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Post by Gumbyhawk on Sept 17, 2008 7:13:35 GMT -6
Surely everyone on the board gets these.
You know... the email "warnings" about stupid shit that is not true.
Example: yesterday, I got an email about how car-jackers are putting paper on the back windows of cars. When you get in, start to back up, and then get out to remove the paper... the jackers come out of nowhere and get in! (OMFG!!!)
Today: another email about how MSN is gonna start charging for email services. Even after I found the Snopes article disproving this, the original sender emailed me a link to a BBC news article... FROM 2001! The Snopes article was updated this year! <sigh>
Does anyone else get as many of these as I do? What are some of the best ones you've read?
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Post by Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Heywood) on Sept 17, 2008 7:19:24 GMT -6
What about the email that says Bill Gates will pay you for each person you forward the email to? I had it sent to me again a few months ago by someone who thought he was going to get paid. It's sad....
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Post by Gumbyhawk on Sept 17, 2008 7:20:58 GMT -6
Yep. I had that sent to me years ago.
It's fukking amazing at easily gullible people are.
"I read it on one o' them innernets!! It's gotta be TRUE!!"
<shakes head>
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Post by germaine on Sept 17, 2008 7:24:18 GMT -6
There's always the email that promises some sort of dancing cartoon after you send it to 20 people.
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Post by mattahawk on Sept 17, 2008 7:40:46 GMT -6
What about the email that says Bill Gates will pay you for each person you forward the email to? I had it sent to me again a few months ago by someone who thought he was going to get paid. It's sad.... I get those too. Usually some firemans kid has MS or some shit like that and needs me to send it on to 20 different people so the guy can collect some cash. I also get alot of political ones about Obama. Very few of which are true unfortunately. They were talking about that on O'reilly last night. Two different guys sent in e-mails saying Obama was born in Kenya, don't remember what the other was. O'reilly told them not to believe everything they read on the net and laughed. |
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Post by Gumbyhawk on Sept 17, 2008 7:44:32 GMT -6
What about the email that says Bill Gates will pay you for each person you forward the email to? I had it sent to me again a few months ago by someone who thought he was going to get paid. It's sad.... I get those too. Usually some firemans kid has MS or some shit like that and needs me to send it on to 20 different people so the guy can collect some cash. I also get alot of political ones about Obama. Very few of which are true unfortunately. They were talking about that on O'reilly last night. Two different guys sent in e-mails saying Obama was born in Kenya, don't remember what the other was. O'reilly told them not to believe everything they read on the net and laughed. Word. People call into the Marshalltown paper's call-in line about Obama and how he is a practicing Satanist, terrorist, etc, etc. It's almost a daily occurence. You just KNOW the type of people who are calling this shit in too. Fukking stupid-ass blue hairs. They just need to stick to solitaire and dump the email/net. |
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Post by Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Heywood) on Sept 17, 2008 7:48:01 GMT -6
I get those too. Usually some firemans kid has MS or some shit like that and needs me to send it on to 20 different people so the guy can collect some cash. I also get alot of political ones about Obama. Very few of which are true unfortunately. They were talking about that on O'reilly last night. Two different guys sent in e-mails saying Obama was born in Kenya, don't remember what the other was. O'reilly told them not to believe everything they read on the net and laughed. Word. People call into the Marshalltown paper's call-in line about Obama and how he is a practicing Satanist, terrorist, etc, etc. It's almost a daily occurence. You just KNOW the type of people who are calling this shit in too. Fukking stupid-ass blue hairs. They just need to stick to solitaire and dump the email/net. It is Marshalltown after all........ Do the blue-hairs have anything better to do? I suppose Walmart doesn't need any greeters. |
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Post by mattahawk on Sept 17, 2008 7:59:41 GMT -6
Word. People call into the Marshalltown paper's call-in line about Obama and how he is a practicing Satanist, terrorist, etc, etc. It's almost a daily occurence. You just KNOW the type of people who are calling this shit in too. Fukking stupid-ass blue hairs. They just need to stick to solitaire and dump the email/net. It is Marshalltown after all........ Do the blue-hairs have anything better to do? I suppose Walmart doesn't need any greeters. I have an uncle in Cedar Falls that is a greeter at Wal-mart,  , I remember going in there a couple of years ago to buy something I think for Thanksgiving in CF's and he had to work till like noon or something. LMFAO, I couldn't believe it. I wonder what the odds are e-mails such as those have a shitload of spyware attached to them? Can't be good. |
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Post by socal on Sept 17, 2008 8:23:24 GMT -6
My mom is/was almost pathological about this.
