Comments on: Lazy thief seeks obliging victim; click OK to continue http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/08/lazy-thief-seeks-obliging-victim-click-ok-to-continue/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:19:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/08/lazy-thief-seeks-obliging-victim-click-ok-to-continue/#comment-5613 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:34:54 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/08/lazy-thief-seeks-obliging-victim-click-ok-to-continue/#comment-5613 <blockquote>So if I sent you a paypal request but put in the subject line something like 10x 35mm neodymium rare-earth magnets. I might stand a chance? </blockquote> Only if I remember buying them from you :-). (These late comments presumably sparked by <a href="https://twitter.com/dansdata/status/3686048343">these</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dansdata/status/3686050971">tweets</a>.)

So if I sent you a paypal request but put in the subject line something like 10x 35mm neodymium rare-earth magnets. I might stand a chance?

Only if I remember buying them from you :-).

(These late comments presumably sparked by these tweets.)

]]> by: Itsacon http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/08/lazy-thief-seeks-obliging-victim-click-ok-to-continue/#comment-5612 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:57:37 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/08/lazy-thief-seeks-obliging-victim-click-ok-to-continue/#comment-5612 That's why I have a LOT of different aliases on my mail account. Each spam mail that reaches my inbox can thus be traced back to the cause of the leak. Kill the alias, spam gone. Works suprisingly well so far... That's why I have a LOT of different aliases on my mail account. Each spam mail that reaches my inbox can thus be traced back to the cause of the leak. Kill the alias, spam gone.

Works suprisingly well so far...

]]> by: Matt-S http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/08/lazy-thief-seeks-obliging-victim-click-ok-to-continue/#comment-5611 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:57:13 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/08/lazy-thief-seeks-obliging-victim-click-ok-to-continue/#comment-5611 So if I sent you a paypal request but put in the subject line something like 10x 35mm neodymium rare-earth magnets. I might stand a chance? So if I sent you a paypal request but put in the subject line something like 10x 35mm neodymium rare-earth magnets. I might stand a chance?

]]> by: Jonadab http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/08/lazy-thief-seeks-obliging-victim-click-ok-to-continue/#comment-2533 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:06:07 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/08/lazy-thief-seeks-obliging-victim-click-ok-to-continue/#comment-2533 &gt; Because I solicit donations via PayPal, &gt; I receive a certain amount of PayPal-related noise. I think everyone with a publicly-available email address receives PayPal-related noise. My mail filters at home and at work both have special categories for Paypal-related junkmail, and I've never even had a Paypal account. In fact, I think the Paypal-related messages outnumber the 419 scams, though of course they've got nothing on vaigre[sic]. > Because I solicit donations via PayPal,
> I receive a certain amount of PayPal-related noise.

I think everyone with a publicly-available email address receives PayPal-related noise. My mail filters at home and at work both have special categories for Paypal-related junkmail, and I've never even had a Paypal account. In fact, I think the Paypal-related messages outnumber the 419 scams, though of course they've got nothing on vaigre[sic].

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/08/lazy-thief-seeks-obliging-victim-click-ok-to-continue/#comment-2515 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:38:50 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/08/lazy-thief-seeks-obliging-victim-click-ok-to-continue/#comment-2515 Yeah, that letters column really had something for everyone :-). I don't know why I decided to make my letters columns date-less, with only the almost-useless "last modified" date, but I'm actually going back through them and manually putting dates on 'em. Should have done it in the first place; no-one to blame but myself. (I've skipped forward in my date-adding now, and covered columns number 170 to 180. The one with the original Firepower mention was from October 2006.) [<b>Update:</b> I've now grovelled through <b>all</b> of the old letters columns, and put a publication date on every one. A few only have the month and year, because I'm not exactly sure which day I put 'em up, but that'll do.] Yeah, that letters column really had something for everyone :-).

I don't know why I decided to make my letters columns date-less, with only the almost-useless "last modified" date, but I'm actually going back through them and manually putting dates on 'em. Should have done it in the first place; no-one to blame but myself.

(I've skipped forward in my date-adding now, and covered columns number 170 to 180. The one with the original Firepower mention was from October 2006.)

[Update: I've now grovelled through all of the old letters columns, and put a publication date on every one. A few only have the month and year, because I'm not exactly sure which day I put 'em up, but that'll do.]

]]> by: Chazzozz http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/08/lazy-thief-seeks-obliging-victim-click-ok-to-continue/#comment-2514 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:06:00 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/08/lazy-thief-seeks-obliging-victim-click-ok-to-continue/#comment-2514 Wow...I feel like I've clicked into a time warp or something. The very first link in this blog post (the one from 'My advice' in the second paragraph) points to a letters column on Dan's Data from perhaps a couple of years ago (I dunno, you never leave the 'Originally posted...' date up there any more). To refresh my memory, I clicked on the link to re-read the letter in question. Much to my surprise, the very next letter in the self-same column was about none other than...<em><strong>Firepower!</strong></em> And here I was willing to believe that you'd come good on your <a href="http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/07/the-next-post-will-be-about-lego-or-something-i-promise/">promise to post about Lego or something</a>. It was just a flimsy scam to slip in more about Firepower, wasn't it? A scam, I say! A scam! ;-) Wow...I feel like I've clicked into a time warp or something. The very first link in this blog post (the one from 'My advice' in the second paragraph) points to a letters column on Dan's Data from perhaps a couple of years ago (I dunno, you never leave the 'Originally posted...' date up there any more). To refresh my memory, I clicked on the link to re-read the letter in question. Much to my surprise, the very next letter in the self-same column was about none other than...Firepower!

And here I was willing to believe that you'd come good on your promise to post about Lego or something. It was just a flimsy scam to slip in more about Firepower, wasn't it? A scam, I say! A scam!

;-)

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