Can it be done or is it to large of a task even for experienced hackers like yourse

[Voltage Spike]

I use those credit card apps pre-paid postage to send them the *other* snail spam I get that day...I still have to do something with it, but it makes me feel a *little* better to send them my garbage.

Funny that you mention that just as I find this thanks to the maddox link in another thread:


http://maddox.xmission.com/junk_the_junk.html

[alklloyd]

Actually, I used to do that too...they only have to pay the pre-paid postage if it actually gets used...so I liked making them pay it...but then I realized that my time was worth more to me than the 37 cents I was costing them...so I said fuck it.

Screw that penny-ante stuff. Do what Abbie Hoffman suggested and paste it
on a brick. That's gotta be some serious postage.

Al

[astcell]

Some companies caught on to the brick scheme and now say on the envelope "Not valid for more than 16 ounces." IN that case be sure to mail something with a really weird size and shape, like a fully inflated beach ball.

[bobaxos]

Screw that penny-ante stuff. Do what Abbie Hoffman suggested and paste it
on a brick. That's gotta be some serious postage.

Al

A brick huh? I'd be carefull now a days you might be considered a terrorist.

Sending the spam back to the spammers sounds entertaining. Yes I have a lot of free time on my hands when school is out.

[astcell]

Legally, sending them their own junk back is mail fraud. But I bet the post office has a smile over it all too. They hate the stuff as much as we do.

[pezz]

Legally, sending them their own junk back is mail fraud. But I bet the post office has a smile over it all too. They hate the stuff as much as we do.

It's only mail fraud if they can prove that your intentions were fraudulent.

Either way, you don't want to get into a pissing match with PI's.

Somewhere I remember reading something about a guy who cashed a 99,997.00 sweepstakes entry form which resembled a check.
He implied that he though he had already won, and that was his prize check.

[skroo]

Somewhere I remember reading something about a guy who cashed a 99,997.00 sweepstakes entry form which resembled a check.
He implied that he though he had already won, and that was his prize check.

Yup, it was Patrick Combs. IIRC, though, he cashed the check to see if the bank would process an instrument marked 'not a valid check' - which, of course, they did. The Post Office didn't get involved since he was sent the bogus check by the issuing company, so didn't actually use the mails as part of the gag. The bank was rather less lenient about it, though.

[astcell]

What a great story for a dry Monday morning. I sent him ten bucks.