52 Weeks of Spam: Winners, Week of March 26
Winners, Week of March 26:
Re: Kaye Petersen
From: [You guess right! YET ANOTHER AOL ADDRESS!]
Hey Kaye Petersen,
I guess your job is going good. I wanted to alert you to a superb job opp. inDanbury. Kaye we have had few of our clients take this opportunity and I have heard great stories.
The local paper has story featuring one of our clients, Kelly Richards. It will also give you all the important information you need to get started. Kaye the link is [scary link] and I believe the story will be on the homepage until tomorrow.
Truly,
[No Name]
[Signature Line:] Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. – Robert Frost
While this one is similar to last week’s, I just had to give it kudos for opening with a line like “I guess your job is going good” and closing with a quote from Robert Frost.
Everybody hates Spam—it fills up your Inbox (unless you’ve got G-mail, which does a great job of putting it in an appropriately-labeled folder), clogs your blog (WordPress does a great job filtering, too), and can threaten your computer’s security.
I have to say though, I love my Spam. It cracks me up—it’s poorly spelled, illiterate, and often leaves me wondering who would be dumb enough to click on the link for whatever product/service/lottery winning from mysterious relative in a country you’ve never heard of. So I decided in 2012 I’d go through my Spam each week and pick my favorites to share with the world. I remove the sender and any links that might be damaging (plus, who wants to give them press?).
See you next week! If you get any great Spam, you can post it here, just strip any links and the sender’s e-mail. And be sure to say something in the post to let me know you’re real. Otherwise I might think you’re…well, Spam.
Posted on March 31, 2012, in 52 Weeks of Spam and tagged digg scams, job opportunity scams, spam, spam filters. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
You asked for it–this one cracks me up. I mean, the opening is a real attention-grabber and it takes half the spam before it tells you just WTF it’s even advertising!
L..R..Replications ✆
Mar 30 (2 days ago)
to nicolet
YOU ARE NOT DREAMING:
This is real!
You no longer have to dream about owning a high-end luxury
wristwatch.
With over 500 new models to choose from you might think you
are in a dream.
WE ARE BETTER THAN THE REST:
Every SINGLE wristwatch we make is made with the same:
Materials, Metals, Labeling and Functionality as the original.
There is no possible way to tell the difference!
ENDING EASTER SUNDAY:
Every wristwatch has been price reduced by 15-25%.
This will be ending
Sunday April 8th, 2012
NANCY, THAT IS GREAT! I love the line, “This is real.” My first reaction, “what’s real?” But what’s even better is that they’re hocking knock-offs, but insisting that these knock-offs are exactly the SAME as the high-end luxury watches. Okay, so then…which is it? A knock-off or a luxury watch?
The other thing that slays me is that that is literally the whole message. No link. No pictures. No nothing. So how are you supposed to GET this miraculously fake genuine watch??
WOW. You’re right. I didn’t notice that!