She used to forward every conceivable piece of crap imaginable. After 3 or so verbal talks, and countless increasingly terse rebuttals with links to Snopes --- she seems to be in a slower auto-forward state.
She did learn though to not forward the e-mails with the "e-mailer history chain" --- As on more than a few occasions, I've embarassed the heck out of her by sending the rebuttal to all her friends & e-mail originators......
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Post by NotMyKid on Sept 17, 2008 8:28:07 GMT -6
My favorites are all of the inheritance ones that come out of Africa. All I need to do is send them my personal info and bank info and they will transfer $2 million in to my account.
The worst part about it there are people out there dumb enough to fall for that crap.
A close second are all of the political crap that I get. Anybody with have a brain can tell that those emails are biased and false or with one little trip to snopes.
I used to send people links to snopes to the people that sent them to me but it basically is a waste of time so I pretty much just laugh at the crap and delete it.
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Post by Norm "racerhawk" Parker on Sept 17, 2008 8:36:09 GMT -6
I get those too. Usually some firemans kid has MS or some shit like that and needs me to send it on to 20 different people so the guy can collect some cash. I also get alot of political ones about Obama. Very few of which are true unfortunately. They were talking about that on O'reilly last night. Two different guys sent in e-mails saying Obama was born in Kenya, don't remember what the other was. O'reilly told them not to believe everything they read on the net and laughed. Word. People call into the Marshalltown paper's call-in line about Obama and how he is a practicing Satanist, terrorist, etc, etc. It's almost a daily occurence. You just KNOW the type of people who are calling this shit in too. Fukking stupid-ass blue hairs. They just need to stick to solitaire and dump the email/net. I'm from Marshalltown. I nodded as I read your post. oh, man. |
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Post by Gumbyhawk on Sept 17, 2008 8:38:01 GMT -6
As on more than a few occasions, I've embarassed the heck out of her by sending the rebuttal to all her friends & e-mail originators...... I do this every chance I get... including once yesterday. I also did it once last year and some guy (the originator) emailed me back all pissed off for essentially calling him out for the fuckwit he was. I just calmly forwarded all of my spam and adware shit to him for two weeks. Never heard from him again. |
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Post by Earl on Sept 17, 2008 8:59:51 GMT -6
This drives me crazy as well....my father-in-law is notorious for the "auto-forward." GREAT guy, just too naive about everything being the truth in his in-box because so-and-so sent it to him......
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Post by socal on Sept 17, 2008 9:00:42 GMT -6
As on more than a few occasions, I've embarassed the heck out of her by sending the rebuttal to all her friends & e-mail originators...... I do this every chance I get... including once yesterday. I also did it once last year and some guy (the originator) emailed me back all pissed off for essentially calling him out for the fuckwit he was. I just calmly forwarded all of my spam and adware shit to him for two weeks. Never heard from him again. This is from an actual AND REAL e-mail that was escalated up to me from our call center yesterday (Note: I added X's to protect his identity): Subject: WHY IS IT NOT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO TALK TO A LIVE OPERATOR??? THIS IS A SAD REFLECTION ON YOUR COMPANY!!!!! I HAVE CALLED YOUR # {1-888-XXX-XXXX} THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME BY YOUR PAPER WORK...AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBE TO SPEAK TO ANYONE!!!!!! I AM SO GLAD WE BOMBED THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!!!!!!! JIM HXXXXXX FT. LAUDERDALE CALL ME AND BEG FOR MY MERCY OR I WILL CALL MY BROTHER WHO FLIES A SUPER FORTRESS AND HE WILL DROP ANOTHER EGG ON TOKYO!!! HM# {954-XXX-XXXX} OR MY CELL {954-XXX-XXXX} ~~WHAT? YOU PEOPLE DON'T MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO HIRE SOMEONE TO ANSWER THE PHONES??? I called the guy alright... and I can confirm without a doubt... Yes, he is an idiot. |
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Post by NotMyKid on Sept 17, 2008 9:05:57 GMT -6
I do this every chance I get... including once yesterday. I also did it once last year and some guy (the originator) emailed me back all pissed off for essentially calling him out for the fuckwit he was. I just calmly forwarded all of my spam and adware shit to him for two weeks. Never heard from him again. This is from an actual AND REAL e-mail that was escalated up to me from our call center yesterday (Note: I added X's to protect his identity): Subject: WHY IS IT NOT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO TALK TO A LIVE OPERATOR??? THIS IS A SAD REFLECTION ON YOUR COMPANY!!!!! I HAVE CALLED YOUR # {1-888-XXX-XXXX} THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME BY YOUR PAPER WORK...AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBE TO SPEAK TO ANYONE!!!!!! I AM SO GLAD WE BOMBED THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!!!!!!! JIM HXXXXXX FT. LAUDERDALE CALL ME AND BEG FOR MY MERCY OR I WILL CALL MY BROTHER WHO FLIES A SUPER FORTRESS AND HE WILL DROP ANOTHER EGG ON TOKYO!!! HM# {954-XXX-XXXX} OR MY CELL {954-XXX-XXXX} ~~WHAT? YOU PEOPLE DON'T MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO HIRE SOMEONE TO ANSWER THE PHONES??? I called the guy alright... and I can confirm without a doubt... Yes, he is an idiot. Great stuff! That is both funny as hell and really sad. |
