About three days ago I was CC’ed on a spam email. We all know what to do with spam. We ignore it, and it gets auto deleted. The people who were also CC’ed on this spam apparently didn’t know this. Instead they responded to the spam via Reply All. That reply then went to the spammer and was automatically sent to everyone on the CC list. Which, of course, means that they sent their replies to everyone.
300 emails later, I now present to you day three of the Spam Chain Letter. Every line corresponds to an email. Every letter stands for a different sender’s first name and they are marked with numbers to keep them separate.
G0: Stop. Remove me.
A: Pls remove me.
J: Same… get me out of here.
G: Please stop emailing me. You have the wrong person.
H1: I didn’t email you. More likely we have both been hacked .
I: We have all been hacked.
J: Stop. I reported your dumb ass
G1: Hello, are you sure you copied this to an inconvenient email? I have no idea what this refers to.
G2: I’m not even on the list of addresses, so I’m not sure why I’m on this chain. Any tax advice in this e-mail should be considered in the context of the tax services we are providing to you. Preliminary tax advice should not be relied upon and may be insufficient for penalty protection.
H2: Dirty c**ts, I hope they choke to death on a bag of broken glass.
G3: While we are all connected. Are there any horny women in here that could use some company?
C: Yeah where are the horny women??????????
F: If anyone is looking for a solid podcast while we’re all getting spam, might I recommend REDACTED? If you’re into weird Satanic Panic content from the 80s. It’s a hell of a ride (no pun intended).
H4: ?????? What do you want from me ????
G4: I’ve notified the FBI and MI6 as well as a counter-cyber-terrorism mercenary unit to find the scumbag that started this and bring him to justice!!!! In fewer words…. patience people. It will probably die out soon.
B: LOL! Oh my gosh, I just got off work and now im checking my email… The saucy comments, this made my day!!
F1, 4 emails in a row: Not from me!
G5: Why are you continuing to send me emails. Stop
I2: Hey…..I am NOT sending you guys anything. I’m getting strange email as well as you.
I’ve changed my password in hopes that that will help.
I3: I don’t know how anyone on this email chain has gotten my email. I thought these spam messages were over. Please remove me from this scam. Any unauthorized purchases and communications is being reported as fraud.
G2: It’s not coming from me.
F2: Same here. I am in Scotland and getting hammered with this spam.
F: For more Satanic Panic content, listen to my podcast: REDACTED.
C: This podcast stinks.
Original spammer: Fake Paypal Invoice
J: Invoice deez nuts.
F3: My wife and I are volunteers amount over 9 million in over 240 lands -and as a united people in over 1200 languages we assist honest hearted ones who seek a global peace in a the soon to be restored planet earth. Take a look at a few short video clips you can access by going to REDACTED and put in the questions you have about your concerns and questions many have asked like
“Why study the Bible?”
“Why does God permit suffering ?”
“Why did Jesus die?”
If you would like to have regular free assistance in your study of the Bible please don’t hesitate to contact my wife & I or any one of Jehovahs Witnesses…
I2: STOP STOP STOP REPLYING TO THE DAMN EMAIL
J2: I am blocking them
By hitting the arrow
And going to bottom where it say block
I am not sending those emails
H4: Don’t reply to this email any more.
You’re receiving these emails because you’re on a list that belongs to “noreply…@REDACTED.shop”.
Every time “noreply…@REDACTED.shop” receives an email, it automatically BCC’s in thousands of other users like you.
Do not reply any further, and the spam chain will break.
Your email probably hasn’t been hacked, so you don’t need to stress.
K: I don’t know who you are. I’m not sending any email. You’re obviously confused. Stop sending me email or report you to the law enforcement.
G6: if anyone needs a tarot reading, let me know lol.
We could use a tarot reading after that, dear G6. Hehehehe. Happy Monday.
Oh! I’ve got a fun one. Back in the day, when some people didn’t know any better and looked at p*rn at work, one guy was sending his buddy a “video”. His buddy had the same last name that matched names with a distribution list for the entire bank. His video went to EVERYONE. I remember my boss tearing out of his office yelling across the floor to everyone, “Don’t open the link to XYZ email!!”
Needless to say, the original sender was let go so fast, I’m sure his desk chair was left spinning. His buddy claimed total ignorance (ha-right). It’s been office legend for a decade or two…..
