*incoherent screaming*
Dec. 9th, 2022 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenEarlier today I was going through my email and spam started pouring in. Ten, twenty messages at a time. Hundreds. Holy shit.
I assumed someone had my email address - obviously - but Fox wondered if I'd made someone angry and this was their revenge. I couldn't honestly think of anyone, but at the same time, I started logging into my various bank and credit card accounts. Sometimes my paranoia pays off, because I quickly found the charge for a new laptop I hadn't bought. The spam was intended to cover the "thank you for your order" email, which I found using keywords from the credit card charge.
Fox called up the laptop people, and I called my credit card, and within about half an hour, I'd closed out my account, and he'd cancelled the computer purchase. I also had the great satisfaction of receiving the "your order has been canceled" emails. In all there were over 600 different spam emails, thanking me for signing up for newsletters, etc. I've got a filter on Gmail handling most of it.
So, Kenneth Rumph of Orlando, go eat a bag of dicks. I hope someone catches you red handed. I did NOT want to spend my day putting out these fires and changing a bunch of passwords and shit like that. But I'm very glad that this didn't happen tomorrow when I'm trying to run. The last thing I need is to be 30k into that race and suddenly my phone starts going BONG
BONG
BONG BONG
BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG
It also threw my brain completely off today, so after dealing with that I showered and have just been lying here reading "Silence In the Age of Noise" by Erling Kagge. Kagge is considered one of the greatest living explorers, having gone to both the North and South Poles on foot, as well as climbing Everest. Sounds like a great job, huh?
I assumed someone had my email address - obviously - but Fox wondered if I'd made someone angry and this was their revenge. I couldn't honestly think of anyone, but at the same time, I started logging into my various bank and credit card accounts. Sometimes my paranoia pays off, because I quickly found the charge for a new laptop I hadn't bought. The spam was intended to cover the "thank you for your order" email, which I found using keywords from the credit card charge.
Fox called up the laptop people, and I called my credit card, and within about half an hour, I'd closed out my account, and he'd cancelled the computer purchase. I also had the great satisfaction of receiving the "your order has been canceled" emails. In all there were over 600 different spam emails, thanking me for signing up for newsletters, etc. I've got a filter on Gmail handling most of it.
So, Kenneth Rumph of Orlando, go eat a bag of dicks. I hope someone catches you red handed. I did NOT want to spend my day putting out these fires and changing a bunch of passwords and shit like that. But I'm very glad that this didn't happen tomorrow when I'm trying to run. The last thing I need is to be 30k into that race and suddenly my phone starts going BONG
BONG
BONG BONG
BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG
It also threw my brain completely off today, so after dealing with that I showered and have just been lying here reading "Silence In the Age of Noise" by Erling Kagge. Kagge is considered one of the greatest living explorers, having gone to both the North and South Poles on foot, as well as climbing Everest. Sounds like a great job, huh?
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Date: 2022-12-10 12:54 pm (UTC)Congrats on being victorious in battle and good luck tomorrow!
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Date: 2022-12-10 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-10 10:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-14 04:27 am (UTC)I have often been advised I should make separate folders for official stuff, bills, and regular email. I see one more reason to do that now, because in that case the "serious business" folder will have 1 new email and the other 599 will be in the "general" folder.