...spam e-mails. Like everybody else, I get dozens a day across my various e-mail accounts. Who on earth responds to spam? I mean, somebody must be, or they wouldn't keep sending them, right? But who would look at a spam e-mail, complete with typos and bad grammar and the most questionable offers screaming "DUBIOUS SOURCE!!!", and think it might actually be a wise decision to take them up? "Right, let's trust this totally unaccredited, totally unchecked, totally unknown to me doctor to lengthen my penis!" Or to give me more financial credit, or whatever.
Bizarre.
(PS: Girish - in light of your recent spam woes (sorry to hear) - this post is for you! :-))
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Jenna, it got to the point where I was getting about 30-40 of these a day! Argh.
I'm reminded of this well-read poet-blogger I know who for months was deleting spam messages from this one source, only to discover eventually that it was another poet sending him "found text manipulation/collage" poems based on spam messages as source text. They were nearly indistinguishable from, um, spam. :-)
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:-) - that's a good one, girish.
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Helo,
I am in citizen of Nigeria and have recennntly inheritedd over 3 millin dollars American mony.
I need to wire this mony over to your cuntry for saftey and have been informed you wood be a trusst-worthy persan to contact by your finnacial bank consultant.
For the servicce of wiring my mooney to your account, I will give you 50,000 $ for every millionn I wire to your acounnt. This servace will be done legaaly and quickly. It wiil have no affect on yourr accounts.
Pleese emial me your:
name, account number, pin numberr, name of bank, and any other import personal informationn.
Please do not pass up the oppportunity now to make 50,000 $..
Sincrely,
Adamu Hamzah
Sokoto, Nigeria
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Exactly. Though you do read about people actually falling for these "Nigerian scams" (or whatever they are called) and they can get quite tragic - pastor sent to jail because he started defrauding to pay money for the scam etc. But financial greed is one thing; I'm still more incredulous about the "take [name of dodgy product] to lengthen your penis - no side-effects whatsoever!!" type of spam e-mails, which is just pure and sheer stupidity.
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Oh, also... I like your new pic!!! Very Waking Life.
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Thanks . . . others have seemed creeped out by the new pic. I like the idea of being "Pop."
;o)
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