ditzchic Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 Sorry but I need to rant. I dated a guy for a couple of months about 4 months ago and I've been NC with the dude for about 3.5 months. I'm still totally hung up on him and it's a daily struggle to keep him out of my head. I tried in the 1st two weeks to get him to talk to me and I was completely ignored so I went cold turkey. About 2 months ago he started commenting on my fb posts so I unfriended him. I know I'm not able to be "just friends" with him so I'm not even going to pretend to try. So today my e-mail account was phished and everyone in my contacts was being sent spam e-mail. Very clearly spam. It was click here to make money and penis enlargement type stuff. Now this guy works in IT and is a total internet nerd. He knew what was going on. He responded to one of the e-mails with just a "....". So I responded to that and said "Sorry. I was phished. All better now. No free money or penis enhancing to be had here." He replies to that with a "That's a shame. I was hoping to get a free sample of some penis enhancing pills." So I responded again and said "Google should be able to help you out with that." I've heard nothing back from him since that and I'm kind of glad because I know where that train goes and it's straight to crazytown. I'm perfectly fine here. But now I find him in my head all night tonight. Why. Why. WHY would someone feel the need to respond to a spam e-mail?!?! This dude just loves to keep reminding me that he's around. I just don't get it. If you're not interested, you're not interested. Please leave me be. Y'all feel me?
Eternal Sunshine Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 There is a lot of gray area between "absolutely interested" and "absolutely not interested". Also, some people enjoy pushing your buttons for an ego stroke.
SincereOnlineGuy Posted December 8, 2011 Posted December 8, 2011 Why. Why. WHY would someone feel the need to respond to a spam e-mail?!?! This dude just loves to keep reminding me that he's around. I just don't get it. If you're not interested, you're not interested. Please leave me be. Y'all feel me? You're either wrong in your position, or you didn't describe your position accurately. IF, say, some mysterious link was sent to me from one of my 'friends', and I made the mistake of clicking-on that link before verifying its authenticity, THEN the worm/virus/spam-thingy would in turn send itself to everybody in my address book. IF NOBODY bothered to reply to tell me I had this going on... THEN I would never know to delete all the addresses there and/or get rid of the bug. IF in addition to his "....." , you could plainly see that your e-mail addy had sent HIM some unprovoked correspondence, then you would have known to do something about it. Don't forget HE, upon seeing your return e-mail addy, was probably going on and on about your not taking a hint. In any case, you e-mailed first, whether on purpose or by complete accident. It would be common courtesy by anyone to get you to effectively stop sending repeated spam messages (and dangerous links) to all of your so-called "friends".
snug.bunny Posted December 8, 2011 Posted December 8, 2011 This happened to me with my Dad. I responded back not knowing and when I talked to him a few days later I asked him what was it he was trying to email, and he said he didn't email me so by that point I knew it was spam. Then I started getting random ones from different people here and there, but I knew it was spam then so I deleted it. I think it is just one of those flukey things that you should try not to read into. The accounts that they are being sent out of, the owner may not even be aware that the spam emails are going out (my father didn't until I asked him about it) so make sure you report the phishing to your email provider and/or update your security settings.
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