Complete and total morons, do you work with some?

stever · Jul 23, 2008

I am in IT and get the great job of managing the email filter. What does that mean? I see all the email and get to delete the **** I think is farking stupid. So today I see one I haven't seen in maybe a year or more and what amazed me is the number of email addresses I could have harvested from it. Over 300 unique emails in this one email alone, and for what? well lets just see what they are forwarding...

some_idiot said:
Here something that you might want to read it was on the news .
Subject: FW: PLEEEEEASE READ!!!! It was on the news!

Dear friends,
Something to share with all of u. Would u believe if this is true? Read on..... For those who need money badly and this is one opportunity to try it! I'm an attorney, and I know the law. This thing is for real. Rest assured AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises for fear of facing a multimillion-dollar class action suit similar to the one filed by PepsiCo against General Electric not too long ago.

Dear Friends,
Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates is sharing his fortune. If you ignore this you will repent later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test. When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period. For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $245.00, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $241.00. Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a cheque.
Regards.
Charles S. Bailey
General Manager Field Operations
[CONTACT DETAILS REMOVED]

I thought this was a scam myself, but two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on, Microsoft contacted me for my address and within days, I received a cheque for US$24,800.00. You need to respond before the beta testing is over. If anyone can afford this Bill Gates is the man. It's all marketing expense to him. Please forward this to as many people as possible. You are bound to get at least US$10,000.00.

We're not going to help them out with their e-mail beta test without getting a little something for our time. My brother's girlfriend got in on this a few months ago. When I went to visit him for the Baylor/UT game. She showed me her check. It was for the sum of $4,324.44 and was stamped "Paid In Full".

Like I said before, I know the law, and this is for real Intel and AOL are now discussing a merger which would make them the largest Internet company and in an effort make sure that AOL remains the most widely used program, Intel and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.

$240.00/per email forwarded? ARE YOU INSANE?? I have a bridge to sell you if you think you are getting 200+ dollars per email that you forward. My gawd I have no idea how these people function from day to day. Maybe I should just collect these emails then sell them to Nigerian scammers.

Complete and total TOOLS.

BierMuncher · Jul 23, 2008

I say you let the emails fly. Let the idiots that don't know any better bite the bait. It's called selective....selective....selective.........er......uh.....I don't remember exactly what it is called...but it sounds like what's going on here...

MattMann · Jul 23, 2008

How much for the bridge?

the_bird · Jul 23, 2008

Anyone who describes AOL as one of "the largest Internet companies..."

JustDave · Jul 23, 2008

Looks like my MIL is forwarding emails again.

Rezilynt · Jul 23, 2008

****. That started over 10 years ago. I feel you pain. I've been in IT in one capacity or the other for the past 22 years and have seen some really stupid stuff. Best payback I ever got was when I had a trainer climbing over a table to check tables. I start hearing laughter in the background and then I here the trainer "Oh my God, I forgot I was wearing a short skirt" That was sweet redemption.

MikeFlynn74 · Jul 24, 2008

I love it when IT guys think they need to comb your email.

EdWort · Jul 24, 2008

Since when are checks stamped "paid in full"?

Nice variation of the Nigerian e-mail scam.

[FONT=helvetica, verdana][SIZE=-1]ATTN: PRESIDENT/CEO NETSCIENTIA CORPORATION [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=helvetica, verdana][SIZE=-1] It is with heart full of hope and gods wish that I write to seek your help in the context below. I am Mr. Claudio Kabila, the second son of the late Laurent Kabila Former President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C) whose sudden death occurred in January 2001. Having gotten your particulars from my late father's library, I have no doubt to your capacity and goodwill to assist me in receiving into your custody (for safety) the sum of US$37 million willed and deposited in the favor of myself and my mother who is thesecond wife of the late president. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=helvetica, verdana][SIZE=-1] This money is currently kept in a trust deposit vault with a Finance and Security company here in (DUBAI) However, the new Government headed by my step brother Joseph has on assumption of office setup an inquiry to recover all the assets belonging to my late dad including cash and properties with the pretence of safe-keeping, but with actual intentionof personal inheritance. All this because we are from a polygamous family. The investigation team has submitted their report, presently some cash andassets have been seized. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=helvetica, verdana][SIZE=-1] Fortunately, I managed to escape from the country,and with the help of our lawyer, I am presently living as a refugee here until I succeed in the transaction and due to the situation of things our lawyer has strictly advised that the willed money be urgently mved into an over-seas account of a trusted Foreign family friend without delay for security reasons. I expect you to be trustworthy and kind enough to respond to this call (SOS) to save my entire family and me froma hopeless future. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=helvetica, verdana][SIZE=-1] I hereby agree to compensate your sincere effort in this regard with 20% of the fund, when finally received in your local Bank account. The attorney here has perfected arrangements with the Bankers to effect complete dislodgment of this money within a week of the receipt of your response through telephone and fax. They have equally guaranteed 100% risk free and smooth transfer. reply me via e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=helvetica, verdana][SIZE=-1] Best Wishes
Mr. Claudio Kabila , [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=helvetica, verdana][SIZE=-1] I look forward to your quick response. May God bless you for your kindness.[/SIZE][/FONT]

