We're trying to deliver a package to you...

I get several a week - but they are not through gmail...they are text messages on y phone.


On a local small town FB page last week I read that many local people believe these spammers. They talked about 'clicking the link because I knew I had a package coming soon'.


Hard to believe even now people are still so gullible to scams like this but it seems they are. On the upside - I haven't had an offer from a Nigerian Prince for several years now....that check has been in the mail for a looooong time.

I didn't know anything about these changes...

but I got an email today that said:

Google is changing the Rules to this Email GAME we play starting February 1, 2024

​Are You Ready?

​XXXXXXXXX member + email deliverability expert XXXXXXXX is holding a Special Session on Saturday, Nov 11th at 1pm PT / 4pm ET where she will break it all down and provide actionable steps, so you walk away knowing not just what's changing, but how to best prepare.

​Who is this for?

* Business owners - sending commercial emails on behalf of your own business

* Agency owners - providing email marketing services for your clients

* SaaS / Email Service Providers - providing software accounts for business owners who send business related emails for themselves and/or their clients

was from a pretty well known IM.

I was like 'wut?' what's wrong with this new policy?

Back to your comment about crazy emails...

I think the funniest one I've ever seen was about a Nigerian Astronaut who was stuck in space and needed 3 million dollars to get back home.

It was a real email that some actually fell for

Added: It was so popular that Snopes covered it:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ni...lost-in-space/

....wonder what he's selling?

Back in the day, compulsive front-facin' deployment of the passive voice meant you was sum kinda SLAVE.

So it is momentously consequential when the big guys misappropriate all ovah an still slip up.

So you gotta figure always lofts beyond mortal probability vs actchswl breath.

Don't wanna sound hoppertyoonistickally snarksy, but so mucha the dialog happnin' rn cross sales, tech, lifestyles, politics, an' plz how can I cryogenically pruzzerve muh GRAYNOLDMA aheada alla the othah schmucks, lacks the immediacy of momentum you can kinda kiss.

Leapsiliciousness counts always -- yeah, but the FOR & 'GAINST scores're mostly directshnwl.

On my GMails, most of the spams I receive are from people
submitting pitches on my WordPress sites contact forms, but
all of those go to my spam folder, which I delete periodically.

There are other types of spam as well, I usually look through
my spam folder to check if there is anything relevant to be
moved to my inbox before I delete things.

Package notifications are something you subscribe to, so
if you are getting notices for things you didn't order from
shipping companies that don't exist, just delete them.

My Yahoo and Hotmail don't get much spam at all, so that
shows the corporations are capable of controlling junk.

Anyone falling for Nigerian prince scams should not be
allowed to use a computer anymore. I am sick of hearing
about dimwits sending their life savings to someone they
never even met, who professed to love them or some
other nonsense.

Humans are supposed to evolve and get smarter, not
the other way around.

When I receive spam mails, I just delete, delete, delete, delete.

Tellya, I gaht an offah las' week said


Yeah, like I gaht 4 titties.

Make 'em free, you wanna -- I ain't wearin' the fkrs.

Thing is, scams play always to our desire for regularity.

How do we know this?

Bcs if'n they look WEIRDSY, we diss 'em on sight bcs SPIDEYWEIRDSY SENSE.

So what may skew our perception scammahward?

1) Personal travail may lowah our bar.

2) Scammah random may accidentally hit our susceptibility specifics. You don't require 100% accuracy when you gaht the numbahs.

3) We been asleep at the wheel.

4) We forgaht all external levels up figure second to our own procreative growth (on the undahstandin' that plenty ego-feedin' stuffs from beyond rendah any kinda preocreation stuffs DEAD DEAD DEAD.)

5) The guy down the hall no longah ignores you. No, waitaminute -- that is the starta the Zaaahmbie Apocalypse.

Thing is, we all jus' wanna be natchrly happnin' people without no requirement we cock our ears anyplace othah than SLEEEEP at 3 evry mornin'.

Jus' gotta hope this empowahs us to persist supah regulahah than vampire zaaahmbies spend evry vailbyool moment in torment tryin' to figure how to rip evrywan off.

Be proactive in deleting spam emails

The more proactive you are the more you "TRAIN" gmail's AI to better filter spam

I'm using Thunderbird. If an email is marked as spam there, it doesn't go to my Inbox account anymore. I thought that everybody does that...

I get these now by SMS too. Hopefully they crack down on these soon.

You cannot avoid these. If they are handled today in some way, these will turn up tomorrow in some other shape and form.


The best way is to learn how to ignore these and keep living. That's all.

I also get these emails a few times per month.

I just delete them right away. I don't even open the email itself.

Thunderbird's built-in spam filter deletes them automatically. Just train it on a dozen of them.