February 2nd, 2008 § 0
I went in and switched the contact information in the website for the property I used to manage. I found out that it hadn’t been updated by the owner and I haven’t been the manager for nine months. I had closed out the PayPal account two months ago. And I had canceled the phone number at the end of April. But the email was still active and someone sent me something from there. So now they’ll have to call the new management company.
It felt good.
August 10th, 2007 § 0
Friends are the best therapy. For everything else there’s chocolate.
August 8th, 2007 § 0
The high tech dynamic network software operating off one and several servers is cool.
The training/operating manual consisting solely of emails is not.
March 24th, 2007 § 0
Hello,
I am Mr. Yeo Mao Cheng, Managing Director of MatrocTechnical Ceramics Co.Ltd, we specialize in the production of high quality technical ceramic products and export into the Canada/ America, Europe. We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our customers in these regions. A lot of Credit is being owe our company ranging to the tune of USD $56.5 million. You will be given the opportunity to negotiate your mode of which we will be paying you. You can ask any question concerning the areas where you are not clear and I assure you that we will answer them to the best of our knowledge. Thank you. If you are interested, forward to us the following information.
Now I can be an importer/distributor of goods made in China.
I guess it would have helped if I had not clicked SPAM.
October 29th, 2006 § 0
Some spammer keeps sending emails to my inbox addressed to someone named Melissa Lane.
Sorry. Nobody here by that name. Please check the listing and dial your call again. Thank you.
April 20th, 2006 § 0
Tags: Amber Alert :: Hoax :: Snopes :: Email
I just got the Penny Brown email for probably the 6th or 7th time in 3 years. Emailed the person who sent it with the snopes dot com link.
Every time it’s the same email. A 9 year old girl named Penny Brown who has been missing for 2 weeks. I cannot recall whether I have gotten another Amber Alert email ever. I am not on the official email list, if one exists. The same thing happens every time. Someone gets this email. The OMG noise goes off in their head. They half read it. They click the forward button and fire it off to everyone in their address book. It’s urgent, right? Not so urgent that you can’t take a minute to run it through Google, or go to Snopes and check it out. Come on, folks. Emergency people don’t react to hearsay with such reckless urgency. The little girl is not going to die because you didn’t “act now” with your email account. These sorts of mass forwards are just wasting people’s time and not allowing the real victims to get help because people are reading this stuff.
I wonder if anyone has tried to contact the parents of the girl in this photo. According to Snopes the email has been circulating since around 2001. So she’d be 14. Maybe if they knew what was happening with their daughter’s picture they’d get some sort of retraction circulating. Or it’s an old photo and the girl in it is much older and the one who started it all. Who knows?
How easy would it be for one of the internet worm guys to attach something to an email that gets mindlessly mass distributed?