stever · Jul 24, 2008

MikeFlynn74 said:
I love it when IT guys think they need to comb your email.

It is not a matter of me feeling i need to do anything, my orders come for the boss and he wants ZERO non business related email. How would you purpose I decide what is and is not business related?

SavageSteve · Jul 24, 2008

I don't work with any complete and total morons, but my colleagues do!

MikeFlynn74 · Jul 24, 2008

my orders come for the boss and he wants ZERO non business related email

Then your boss is a moron. Too many people focus on inconsequential details like this and ignore security.

Is this guy paying by the email?

david_42 · Jul 24, 2008

My last job we had lots of idiots. They're called Sales, Marketing and management. The sort who can't understand why downloading and playing porn using company equipment & on company time isn't ok. Or that complaining to IT about your bootleg software (which you installed on your company laptop) might get you fired. Or getting fired for printing 5000 copies of a flier for your church's Easter service on a company printer using company paper ISN'T religious persecution.

When we blocked wave and flash attachments on email, our storage requirements dropped 80%.

stever · Jul 24, 2008

MikeFlynn74 said:
Then your boss is a moron. Too many people focus on inconsequential details like this and ignore security.

Is this guy paying by the email?

Who gives a fuk what he wants or does (within reason of course), he pays me to do the job and I do it. You feel free to go tell your boss to screw off though.

neilb · Jul 24, 2008

Funniest IT story I have is the guy who sent me an email frantically telling me that the email I just rejected from him was just a joke and that he was very sorry.

I told him that I don't reject the emails but that the server automatically sends those messages if you tried to send an email wasn't allowed (swear words, certain attachments etc). He replied saying "Thanks! I'm glad to hear it!!!".

What I didn't tell him is that the server keeps a copy of the rejected emails. So looking at the server I saw his email flagged for language. Inside was an email telling a fellow work colleague how much he "couldn't wait to f**k her tonight". The work colleague was not his wife.

It was fun watching him tip-toe around me for the next year. What an idiot.

MikeFlynn74 · Jul 24, 2008

What I didn't tell him is that the server keeps a copy of the rejected emails. So looking at the server I saw his email flagged for language. Inside was an email telling a fellow work colleague how much he "couldn't wait to f**k her tonight". The work colleague was not his wife.

It was fun watching him tip-toe around me for the next year. What an idiot.

This is why you digitally sign and encrypt emails. sigh. So many morons on and running networks.

IrregularPulse · Jul 25, 2008

The biggest idiots I deal with are sales. nationally but mostly internationally. Now I want to be sure not to take away any retard credit for our national guys, but our international guys are absolutely brain dead. IT can be nazi's sometimes, but if you ahve there job you would be too, 80% of people in the office are retards when it comes to online activity!

eschatz · Jul 25, 2008

Someone on here the other day was about to get scammed. I dont remember who that was but it was a craigslist thing if I remember correctly. That **** is creepy!

Orfy · Jul 25, 2008

I work with some total ****ing idiot.
Some of them are Professors and the majority of them have degrees.

I have toooooo many stories to tell.

ohiobrewtus · Jul 25, 2008

MikeFlynn74 said:
This is why you digitally sign and encrypt emails. sigh. So many morons on and running networks.

If you're on a corporate network, it's not as easy as just deciding to encrypt your email messages. My users can't install software on their machines, but if they could, I'd suspend an account immediately if someone tried to do that using the company mail server. They might as well hold up a sign that says "I'm doing stuff that I know I'm not supposed to be doing, so I'm going to try and hide it because I think that I should be able to do anything that I want on this computer that you bought for me... and I'm an idiot".

If you're going to screw around at the office via email, do it with a gmail account.

