A complaint about spam
Marketing people are horrible. Well, not all marketing people… spammers are though. I fight on a weekly and sometimes daily basis to reduce the amount of spam that we receive through our contact forms. We block IPs, catch certain words, and do various things to reduce the spam coming through the form — it’s an ongoing battle that has no end.
You know what’s worse than spammers? The people that click on the links in spam. Those are the people that keep the spammers coming back — if no one ever responded to spam, the spammers would surely stop spamming. but people keep clicking, and buying, and falling for scams. Why on earth would someone send thousands of dollars to some guy in nigeria that they have never met? Those people apparently have too much disposable income.
So I have a new idea to combat spam. If everyone participates, we can rid spam from the world forever. Really. Here’s the idea: anytime you receive spam, and are feeling like you might click on the link and purchase something, come fill out our contact form and we’ll sell you a website, or some SEO. If you feel like you’re about to go to the bank and get a cashiers check and postmark it for Nigeria, just send it to me. I won’t mind. If we all follow this simple plan, the spammers will stop spamming, and I’ll we’ll all be happy.
And we thank you for your support.
tags:spam web software
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