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What is the purpose of girlie Spam Emails?

I get, every day, many emails that all say the same kind of thing:

"...hi sweetie

I can send you some nude pictures of me, I`m hot 22 yo girl :)

please drop me a line at sally03@freemailtoday.ru ..."

There is no link to a drugs site (the usual scam) and if I reply (which I have done a couple of times to see what happens) I hear nothing further. Why is someone wasting time sending this kind of Spam message when they seem to be deriving no benefit?

My only guess is that someone is harvesting addresses by checking to see whether anyone answers - but I would have thought there were better ways than this to find out good email addresses.

Update:

I should have mentioned - these emails are always identical, word for word, with only the name and the reply address being different. They all arrived in my business email address, which address appears on my website. My guess is that it's a spambot - but my questions is - what is the point of the exercise?

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  • 9 years ago
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    I just love the way your questions comes up as "First asked in the USA...." and the first thing you did wrong was to reply to one. That way they knew your account was active hence you get a load of them. I'm surprised that someone of your age and experience ever fell for it in the first place ! All you've got to do now is next time one comes through mark it as spam and any others will go straight into your spam box and you'll never know you had them until you want to have a clear-out of unwanted messages etc.

  • 9 years ago

    My guess would be that someone is getting you back for your constant posting of the same "you've posted in the wrong section" rubbish on here.

    Either that or it's, as you suggest, a spambot thart has harvested your e-mail from the web (that's what you get for using proper e-mails, instead of throwaway ones, on the web)

  • 9 years ago

    Probably because someone's really bored.

    Or else s/he is harvesting addresses but is an amateur or doesn't have access to other ways.

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