by cosmicB on Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:41 am
In dealing with new scam emails...
I can't stress this enough...
Sometimes those scam mails contain computer damaging bugs.. which really makes no sense, for those scammer idiots to damage the computers of those they are trying to scam for money via computer... But it sort of makes sense too, given that they are pretty much just all mindless bottom feeders in the first place... I bet they are their worst enemies... I bet if they had sharp pointy swords, they would entertain themselves by poking holes in their feet with the swords, just to pass the time, and to have a little fun...
I don't have an email account setup in this computer... If I did I would probably be formating-C every couple weeks... I use Yahoo and Fastmail freebie email accounts... I prefer Fastmail...
When I get a suspect email, seemingly from a reputable business source, asking for my assistance, or offering me money, or a credit, or I won something... I simply copy their email address, go to the top of the SeaMonkey Browser, click on "new browser window", or "new tab", and paste-it into the Google search box, adding "scam" after the paste.. and search-it... The searches always come up with a list of money sucking scams associated with those email addresses... Then I simply delete the email without having opened it...
All the rest of the emails I don't recognize as friendlies, I either delete right off, or open them only in this clunker old iMac, sitting under the desk, here just for that purpose... I find that firewalls and AVS's just take up too much RAM... They make my PC run like a turtle on its back... If this PC is gonna take a hit, it's gonna take a hit.. those waste of memory firewalls and AVS's have never stopped a hit.. nor could they fix them... But every once in a while my PC does get stung by a bully's bug, and there I am pulling out the infected hd, and plugging in a new pre-loaded one... Their bullying sets me back about five minutes... and when I have some spare time, I format and reload those polluted infected hd's with this little handful of CD's, with all my downloads on them... The secret is to forever religiously make backup CD copies of all the files and pix and treasures... Me thinks there is no way to deal out the bullies.. they infect every walk of Life, like skin-cancers and flu-viruses do... so why bother trying..? If we create an Internet police force, we will be paying for it by paying an ever increasing fee per emails... that the political parasites will latch onto, and be sucking at our wallets yet another way... It's best we be our own security, by being awake, and running on all thrusters, when we are using the Internet...
Building an Internet Police Force would be like what I experienced one Sunday, while I was riding my motor cycle through a upscale residential subdivision, in search of garage-sale treasures... It was 8:AM, not a single other vehicle in sight, except an old Mercedes, parked in front of a house... I leasurely turned the corner into that subdivision, sipping my coffee, a cigarette in the other hand... My bike just a little bit noisy... and I turns again, to note that the old mercedes is now following me... The old guy is yelling at me, and beeping his horn... I try to ignore him.. but he persists, so I slows enough to let him pass... He doesn't pass... I stops at a garage sale... The old guy gets out of his Mercedes, and walks a few paces toward me, and says, "You Didn't Signal Your Turn!.. I've Got your license number, and I Am going to Report you to the Police!.. He says it three times.. then he drives away...
I walks up to the garage sale, and one of the hagerty old babes there, says, "You've left your engine running!.. That's illegal in this part of the country's laws... The law is there to prevent people from stealing vehicles.. I could report you!.. blah blah blah"... I turned away from that garage sale, gets back on the bike, and drives away.. wondering, "Is this a residential subdivision, or did I just accidentally drive onto the grounds of a mental institution..?"
Trying to police the Internet would bring all kinds into the equation, like those two crazies, into the authoritative picture, and the Internet would quickly progressively turn to absolute sewage...
If your computer gets Stung, it's because you were foolish, stupid, careless, and/or lazy... Fix-it, and Wise-up!.. Take some responsibility for what you do... Or you can just go call the police on me becuz sometimes I don't signal my turns... and becuz sometimes I spell "because" wrongly... and I have been known rub my eyes when they're itchy... but the becuz-cops, and the "itchy-eye cops" haven't caught me doing it, yet... I guess I've just been lucky.. but they caught the neighbor doing it, and they untied his belly button, and his bum fell off...
Or you can complain a lot, about Internet crime.. forcing the authorities to implement an Internet Police Force.. and to pay for it, one day soon you and everybody gets to pay per email, and for blogs, like we pay for postage stamps and theater admissions... Ironically just as postage stamps and theater admissions are going obsolete...
Do you want to pay per email?.. I sure don't!..
You know darn well that an Internet police force won't be able to stop the internet crime..
Heck!.. all the police forces in the world can't even dent the crime that's happening in the world today.. and in a lot of cases, the police forces are part of the crimes... They're just real good at hiding it, and at covering up their messes...
Lets work together to keep this a free Internet...
Lets not awaken the hungry parasites...
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I hope that you copy this post, and send it all over the Internet...
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cosmicB on Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:06 am, edited 1 time in total.
