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I didn't want to post this in the original thread in the review sub forum not wanting to bump it up but I mean, what's the point. Will this really result in anyone viewing their site. Why all the apostrophes after each letter surely if your gonna do this it got to be a direct link? Does this type of post actually result in traffic?

Just curious

Steve
 
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Clearly at some level it does work or it wouldn't happen so much.

It's like Dr. Mabola from Kenya who needs to get his money out and knows I will help him. I just can't understand how anybody would fall for it but clearly they do or we wouldn't get them so often
 
All forums have filtering software that allows you to filter out certain words, e.g. kitchens ... spammers use all sorts of options to get around this e.g. K1tchens, kit-chens etc etc
It's time consuming but not impossible to filter out all options.
 
Yep as Gramps said, Marcel has built into the swear filter the common spammers links so it will break the web links.
 
munch said:
Clearly at some level it does work or it wouldn't happen so much.

It's like Dr. Mabola from Kenya who needs to get his money out and knows I will help him. I just can't understand how anybody would fall for it but clearly they do or we wouldn't get them so often
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The 419 scams are well organised. Send out, say, 10,0000 bait mails and you only need a 1% response to give you 100 leads. If only 1% of these (1 person) falls for it, you can probably take them for anything from a few thousand USD to tens of thousands in advance "fees" before they get cold feet or run out of money. That's not a bad return for very little expenditure, and the sky's the limit if you can lure them to an African country to complete the "transaction". The last act is kidnap for ransom, or extortion.

The temptation factor is greed, like most scams. A lot of people think the spelling and grammatical errors in the mails are giveaways, but they're deliberate, to persuade you that the writer isn't a native English speaker and possibly not too switched on.
 
The unfortunate thing is that the kitchen cupboard supplier that was the subject of this morning's spam do actually make very good units! Not sure if it's them who dod the spamming or if they're some sort of victim too. I have a s#!t list of companies who have cold called at the door or via telephone or spam mail and I will not deal with them (and tell them so and why) - maybe competitors spam forums etc to prejudice people against some companies?
 
gramps said:
All forums have filtering software that allows you to filter out certain words, e.g. kitchens ... spammers use all sorts of options to get around this e.g. K1tchens, kit-chens etc etc
It's time consuming but not impossible to filter out all options.
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Thanks, that explains the apostrophes then

Steve
 
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