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I got one of each of the following today
- One with the obligatory suspicious file attachment, and the subject line of "Build Assemblies"...
- From "NYC National Lotto" declaring that my email address was randomly selected and I won $5.2 million. No file attachment, but wanted some personal info.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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So presumably you forwarded the attachment from the first to the address from the second, with a message telling them your info was attached? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Evil! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I hadn't thought of that, but I will certainly try it. Usually, I can't respond to these kinds of emails.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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What a Superb idea.
Having his drives encrypted may well dissuade scammers from repeating their tricks.
I shall start saving the e-mails.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: I shall start saving the e-mails.
I'm doing the same, and feeling so delightfully wicked! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 11-May-16 19:25pm.
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We should all do it. It could lead to the death of the "unsavvy" spammers and thieves, who just download or copy malware, thinking it will make them rich.
We'll still have to worry about the guys who know their way around a computer, but we'd have to worry about that anyway.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Done!!!
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I got the Build Assemblies one too.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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How thick (or blind with greed) do you have to be to believe you won a good prize in a raffle / lottery that you never entered? 
I'm tempted to say that spammers here are doing the species a favour by impoverishing the stupid to the point where they are unlikely to breed... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sorry, but lack of funds does not stop people from having children.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Not directly - but it does reduce the number of willing partners!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not at all. As evidence, I submit the current welfare recipients in the US that profess to have more babies to increase the amount they receive from the state.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Also impoverished people are quite willing to breed with other impoverished people.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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What else are they gonna do? They won't/can't/don't work for a living...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yeesh, I hate it when people put out statements about things like that.
Did you know that the cost to the country of the people you're talking about is equivalent to about nine "smart bombs"?
But there's always plenty of money to pay for bombs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That has nothing to do with people exploiting the system. Welfare is supposed to be temporary, not a life decision.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Sure, but the ones who (in English, we say "take the piss") exploit the system cost less than peanuts, compared to every other expense of government -- the amount of time and money spent on discussing and attacking them exceeds what they cost by an order of magnitude.
Just let 'em get on with it. They'll be happier (living a life that suits their sensibilities, but you and I would never want to live), and you'll be happier (without the stress of getting angry about something that costs virtually nothing). Everyone wins.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: n English, we say
Ha!
That wasn't a dig!
I haven't lived in the UK for over fifteen years, so saying "in English, we say" has become something of a habit.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Give 'em an inch...
I have a zero-tolerance outlook on a lot of things. I do it right, and I think everyone else should, too.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's the problem.
Not everyone is wired like us, and able to get the "9 to 5" mentality, where you work for whatever hours to build a life according to the tenets of the society we believe in.
Their way wouldn't work for me -- get up at 10, play with the kids, do whatever, do some more whatever, etc, but I have to accept that the society we live in was imposed on us, and we live according to its structures because we were brought up to do so.
I mean, I'm a contractor, and you've had at least three jobs, since I've known you, so we both know what being unemployed is like, and I'm pretty sure that you hate it as much as I do, but not everyone's brain is wired the same way as ours are, and I'm not sure we should treat them badly because of it.
After all, if you're not wired up to live the way our current society demands, WTF can you do? If the only way to make a living is to follow the rules that you and I are happy with, then people that aren't happy with that are pretty much screwed, and can only sink to the bottom (of Our society).
As to whether our way of living or theirs is right, there's no answer, because there is no right; there's only "live until you die", and if that means "treat people who don't want to live the same life you live like cr@p", then I'll go for option F.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: From "NYC National Lotto" declaring that my email address was randomly selected and I won $5.2 million. No file attachment, but wanted some personal info.
Send this back:
Sir,
I am so exicted to learn that I have won. Since you already have my email, please keep the $200,000 and send me a cashiers check for the remaining $5 million.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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i got one pertaining to be Itunes about my netflix subscription. I hovered over the link to see if it was from apple it was not! It looked like Itunes, but it came to the the wrong email not my email associated with Itunes!!
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