These response were funny.
Sadly this has happened a couple of times at work years ago. Someone accidentally sent out a mtg invite to the whole company about – 150K people.
And everyone started responding with “why am I in this mtg”. Followed by “Stop Replying All “
We work at a tech company, mind you.
No funny responses from work people. 😞
Hysterical! Had me in stitches! Sorry for the grief, but it makes for a funny ass post 😉
C’mon Ilona, you know you and Gordon wanted to chime in…what would you have said and which reply would have gotten you?
Boomers and Zoomers are equally perplexed by technology. I don’t know whether that’s hilarious or sad.
owww. yikes. no words….
Hilarious, since it’s not me dealing with it. Sorry you had to!
Laughed until the tears washed all my makeup off. Thank you for sharing this well-edited tribute to the utter absurdity of humanity. 😂
“Reply All” is such a toxic feature that it once took down Microsoft’s *internal email system*.
At the time, corporate culture had a bunch of pompous idjits responding to internal mailing lists with “take me off this list, I’m too far busy to deal with your petty concerns”, but they’d “reply all” so that all the peons who could appreciate it.
Then someone sent a message that cc’d @all. And all the twits reply all-ed–including @all–which triggered another round of petty reply all responses. The “begone, peasant” emails grew exponentially until the Redmond system went to its knees. Mwahahahaha.
Ooooh, two of these, one about something free from Temu and one “from” Shein, arrived at my work address this week…
When I say arrived, my spam filter actually ate the original messages, but one of the other addresses on the list had an autoresponder saying something like “your ticket xyz has been created” – which was the first I saw of both.
But then people started to actually respond quite earnestly to that 😀
lol this reminds me of NHS email-gate from a few years ago.
Some poor sod accidentally emailed the entire NHS.net email list.
This is over 1 million accounts I imagine at least.
Some people replied all to say it was an error and why were they getting an email etc…
IT SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE EMAIL SYSTEM FOR THE NHS FOR DAYS.
We went back to fax machines to send prescriptions, medical records etc…
It was a right pain
Oh my, laughing so hard I’m crying 🤣
Omg. It’s funny, but I’m glad I’m not part of it.
OMG this is hilarious
So worth the effort of sharing! Thanks!!
Ah, Mercury Retrograde strikes again at communications. Be of good cheer all. Mercury goes direct tomorrow August 28. I know I’ll be breaking out the party hats then. It’s been a rough ride this time around.
So sorry you got spammed, but the responses were 🤣
a lot of g.
A former boss did a reply all and sent a photo of him and his girlfriend to ~4000 people. Many of whom forwarded the email to his wife. The divorce judge was not impressed. I used it in my next three companies as an IT training example of a very expensive mistake. Do not reply all, some learn and some don’t.
😂😂😂
A vendor once managed to find the company email address that mailed all staff and send an invoice. All 15,000 of us at that point. Therein began the 2-3 hour ordeal of the people who didn’t get that they shouldn’t respond. 100 or so people saying it wasn’t for their office. 200 or so asking be to dropped off the list. 50 people mocking all the people for responding to all and so on round and round. I think we had over 1,000 emails by the time IT actually shut it down completely.
I’m not sure to this day if it was phishing or an actual vendor who got the wrong email address. It was lesson about not replying all. Also don’t open anything out of the blue that you aren’t excepting and the email language is weird. Even if it is someone you work with. Pick up the phone and call them to confirm it is actually them if you think something is weird. Spoof emails happen all the time.
I am dying here!
Ha! It’s so much funnier when it isn’t happening to you.
Several years ago, I worked for a very large, global corporation. Some poor sap managed to find the (at)everyone email address and sent a legit business email, but to the whole company instead of the small group he was attempting. The same sort of chatter commenced and by the time I woke up the next morning (company was British and the original email came from London), I had more than 5000 emails. My coworker had over 8000. Our IT had to shut down and purge the system to stop it, just like it was an actual DOS attack.
You can bet they put more controls on who could send an email to everyone after that.
Am I the only one wishing to be able to forward the spam to a Liam Neeson Taken-like service that will take care of it all with that signature chilling reply?
Dead 💀🙈😂
i love how several replies are “stop responding to this e-mail.” thay are going against their own advice 😂
lol I had a good laugh at this
so where are all the horny women???
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