mouss wrote: > Matt Kettler wrote: >> >> Why anyone in Guatemala thinks I'll visit their store to spend "Q. 22" >> on a >> patio log fake fire log or "Q. 85" on a generic brand weed and feed >> fertilizer >> is beyond me. >> > > dunno, but I can tell you that the net if full of people who love me and > want me good. I keep winning all the lotteries. I can buy software at > cheap prices (if someone can tell these guys that I have nor the time > nor the need to use photoshop, that I already have windows+office, ... > etc, that may save them some time/resources they can spend helping me in > other areas:). others seems to need an urgent contact for an important > relationship. I'm feeling like the ceo of a large company. Some even > seem to know private infos about me. It seems I need some special pills. > but for now, the names of the pills seem to change all the time. I'll > wait until they get an agreement on how to name them:). They also keep > talking about inches. if someone can tell them that we use the metric > system here, I would be grateful...
Yeah, but all those actually have some chance of financial gain from someone located in another country. You'd have to be stupid, but it's possible, because all of those can close an electronic transaction with you. These spams I get from .gt don't offer any kind of online ordering. They are ads that you'd have to physically travel to the store in Guatemala to take advantage of them. They're ordinary weekly sales fliers for an ordinary local store that's so small that only 6 cars can park in front of it. (They have pictures of the store in some of them). Delivered to my mailbox as 1/2 meg .jpg files. It's really quite bizarre, and amusing. Here's one, if you want to see it: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mkettler/spam.jpg There's pretty close to zero chance that anyone in the US is going to hop on a plane and fly to Guatemala to buy ordinary lawn care products from a small store. But that's the kind of ads I'm getting.
