Google Spam Box

Here's a trick you can play on someone you don't like. But make sure that you really don't like them and make sure they can't figure out it was you.....

Take their name, address, e-mail address, and home phone number. Go on sites for life insurance quotes, payday loans, auto loans and quotes, moving companies, even in-home blind consultations. Anything you can think of. Copy and paste the person's contact info in, requesting more information. Giggle....they're screwed.

Near as I can tell, that's what happened to me. Either one of y'all out there don't like me (understandable at times), or (and I'm secretly hoping this is the case) some kid just hacked a company mailing list and started pranking everyone on it. A couple months have passed, and it doesn't look like any ID theft or anything. First, why would they alert me like that? Second, I've checked my credit and put an alert on my account. Third, they apparently didn't have my SSN or birthday based on what they entered for life insurance.

The phone calls have pretty much stopped finally, as they were almost all legit businesses trying to follow up a lead. But my SPAM filter on my gmail account has exploded. At least it seems to work. I used to average around 400-500, as any over 30 days automatically were deleted. You can see where I'm at now. I'm waiting to hit 5000, but I though 4444 was a pretty cool number.

Dave