A little investigative work.. Really, I mean work!

Warning: this is intended to be a sarcastically humorous post, but it back fired when I decided that revenge is very sweet.. oh so sweet.. like pure chocolate fudge.. hmmm!

A 102, 54, 89, 78, 54, 76 little annoying spam emails that I received this afternoon within a 4 or 5 hour time span. You can say that I should thank the almighty Lord that Gmail got a spam filter. However, I have noticed that the numbers have been drastically increasing, and a lot of those are not being caught by the spam filter, and are very dirty and horny. Don’t those spammers feel a bit ashamed to write out an email to enhance their you know, heart rate? This is my personal Gmail account people!! I am a little, how can I sugar coat this, TICKED OFF! The only way that I would get that much spam within a 4 or 5 hour time spam is if my email is publicly displayed online. With the entire @gmail.com and a href=mailto: link in big fat bolded letters on a site that gets a lot of unnecessary junk.

I have displayed my entire Gmail for my blog on here, but no actual mailto hyperlink, which many of you can easily guess or know. However, I don’t even get that much spam at all on it. Maybe 10 – 15 a day, that’s it. Well, that is not including the spam I get from visitors who ask me weird ass questions, like 5 minutes ago, I received an email that said, “Sarching for true love.” I read it and I was gonna reply with something nasty, but how nasty can I get today? I don’t want to take out my inner anger on this poor fellow. He couldn’t spell searching, and he thinks he can find true love by emailing a blogger girl that goes by the name Rebellious Arab Girl. How absurd!!

Back to my ranting and trying to solve this exponentially increasing amount of spam on my personal Gmail account. One thing I learned while studying Computer Science in University, that investigative technical thinking or searching for the easy ass solution, is so DAMN FUN! So, I decided that maybe I should do the simple thing first, and see who they are addressing the emails to, because I have 3 or 4 other email accounts that I forward to that private Gmail address. Surprisingly, many of the spam emails were directly sent to my Gmail account, and not to any forwarded emails. And no, I don’t use my private emails to sign up on stupid sites or anything. I know where I use it, and what emails I am getting from human beings!

So, I thought and thought some more. I tried to use any left over technically related thought I had regarding emails and came back with another simple solution. Why the hell can’t I just search for my email address using Google? So I Googled my entire Gmail account, and to my utter horror, I found it! I found it publicly displayed in the one place that it should not be! It was in my old work profile! How the hell was my private Gmail address displayed on my public ex-work profile? Why wasn’t my work email on there like it was? Before I left, I used the .forward file in my Unix profile account on the server to make sure that any email to my work address is forwarded to my private … Gmail account! SHIT!

It’s a private .forward file that I used to FORWARD any emails, if I got any from some person looking for me at work and didn’t know that I left that place. So, it would get forwarded to my private Gmail account, so I would know.

Ummm, why the hell did I leave that place? Why did I quit my job back in August.. Ahhh.. because they hired an idiot to pretend he was my boss and order me around. I wish he even did order me around, then I would have given him an ounce of respect as a manager. Yet, I ranted enough in the past about how much he didn’t care and is just there to collect a pay cheque, and pretend he knows a few technical terms so he can keep his job.

HOWEVER!!!!! I am not nice. So I went into his work email account to just see if the place was still in operation, and yes it was, and yes, he didn’t change his password till now (been over a year), and I don’t feel guilty at all that I read his emails. So I tried to see what the problem was and why was I getting that much junk. He was getting a lot of junk emails as well, but were unread. It’s like his email box was unread for a while. So I am guessing he is checking his emails through SMTP and keeping them on the server as unread. So, I kept going back and back to try to see when all this started.

Ahh, I then found it. He decided that with whatever money left over, he would make a new separate mail server and web server for the company. Ah.. yeah.. he is stupid. The company is broke, and he wasted his time creating a badly functioning server instead of helping find a way for a powerful company with a great concept to the Canadian public to stay operational. What’s funny, he was getting emails from his co-workers saying they are getting too many spam emails, unlike before when an actual mail filter was installed on the mail server. Like what many System Admins would do you know. . . Just a normal procedure, you know for people who do System Administrative work, you know. It’s like the first thing you would learn in Computer Science. Security! Filtering! It’s like being responsible for lives people! It’s like System Admin for Idiots. They added the idiot part because there are idiots out there! Don’t be surprised, and they are the ones that have jobs.

I don’t have a job, so I am not an idiot.

So, because he was switching over accounts and acting like he gave a shit, he decided to go into my Unix profile page, and instead of just deleting my entire profile and sparing me that much spam after almost nine months of separation from the work place, he decided to go into my hidden .forward file and copy my private Gmail account, and change my email address on my old work profile that is publicly displayed for the world to see. Instead of it being a professional site and keeping professional looking emails on the site, for credibility sake, he did that. Why was it a problem to just copy over my existing empty profile with a .forward file? The server was not hosting 1000’s of people that it couldn’t handle it. Since the server he newly created is the most unsecured thing on earth, and spammers and hackers love to see such servers, the amount of spam that is being sent to emails through this company’s site has been increased 10 million and a half times. Spammer says “Ohh.. they are displaying entire email addresses with href:mailto links. And look, they are even using free public email addresses on there.” SPAM THEM SPAM THEM the spammer say!! The site is not going anywhere, even if the company has no money, someone will keep it up just so the name is still there online.

So how pissed am I? What should I do?

I decided to be democratic with the masses. I have many many many possible solutions to this problem of receiving tasteless spam, but you my readers, my royal readers from all over the world, that helped my blog traffic be a 100 times better than my old work place’s national company ugly site, that I had nothing to do with artistically, should get a voice in the matter and answer the following poll!

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Yeah.. I need to get something to drink to calm me down. Umm, coffee!!

Updated: I am picturing how it would feel like if I hit the return button after writing the Unix command: rm * -R. Just the thought people is beyond amazing!

Blah Blah, Confused, Funny, Idiots, Ranting as usual!, Thank you, Whatever!