Spam Strategy Guide

Mrs Butcher I love you

What with the price of petrol doing what it is I could hardly contain myself when this turned up in my inbox today.

Mrs.Faustina Butcher you are my best friend … NOT!!

Do you know of anyone who actually responds to this garbage?

BIG LOTTERY FUND BIRMINGHAM CENTRE,
APEX HOUSE
3 EMBASSY DRIVE
EDGBASTON,
BRIMINGHAM B15 1TR,
UNITED KINGDOM.

We are pleased to inform you that as a result of our recent BIG LOTTERY FUND PROGRAMME DRAWS (#1001) held on the 1ST of April, 2008 through computer ballot system Your email,is attached to ticket number 023-1856-790-279, with serial number 5073-10 drew the lucky numbers 43-58-42-37-69-72 Bonus No. 7, and consequently won the lottery in the first category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of ?2,500,000.00 POUNDS STERLING.{Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds sterling} in cash credited to file REF: BLF/26510460037/02.

This is from total prize money of ?25,000,000.00 shared among Ten Lucky international winners in this category.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa as part of International Promotions Program.

You have to send following details in order to facilitate the processing and release of your winning.

Name: …………………………
Nationality:……………………
Country of residence: …………..
Tel number: ……………………
Occupation: ……………………
Sex: ………………………….
Age:…………………………..
Winning E-mail Address:………….
Draw Number:……………………
Amount Won:…………………….
Ticket Number:………………….
Winning Numbers:………………..
Serial Number:………………….
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claims and unwarranted abuse of this program by some winners.You are requested tocontact your claims officer Mr. Glenn Roeder,to assist you with the processing of your winnings and subsequent payments. =============================================================
Phone: +447031929596 +447031927041 Fax: +447005800254
Mr. Glenn Roeder. Email: claims_glenn@yahoo.com.hk =============================================================

Yours Truly, Mrs.Faustina Butcher.
Online coordinator, BIG FUND LOTTERY, Sweepstakes International Program. Open 7 days 8am-11pm. N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to Disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your claim agent immediately

If you are sick of receiving this garbage then the solution is within your grasp.

ACTION: Implement Action 3 and 5 and never see this garbage again. It’s that simple.

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So you don’t want SPAM

There is a plethora of unwanted email newsletter space and lots of chatter surrounding "birthday of spam"

Amongst all of the moaning, complaining and waffle being written, it’s so obvious that the complainers have chosen, yes chosen, to be victims of spam. They wallow in their pity and mouth off about how horrible it is and how much time it takes up and that there is little that can be done to stop it.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say this is utter diatribe.

I’ve just checked my email account traffic for the past week

• My 15 stand alone email accounts (POP3) had 2 spam messages.
• Gmail Account 1 had 125 spam messages including 5 Google alert emails (Go figure … Google sends mail that it classes as spam!)
• Gmail Account 2 had 195 spam messages all of which were spam

I don’t use any filtering programs on my desktop nor do I use Spam Assassin or other solution on my web server.
Yeah I’m bragging, but this is pretty much a normal week for me as I use the Spam Strategies outlined in the guide..

How do I do it? I use the Spam Strategy Guide

Fixing the blame on Gary Thuerk for sending the first spam email and fixing the blame on all the others who send the unwanted email you receive is not, and never will make one iota of difference to the spam in your inbox. That’s a victim mentality approach.

Action: Fixing the problem is about taking responsibility for how you manage your email addresses and the Spam Strategy Guide is a front line to preventing spam ending up in your inbox.  

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Are You As Fed Up With Email Spam As I Am?

If you’re like me, when you check your email every morning, the first thing you’re met with are emails touting the latest and greatest sexual enhancement drugs, get rich quick schemes, weight loss dream pills and many other wonderful products that spammers love to promote. Have you had enough?

If you answered yes, then I have a solution for you. For those of you who’ve been reading my blog for quite some time, you know that I don’t normally post articles about products. However, a friend of mine recommended a product to me the other day that I fell in love with. It’s called XXX and it truly is a necessity for everyone this day and age.

J. Anthony from Positive Pelham expresses so well what so many of us experience when we try and use filters and software to act as a barrier to spam related emails.

What he doesn’t realise, or may be he does, that software can’t overcome psychological reactions of people.

Action: Blatent plug .. the Spam Strategy Guide overcomes psychological reasons for responding to and how emails arrive regardless of the filtering process. It also doesn’t impose gateways, please tell me you are a human, on people you already have an existing relationship with.

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