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Post by Gumbyhawk on Sept 17, 2008 9:14:10 GMT -6
Reminds me of when I was working as a claims adjuster. This was shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing. Anyway, this assbagger calls in to bitch about his claim and says "I'd better get my money or what happened in Oklahoma City will be nothing compared to what happens to your office". 'Twasn't long before this chap had other, more pressing concerns than his insurance claim.  |
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Post by socal on Sept 17, 2008 9:21:19 GMT -6
This is from an actual AND REAL e-mail that was escalated up to me from our call center yesterday (Note: I added X's to protect his identity): Subject: WHY IS IT NOT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO TALK TO A LIVE OPERATOR??? THIS IS A SAD REFLECTION ON YOUR COMPANY!!!!! I HAVE CALLED YOUR # {1-888-XXX-XXXX} THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME BY YOUR PAPER WORK...AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBE TO SPEAK TO ANYONE!!!!!! I AM SO GLAD WE BOMBED THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!!!!!!! JIM HXXXXXX FT. LAUDERDALE CALL ME AND BEG FOR MY MERCY OR I WILL CALL MY BROTHER WHO FLIES A SUPER FORTRESS AND HE WILL DROP ANOTHER EGG ON TOKYO!!! HM# {954-XXX-XXXX} OR MY CELL {954-XXX-XXXX} ~~WHAT? YOU PEOPLE DON'T MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO HIRE SOMEONE TO ANSWER THE PHONES??? I called the guy alright... and I can confirm without a doubt... Yes, he is an idiot. Great stuff! That is both funny as hell and really sad. OK, I've got to describe our conversation ( )= my thoughts... I called and described whom I was / whom I represented, and he starts in on a 3 minute rant about how his TV isn't working right (for this particular company, we don't have anything to do with this). I finally get a word in, and start off with "Mr. H, I first have to tell you - What in the heck were you thinking sending a threatening e-mail like that to someone? ..... the conversation quickly degraded to him saying it was a joke... to me pointing out that the recipient of his e-mail was a little 67 year old lady in Peoria, Illinois - that is now crying scared to death (lie about the crying & scared & 67... and especially the little). When I pointed out that we never actually dropped an "egg" on Tokyo - only Hiroshima & Nagasaki... and said the Superfortress was retired in the 50's or 60's, he said that he's a historic airplane buff... and he doesn't actually have a brother - so that's why it's such a joke. After 5 or so more minutes of this, I stopped - and thought to myself that I'm talking to a man-child here. I then asked him to explain his problem --- it turns out it was a user error. Before ending the call I told him that if he wants a decent response, he should state his problem in the e-mail - instead of threatening to bomb a country that played no part in the manufacture or sale of his television. Then hit him with the little old lady thing again. He was laughing, and admitted he was a bit out of line. (I bet he was a big Dubya fan) |
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Post by Gumbyhawk on Sept 17, 2008 9:25:29 GMT -6
If you would have said the guy was calling from Memphis, I'd have a pretty good idea who it might have been...
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Post by socal on Sept 23, 2008 20:52:16 GMT -6
My favorites are all of the inheritance ones that come out of Africa. All I need to do is send them my personal info and bank info and they will transfer $2 million in to my account. The worst part about it there are people out there dumb enough to fall for that crap. A close second are all of the political crap that I get. Anybody with have a brain can tell that those emails are biased and false or with one little trip to snopes. I used to send people links to snopes to the people that sent them to me but it basically is a waste of time so I pretty much just laugh at the crap and delete it. Sadly related... |
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Post by twinegarden on Sept 24, 2008 13:08:13 GMT -6
Example: yesterday, I got an email about how car-jackers are putting paper on the back windows of cars. When you get in, start to back up, and then get out to remove the paper... the jackers come out of nowhere and get in! (OMFG!!!) I got that same email yesterday from a co-worker. I think if I get bored sometime I might tape a couple pieces of papers on people's back windows when they leave the grocery store just to see how bad they freak out. |
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