Greeting me this morning, two Romanian spammers and an utter ripoff in Amazon’s marketplace…where a pretty brazen pirate is offering downloads. I’ve had to ferret Amazon’s addy out of an impenetrable maze…which has cost me an entire hour of work time. Where in cosmic law do I deserve the personal attention of two Romanians who think spam is ok and a major large-scale pirate operating under Amazon’s flag. Do not buy any download of mine from Amazon until they get this straightened out.
What a morning…already 2 spammers and a pirate
by CJ | Aug 27, 2010 | Journal | 26 comments
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On the one hand you can think, “I’ve really made it now! The spammers think they can make a profit out of me.” Followed quickly by, “Hey, wait a second!” Hope your encounter with with Romanian mafia goes well. Just be glad it isn’t the Nigerians.
Oh, the pirates and the Romanians are two different groups. That’s disappointing. My statement about the Nigerians still stand though.
Sorry to hear about the pirates. The spammers can/should be handed by a good spam filter. Very few Romanians, Russian, Nigerians, or what have you make it to my inbox.
The Amazon pirates, though. Bad news. I’ll keep an eye out. Thanks for the heads-up!
A further comment re spam if I may for later consideration when things have calmed down.
I use gmail and have never seen, in many years of computing any spam filters remotely as good as theirs.
I have had two false positives in almost two years of use and no spam in my inbox which gets about fifty messages per day on average. The spam box is easily checked once in a while for false positives and it is easy to tell it that in future they should be treated as good guys.
Having established an account I ask it to feed it’s collection to my main email address so no other changes are needed and asked my correspondents to start using the gmail address instead of the main one.
Some which may be set up for electronic magazines, lists, software etc can gradually be changed.
If one has to change to a new ISP for any reason, one address change in gmail will do it.
Re: gmail, it’s ironic that most of the fraudulent classified ads that are received at my place of employment are using a gmail address. Their spam filter for their legitimate users may be excellent, but apparently there is no method by which to prevent Nigerian (or other) scammers from obtaining gmail addresses for illegal purposes. It’s not the only email service they use by any means, but it is the most prevalent.
“2 spammers and a pirate”? In the old days, that would have been half the cast of a Union/Alliance novel!
And could be again! 🙂
I see your tweets on twitter. Not sure why you can’t see anyone else, but make sure you try clicking the “home” button on the sidebar so you are looking at the right feed. If you have the @CJCherry clicked then you are only going to see instances of your own name, not your own tweets or tweets of your followers.
😆 Thank you, sweetbo! Jackie Lichtenberg said I should try #scifichat and it’s certainly a strange medium! Hence the mike tapping (“Is this thing on?”) —sorry about that. 😉
Re 2 spammers and a pirate—re-:lol: I swear, what a morning already, and my brand new camera broke!
On the other hand, I got it from Costco and it has a 90-day return. So the morning is looking up.
Hoist the scurvious dogs up the yardarm and drop ’em in the drink. Tis a shame it be but a ‘virtual’ dunking. Arrr!
More ‘n a shot across their bows—sink ’em, I say.
Jackie Lichtenberg; a name I haven’t heard in a while. Two of my favourites were (are) Molt Brother and City of a Million Legends and I see they’re on Fictionwise. Goody.
JL does sell her books on Amazon as well. We used to be at a lot of cons in common, and I haven’t seen her in years. She turned up on facebook.
Oh, and I found out what my trouble was on Twitter: JL gave me the chat name #scifichat, but it wasn’t until the affair was over that somebody finally gave me the equally important buzzword ‘tweetchat’. I was trying to participate via tweets alone and it was incredibly bizarre. Tweetchat makes it operate much more like regular chat. JL had to have assumed I was signed up to tweetchat, but I was quite asea on that one, to continue a metaphor.
She frequently shows up at LosCon, over Thanksgiving weekend.
I’m glad you tried to join in! If you hadn’t, I might not have found you again. I used to read your blog when it was all on one brightly-colored page, but somewhere in the computer-changes since I lost you.
Now to see if my gravatar is in place, since this sign-in is not my WordPress one… *clicks*
You’re in!
Not downloading anything from Amazon at all. I do have a $25 card for the Sony eBookstore, but haven’t found anything I like yet. My downloads have been from Closed Circle and Project Gutenberg almost exclusively.
I wonder if my public library ever intends to make ebooks a viable means of lending books out. A time limit on the file, and one renewal for extension, and then it goes away. I don’t know if that’s practical, either.
8 more Romanian spammers.
Can’t you put a filter in to kill everything ending in .ru (for example) and send it straight to never-never land?
Too bad there isn’t a true Spam punishment for such types. Be forced to eat Spam morning, noon, and night, for the next 10 years. Nothing else, just Spam. By the time they get through with the 10 years, their internal plumbing won’t be able to handle any vegetable matter. Serves ’em right!
Joe, I like Spam, sometimes. Not as a steady diet however.
Here C.J. You may be needing this 😉
http://translation.babylon.com/romanian/
From what I gather, Spam is big in South America, too. Then of course, there’s Monty Python’s, “Spamalot”, where it’s served every day.
groannnnn.
I like Spam with ketchup. I like Spam with pineapple. I do not like Spam with both pineapple and ketchup. I most assuredly do not like Spam with silicon, for it is then sandy and styrofoam-y.
Easy solution to counter the pirates: (1) Buy from Closed Circle. (2) Acquaint the pirates with the airlock…or the mass converter…or the wonders of the vastness of space. (3) If this doesn’t convince ’em, have the kif, knnn, or the beings from Voyager in Night invite the pirates over for dinner. Invite the Dinner too. One way or another, there’ll be no further problems with pirates.
Now, in general, a person of a piratical bent might be rather welcome. However, it is important for a rogue to have manners and taste, to deal well with others, in order to make a profit in his/her piratical trade, or else business will be quite unprofitable and brief. One does not steal from a skilled captain such as Herself.
On second thought, just sic the starship’s cat after the pirates. Have they not heard what the Solar Queen’s cat can do? Or the brave cat with Lt. Ripley? If a starship’s cat can hunt down dangerous alien critters and keep out of reach of Alien biomechanoids, surely such a cat is a mighty sharp critter indeed.
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Spammers need to be forced to listen to the Spam Song ad infinitum!
Green eggs and Spam?
@BlueCatShip…The first paragraph of your post needs a tune. 😆