.

Really might be easier to hack the computer.

 

[NotWise]

Then you have to develop a relationship with the medical clerk and feel them out.

Maybe feeling them up rather than out would work.

 

[Handley_Page]

Except old people are often their primary target and ultimate victims.

rj

Thanks for the reminder

 

[AKentuckyLady]

I so want to be a smart-ass and answer this, but I don't want to give you the wrong impression.

Ahem. Being good.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

I so want to be a smart-ass and answer this, but I don't want to give you the wrong impression.

Ahem. Being good.

... Why?

And which impression is the wrong impression, exactly? I get them mixed up.

 

[TxRad]

I keep envisioning someone open a letter and one of those pine tree air fresheners falling out.

 

[lovecraft68]

I so want to be a smart-ass and answer this, but I don't want to give you the wrong impression.

Ahem. Being good.

Were you going to needle him? Come on, I'm pining to know!

 

[AKentuckyLady]

Were you going to needle him? Come on, I'm pining to know!

Yes, it was something along those lines

Along with wondering how his cones compared to coniferous pine cones...

 

[AKentuckyLady]

... Why?

And which impression is the wrong impression, exactly? I get them mixed up.

Wrong impression = "What a bitch."

Right impression = "Okay, that was sorta funny..."

 

[Learin]

"You have missed mails coniferous"

That was the subject line in a spam email.

Does it mean my mail will stay green forever?

I think the spammer meant conferance.

Guess their spell-checker went apeshit.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I think the spammer meant conferance.

Guess their spell-checker went apeshit.

Why? Coniferous is a word spelled correctly.

 

[Learin]

Why? Coniferous is a word spelled correctly.

I think the spammers were trying to spell conferance but the spell-checker converted it to conferance.

That's what I meant.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Thanks for the reminder

He means 'mature' not 'wrinkly'!

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I think the spammers were trying to spell conferance but the spell-checker converted it to conferance.

That's what I meant.

The spammers have a random word selection routine and they really don't care what words are there. I have since gotten several of the same email with just a jumble of nonsensical random words in the subject.

 

[rjordan]

He means 'mature' not 'wrinkly'!

That works. When I said "old people", I didn't mean anyone here, of course. I'm old, but I don't consider myself as belonging to "old people". When I go into a room, I can't always remember why I went there, but at least I still recognize the room.

rj

 

[Handley_Page]

That works. When I said "old people", I didn't mean anyone here, of course. I'm old, but I don't consider myself as belonging to "old people". When I go into a room, I can't always remember why I went there, but at least I still recognize the room.

rj

I have noticed that I need to write down some sort of shopping list, lately.
I can sometime go round the local Market, greet people and come away feeling better - but without whatever it was I originally wanted. . . .

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I have noticed that I need to write down some sort of shopping list, lately.
I can sometime go round the local Market, greet people and come away feeling better - but without whatever it was I originally wanted. . . .

Yeah, I go to the store for butter and some beer. I get home with the beer, a sandwich, a cooked chicken and some croissants and no butter. Shit. It was actually the butter that I needed, the beer was an afterthought.