Reply to: If you had £10 million pounds

[RichardCranium]

Anyone who falls for those emails only have themselves to blame. I assume by your anger, you have been taken in?

I haven't. It is the inconvenience and burden upon the global economy that makes me cross.

If we implemented the death penalty for anyone who buy anything off any form of cold-calling, it would have all been stopped long ago.

[OwlHoot]

OK, what I'd really, really, really like to do with £10m.

Create some honeytrap email addresses and make them available online. Start collecting the incoming spam.

Construct a small team of techie private investigators who will communicate with the spammers as punters until they can get an identity in the way the 419 baiters do.

Recruit some mercenaries who have fewer-than-average ethics.

Have the spammers executed.

Rinse and repeat until the money runs out.

I reckon £10m should be enough to get rid of a few hundred of these parasites.

(And why no country's 'security services' didn't start doing this 15 years ago, I do not understand.)

Capital idea, and not just spammers.

I'd include web developers who produce sites that pop up a window saying your PC is infested with viruses, with a progress bar indicating how many dozens their app has already found, and you can't close their window without using Task Manager (and even that doesn't always work)

[kandr]

OK, what I'd really, really, really like to do with £10m.

Create some honeytrap email addresses and make them available online. Start collecting the incoming spam.

Construct a small team of techie private investigators who will communicate with the spammers as punters until they can get an identity in the way the 419 baiters do.

Recruit some mercenaries who have fewer-than-average ethics.

Have the spammers executed.

Rinse and repeat until the money runs out.

I reckon £10m should be enough to get rid of a few hundred of these parasites.

(And why no country's 'security services' didn't start doing this 15 years ago, I do not understand.)

Anyone who falls for those emails only have themselves to blame. I assume by your anger, you haver been taken in?

[RichardCranium]

OK, what I'd really, really, really like to do with £10m.

Create some honeytrap email addresses and make them available online. Start collecting the incoming spam.

Construct a small team of techie private investigators who will communicate with the spammers as punters until they can get an identity in the way the 419 baiters do.

Recruit some mercenaries who have fewer-than-average ethics.

Have the spammers executed.

Rinse and repeat until the money runs out.

I reckon £10m should be enough to get rid of a few hundred of these parasites.

(And why no country's 'security services' didn't start doing this 15 years ago, I do not understand.)

[hyperD]

I'd buy this:



To live in, of course. Couldn't afford the opex to fly the damn thing.

[Platypus]

Reet posh that. I bet you'd wear a wax jacket, too.

Hey, MP, bought your new Chelsea Tractor yet?

[cailin maith]

I think the question behind the question is: What do you really want to be doing with your life instead of staring at a monitor/keyboard and putting up with IT-related tulipe, and answered it accordingly. Some here love IT and would stay in their job and buy trinkets - others would have a complete lifestyle change.

I might have been posh had I mentioned Barbour jackets, horses & stables, wellies and climbing excursions - ooh, I forgot the climbing excursions - I'd also travel to the North Pole by helicopter and drink champagne. Without the Red Bull.

North Utsere, South Utsere... rising slowly...

Haha - there you are posh boy

Ha.


Yep, WCMS.

Reet posh that. I bet you'd wear a wax jacket, too.

Deffo!!

Mind you - I did have one as my school coat for a year or two.

[MaryPoppins]

Yeah but you are... painting and sculpting and shooting and all that malarkey.

Ha.


Yep, WCMS.

Reet posh that. I bet you'd wear a wax jacket, too.

[realityhack]

Yeah but you are... painting and sculpting and shooting and all that malarkey.

I think the question behind the question is: What do you really want to be doing with your life instead of staring at a monitor/keyboard and putting up with IT-related shit:e, and answered it accordingly. Some here love IT and would stay in their job and buy trinkets - others would have a complete lifestyle change.

I might have been posh had I mentioned Barbour jackets, horses & stables, wellies and climbing excursions - ooh, I forgot the climbing excursions - I'd also travel to the North Pole by helicopter and drink champagne. Without the Red Bull.

North Utsere, South Utsere... rising slowly...

[cailin maith]

Really? I thought it was quite a modest lifestyle!

Yeah but you are... painting and sculpting and shooting and all that malarkey.

[Platypus]

State exactly what you would do with it.

I'd buy CUK and have you thrown out

[realityhack]

You are so posh.

Really? I thought it was quite a modest lifestyle!

[cailin maith]

I'd give £1m to charities/benevolent funds.

Then buy an old stone house somewhere nice - on the coast; Possibly Devon or Pembrokeshire - convert the outbuildings into a studio, equip it, then spend the rest of my days as an artist, mostly in chalk & oils, possibly dabbling in sculpture, living modestly off the interest. I'd take frequent, backpacker-style trail holidays with Mrs RH, and she'd probably want to continue working in the health profession. I might also teach local kids photography on an ad-hoc basis. I'd buy a Hasselblad 500CM kit.

I'd probably also buy a nice short-wheelbase Land Rover; And a baby grand piano, to get back into my music; We'd have 2 cats: a Tonkinese and a Norwegian Forest; and an Old English Sheepdog. I'd also buy a nice over & under Beretta and get back into skeet shooting.

Quality.

You are so posh.

[TimberWolf]

...I'd take frequent, backpacker-style trail holidays with Mrs RH...

Now you're talking.

[GreenLabel]

I'd probably also buy a nice short-wheelbase Land Rover.

I'd have one of those also. I like 'em.