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Skype spam

Started by Shripriya · 8 months ago

This is a first… the African “multi-million dollars are coming to you” scheme has now reached Skype. How could it not?
Dear friend,
We want to transfer to overseas ($6,000.000.00 USD) six million United States Dollars) from a Bank in Africa. Iwan ... Continue reading »

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Perspective Inc
1 year ago

Bah at spam. Does it ever end? Whats next?

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mumbaigirl
1 year ago

I get these damn things in my work email all the time.

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Rational Human
1 year ago

SPAM is an abuse of a free resource. Make it free and people WILL abuse it. The only rational solution I've heard to-date? re-imbursable micro-charges for bandwidth.
Here's how it works- you send out an e-mail. You get charged a few cents. If the recipient doesn't mark it as SPAM, you get your money back (i.e. this doesn't make the net any costlier, doesn't regulate it, doesn't disenfranchise anyone)

But for a SPAM-mer, since the response rate is

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