We have a policy here that all users must to agree to if they want to use a computer. Part of that policy is acknowledgement that all emails, voice messages and files are the property of the company and using the systems to create those documents is a service that is provided to them and supported by IT. Users are given notification that they should expect no privacy. It's not because we're trying to be pricks and control employees... it' s just to cover the company's butt. I don't read people's emails unless I'm instructed to. I don't monitor phone calls unless I'm instructed to. But the systems we have in place give me the ability to go and read or listen to anything that everyone here has done within the last 12 months. It's saved the company a few lawsuits that otherwise would have been 'his word against mine'.

We had a Sales guy a couple of years ago that left to work for a competitor. A couple of months later we started getting calls from customers saying that our now former sales guy was calling on them, using all of the same presentation materials that he used when he worked for us - he just changed the logo. Of course that ticked our president off and my company sued the pants off of the guy. The crazy thing is, he was dumb enough to actually talk about doing this with his future employee while he was still working here... using OUR E-MAIL SYSTEM. The ignorance of some people just amazes me.

brauhaus · Jul 25, 2008

we'll i'm glad i don't work for a company that goes through my email, but why would you use your company email/phone to do something you know will get you in trouble?

gmail for sensitive materials, work email for.. well... work.

our IT kid is 22 years old and watches movies and surfs porn all day, so I'm sure he's real concerned about what we are doing, but either way, I try to keep it clean.

stever · Jul 25, 2008

BraeHaus said:
we'll i'm glad i don't work for a company that goes through my email, but why would you use your company email/phone to do something you know will get you in trouble?

gmail for sensitive materials, work email for.. well... work.

our IT kid is 22 years old and watches movies and surfs porn all day, so I'm sure he's real concerned about what we are doing, but either way, I try to keep it clean.

I don't think most companies go through email, the way a good system works is, you have filters set up to stop email if something in that email triggers the filter. Like in my original post, that email triggered one of the filters becuase of the lure of cash for forwarding the email along to as many people as possible. Once and email is stopped it has to be reviewed to see if it was a clean piece of mail such as Purchase Order or some other valid email. No one can sit and go though the volumes of email that a decent size company gets, but you can be proactive and filter out the bullsh1t that simply allows the employee to waste time. If your filters are good you only catch the crap, then a quick glance to verify the tell tale signs of urban legends, porn, or money angels and then delete.

On another note any good IT person will also have all web based email sites blocked too.

ohiobrewtus · Jul 25, 2008

stever said:
On another note any good IT person will also have all web based email sites blocked too.

I tried, but our President's secretary threw a ***** fit so despite my recommendations, external mail sites remain accessible to my users.

stever · Jul 25, 2008

ohiobrewtus said:
I tried, but our President's secretary threw a ***** fit so despite my recommendations, external mail sites remain accessible to my users.

Doesn't your system allow for individual filtering via IP or User? we get people like that too so we open them up, the rest remain locked down.

ohiobrewtus · Jul 25, 2008

stever said:
Doesn't your system allow for individual filtering via IP or User? we get people like that too so we open them up, the rest remain locked down.

It sure does, but the boss said leave it open. Truth be told, I think he checks external mail accounts during the day.

MikeFlynn74 · Jul 25, 2008

f you're on a corporate network, it's not as easy as just deciding to encrypt your email messages. My users can't install software on their machines, but if they could, I'd suspend an account immediately if someone tried to do that using the company mail server. They might as well hold up a sign that says "I'm doing stuff that I know I'm not supposed to be doing, so I'm going to try and hide it because I think that I should be able to do anything that I want on this computer that you bought for me... and I'm an idiot".

Thumb drives are a wonderful thing- No install and no flags. Unless thumb drive access is restricted then they can stop you from encrypting email.

We have a policy here that all users must to agree to if they want to use a computer. Part of that policy is acknowledgement that all emails, voice messages and files are the property of the company and using the systems to create those documents is a service that is provided to them and supported by IT. Users are given notification that they should expect no privacy. It's not because we're trying to be pricks and control employees... it' s just to cover the company's butt. I don't read people's emails unless I'm instructed to. I don't monitor phone calls unless I'm instructed to. But the systems we have in place give me the ability to go and read or listen to anything that everyone here has done within the last 12 months. It's saved the company a few lawsuits that otherwise would have been 'his word against mine

Depending on what you guys do- That can be a lawsuit in itself. Simply telling someone that their email is unsecure doesnt mean Privacy Act info isnt protected. But then again it all depends on the info in the email.

I worry about security and system uptime. I could give a damn what websites you go to or what you email. Its all backed up and courts can order warrants if someone wants to read it and even then it has to be specific. Infact since all of our users can potentially have medical info in their email, it has to be protected.

I understand your position- Glad Im not stuck trying to give somebody the business cause they wrote an email.

Complete and total morons, do you work with some?

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