328: Gross Out

[paul_r]

Originally Posted by bren

Where can I buy this VIII@@@GR-A ??

send me $1000 and i'll send you some herbal VIII@@@GR-A

[paul_r]

Originally Posted by john le fucker

hey have any of you heard of the new blood-sport: Spambaiting



This one is freekin' cool. The baiter got one of the Lads from Lagos to tattoo himself.

This one got a spammer to carve him a Commador 64.

This one set up a fake company, Anus Laptops (Asus) and got an international to pay for the delivery of a 200lbs Air Conditioner from the US to South Africa.

i've replied to a few of them, they do reply. still waiting for my treasure map...

[jwdd27]

Great show, as always on a Thursday.

I usually just smile or give a little giggle when I find something funny (which is all the time of course).
But Patrice made me properly laugh out loud, causing other people on the street to think I was mentally ill, when she reminded me of Gary Coleman sat on that car, in his child's size security uniform, arms folded, with his bottom lip stuck out just like Arnold.
It was actually pretty cruel of those guys to turn up with a camera and bait him like that, but it was funny - he's SO TINY, which was the whole point of his role in Diff'rent Strokes, and he looked so stoopid on the car. But he scored a Simpsons episode out of it, so it wasn't all bad for him. AND he did say his catchphrase in that show.

As for Screech - fuck him - I've watched about 1 episode of Saved by the Bell, and it was annoying shit, mainly because of him. You're an adult now, deal with it.
And Keith was right, WHAT A PUSSY. Even if it's a girl, when she's just robbed you, do what you have to do. I'd go along with Keith's "Kick her in the stomach" and "Punch her in the face" and then steal her money.

This is quite a long post, I'll go now. Love the show.
PEACE

[paul_r]

Originally Posted by jwdd27

But Patrice made me properly laugh out loud, causing other people on the street to think I was mentally ill, when she reminded me of Gary Coleman sat on that car, in his child's size security uniform, arms folded, with his bottom lip stuck out just like Arnold.

has anyone found a video of this?

[ChitownMacTech]

Howard Stern once had on one of those spam company reps who sends those penis enlargement cream e-mails out and the guy said that they get something like a 9% click-thru rate on those mass e-mails and of that 9% more than half ordered the cream (in the anonymous solicitation industry, like telemarketing, a 2% return is considered great).

People think no one is stupid enough to click those damn things, but as it turns out, if you send out 1,000,000 random e-mails advertising your snake oil, odds are 90,000 people will come to your web site and 45,000 of those will buy your shit.

WTF is wrong with people?

Oh also, never "un-subscribe" from spam you didn't setup to receive in the first place. All that does is put your e-mail address on the "golden" list because now the spammer knows there is a live person on the other end and they can then sell your address for 10 times more because you've now confirmed it works.

edited to fix my math... thanks jwdd27

[jwdd27]

Originally Posted by ChitownMacTech

Howard Stern once had on one of those spam company reps who sends those penis enlargement cream e-mails out and the guy said that they get something like a 9% click-thru rate on those mass e-mails and of that 9% more than half ordered the cream (in the anonymous solicitation industry, like telemarketing, a 2% return is considered great).

People think no one is stupid enough to click those damn things, but as it turns out, if you send out 1,000,000 random e-mails advertising your snake oil, odds are 9,000 people will come to your web site and 4,500 of those will buy your shit.

I hate to be pedantic (Actually no, I LOVE it), but 9% of 1,000,000 is 90,000.

This spam works on the same principle as junk mail - the mailings I've been involved in only needed a 2.5% take-up rate to make a profit.

[quauth]

may be off topic, but just listening to this episode, didn't see anything about keith's impression of robin williams, but...

keith. best robin williams i've heard. if the podcast gig doesn't work out, you've got screech beat to shit. just tour the country with a fo'ty in yer hand, and do your robin.

[william]

I spent a year corresponding with a Nigerian scammer where I attempted to scam the scammer.

I created various back-stabbing characters, a senile, murderess muli-millionaire and his young girlfriend, introduced Viagra, the DeBeers diamond cartel, homosexual liaisons, diseases.... and ultimately tried to get him to send me money.

Its not ready for prime time, so If you've got the patience or just want to peruse the effort, here's a temporary link to the saga

www.chemdaandtheboy.com (and no its not meatspin)

It might be fun if someone here would initiate a similar dialog with a spammer and then a few of us can join in.

[Shawn]

Speaking of Beyonce, I think she and Patrice are on the same diet.