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"My Hotmail conspiracy theory"

Having recieved 300+ junk mails in the last few days i have come to the conclusion that the spam, doesn't come from sad little gits with nothing better to do than email every address under the sun about farm animals being raped, or dirty lesbians and the likes. I have concluded that 90% of this crap comes from.............microsoft itself. When you think about it, it makes perfect sense, the second you have loads of junkmail, you are hit with a message from hotmail telling you that your account is full and that "you should upgrade to a paying 10mb account" as messages are being returned to the senders and you don't have enough room in your account. I have decided that it is a cunning plan from Microsoft to try and get your £20 a year which most people can't be bothered to pay.

Having recieved 300+ junk mails in the last few days i have come to the conclusion that the spam, doesn't come from sad little gits with nothing better to do than email every address under the sun about farm animals being raped, or dirty lesbians and the likes. I have concluded that 90% of this crap comes from.............microsoft itself. When you think about it, it makes perfect sense, the second you have loads of junkmail, you are hit with a message from hotmail telling you that your account is full and that "you should upgrade to a paying 10mb account" as messages are being returned to the senders and you don't have enough room in your account. I have decided that it is a cunning plan from Microsoft to try and get your £20 a year which most people can't be bothered to pay.

Why does everyone say they get junk mail on Hotmail? I've had Hotmail for many years and I haven't had junk mail. I don't even have my junk mail filter on.

Ashley wrote:
> Having recieved 300+ junk mails in the last few days i have come to
> the conclusion that the spam, doesn't come from sad little gits with
> nothing better to do than email every address under the sun about farm
> animals being raped, or dirty lesbians and the likes. I have concluded
> that 90% of this crap comes from.............microsoft itself. When
> you think about it, it makes perfect sense, the second you have loads
> of junkmail, you are hit with a message from hotmail telling you that
> your account is full and that "you should upgrade to a paying
> 10mb account" as messages are being returned to the senders and
> you don't have enough room in your account. I have decided that it is
> a cunning plan from Microsoft to try and get your £20 a year
> which most people can't be bothered to pay.


i read somewhere that microsoft got done as there .net passport crap was selling the e-mail addy's to whoever wanted them.

some *bad word for not very nice* was sending me junk of 315k an e-mail!!

and i get a load of trash in korean?

Grandprix wrote:
> Why does everyone say they get junk mail on Hotmail? I've had Hotmail
> for many years and I haven't had junk mail. I don't even have my junk
> mail filter on.

ive got a few accounts. 1 gets about 80 a day. One gets about 3 a day, and one gets about 20 a day. Its a bit random. also the more obscure you name the less likely you are to get them.

That would explain it then.

Thing is, what do you expect for a free email service..?

Ya gets what ya pays for.

Ashley wrote:
>also the more obscure
> you name the less likely you are to get them.

What kinda spam do you reckon you get if you have an email address like

[email protected]

or

[email protected]

Anyone ever read any of the mails. I bet they dont even have anything in them. I mean, its not that ive ever looked at them... ahahahahaaaaa aaa.

It might not be that microsoft is sending them, but just not doing anything about it. You can imagine this tiny little computer world which is kind of like an airport. And all these really dodgey people are walking passed this one inept microsoft guard. The guards watching the xray machine and not giving a crap cos he knows he'll be able to sell loads of crappy features to idiots that get annoyed with junk mail.

"Gun... Porn... Horse...porn...severed head... gun.....horse....cat.." he would say as whole folders worth of junk mail slowly pass by his eyes.


just try and imagine./

I USED to get these emails...until I turned of my Junk Mail filter, Now, I don't get these emails, post my address on the forums with ease and rarely have to check my inbox! Wahoo, all i get is viruses *dances*

I have never had any junk mail in my hotmail account, or in my Yahoo and Talk21 Accounts for that matter. In fact, I just don't ever get any junk mail. Aren't I lucky :)