Anyone ever mess with the spammers?

[MichaelD]

:evil: I hate these people with a passion...I have always dreamed of making their life as miserable as they make mine.

Today I received an email (to my personal email...Outlook Junk Filter caught it). It reads:

Thank you for your loan request, which we recieved on 08/11/06,

we'd like to inform you that we are accepting your application, bad credit ok, We are ready to give you a $260,000 loan for a low month payment.

Approval process will take only 1 minute.

Please visit the confirmation link below and fill-out our short 30 second form.

www.gonein.com

Oh wow...I could sure use a quarter million bucks for a "low month payment!" :Q

Anyone ever fill in one of these type forms with a totally fake name, SSN, etc?

Years ago, before the "Opt Out" came into being, I'd hand the telemarketer on the phone to my then 3 year old son. He LOVED talking to them! :beer:

 

[pontifex]

no, i don't waste my time
btw, how does hitting the delete key make your life miserable? or as you said, iot was in your junk mail. just delet it. why bother at all?

 

[Mermaidman]

I don't bother filling out the forms, but I sometimes dissect the spoof sites. Once, a careless phisher actually had the scammed CC numbers, names, PINs, and passwords in an excel file that was accessible! I think I still have that file somewhere . . .

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: pontifex
no, i don't waste my time
btw, how does hitting the delete key make your life miserable? or as you said, iot was in your junk mail. just delet it. why bother at all?

I don't even have to hit the delete key; my Outlook is set up to automagically delete the contents of the Junk Email folder when I exit Outlook. I would like to do it b/c sometimes I'm just in a nut-busting mood.

 

[HannibalX]

It's fun to screw with the cons.

Generally I go through their entire "game" until the last step and never email them again. It's great.

I also figure if they are wasting time with me thats time they aren't actually scamming someone.