Philippine Spamboxes, Second Busiest In Asia
October 11, 2007 · Print This Article
I like spams except those that comes in the email. Just recently, I received 581 spams in around two weeks! Thank God that Gmail has good detection capability. However, there are some who manages to get through, like this one:
HI Ronnie,was at DORAHS place and your name came up.she sends her regards and says she cant wait for your wedding.But we did not agree on that issue.
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UGANDA MARTYRS UNIVERSITY
P.O. Box 5498
Kampala, Uganda
Tel: +256-(0)38-410611
Fax: +256-(0)38-410100
My spambox is constantly plague by offers about computer softwares, sex enhancers, mail failure delivery, and lately, with Paypal phishing emails.
87 percent of Philippine e-mail is spam. Putting the Philippines second to Uzbekistan at 88 percent, in the list of Asian countries with the most spam circulating. This is mostly due to a lot of computer systems that have turned into “spam zombies“.
And that explains it.. grr.
hi Ronnie
I just joined your websights community at bloglog
but when I clicked on the link it directs me here …
LAKETREES,
thanks for bringing it to my attention. there is indeed something wrong with the url redirection. anyway i had it all fixed in mybloglog. thanks. and have a great day kim!
Wow! Really?!
Pero alam mo I constantly check my spam folder pa din. Sometimes mail that isn’t spam end up there.
Offtopic:
There is a tiny smilee in the upper right corner of your blog. Wala lang, cute lang sya hehe…
I think gmail account can get a lot of spams that goes thru my inbox, compared to msn account. I really didn’t care so I just delete them right away.
The ads by Google on this post looks funny, (as if I was signed-in at my gmail, I’d almost clicked it).
Gigi: The tiny smilie is a wordpress thing, it’s an indication that the statistics on Ron’s blog are being tracked. They called it, “Angie”.
GIGI,
ako din from time to time ganyan. may mga legitimate emails na napupunta sa spam. kaya you have to check din before deleting it. pero kapag umabot na ng 500+ gaya nyan, delete all na. hehehe.
K,
i myself got confused as well. i thought im looking at my gmail account. hahaha! im willing to overlook gmail’s occasional mistakes for their pop mail feature.
thanks for the info about angie. i actually don’t know that and was wondering how that smiley appeared in my site. hehehe.
I agree, gmail does have good detection. I get 1 or 2 spam mail sent to me just while checking my inbox, and around 20-80 during weekends it’s insane.
Sana yung spam na nakakain na lang no? he he … ;P
ZERO,
oo nga..
kung pagkain sana, nabusog pa ako.
this got me to checking my gmail account right away. I rarely check my emails on my other accounts. hmm, wonder how many spams na kaya dun?
hahaha kaasar ang spam!
pinsan, si nixon nga (bro ko!) ilang bes ng naging millionaire sa mga spam emails nya…saying he won the lottery or something like may mana sya.
argh!
MARNI,
i think it just happens to accounts that are very active. i have other gmail account i rarely use and im receiving no spams on them.
have a great weekend.
ZETH,
hahaha! ako din nakakatanggap nyang mana mana na yan. they need my help daw para ma withdraw yung kayamanan ng isang namatay. otherwise mapupunta lang yung money sa government.
those emails usually come from african countries.