#470 – Boo
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
When I was a kid “junk mail” was the problem. Now mail in general has slowed to a trickle. Then spam email tried to overwhelm me. Now weeks go by without a single spam message making it through the filter. I wonder what the next spam frontier will be.
Tags: boner, ghosts, pills
My workplace still receives spam faxes, multiple per day. I sometimes wonder if these spammers are as old as the technology they choose to employ. Certainly, young, hip spammers are more up-to-date on their choice of vehicle for a good spam. Do fax spammers also beeper spam?
I wish spam was like old school junk mail, I occasionally got a good catalog out of it. Now, instead of junk mail, I’m avoiding mail about my junk.
The next frontier: spam text messages
Even though both landline and cell are on the do not call list I get multiple calls for home security services and interest rate reduction. This qualifies as spam.
If you’re not getting spam text messages then consider yourself lucky. They go through waves and sometimes I’ll go for weeks without one and then BLAM; 2-3 a day for a couple weeks straight.
And it’s my work phone too, so who even has my number?
Grr. Welcome to the future.
WE BUY JUNK CARS!!
(is usually what they are)
A list of what kinds of spam I’ve received:
Text, fax, email, snail-mail, beeper (yes. When I had a beeper many years ago), cell phone, land line, and car flyers. I even had one put a sign in my yard.
I actually enjoy getting spam. It’s so much fun to track these guys down and mess with them, like get all their info and sign them up for spam and remove them from the “do not call” list.
Whoah! Don’t mess with jammit!
Love it! I used to empty the pencil sharpener into the Business Reply (prepaid) envelopes, with the torn-up form (Let Us Sell You Some Debt! at only 29.99% APR, for example), so some poor schmuck in the mailroom would get a deskfull. Harder to do with email, tho…
I think dealing with email spammers would be an excellent reuse of our fleet of Predator drones.
That’s funny.
But I also gotta admit, I misinterpreted that. I thought it was a ghostly was of his grandpa saying “Never use free boner pills,” suggesting that’s what killed him