Fun with spam

The Corner News
published July 3, 2008

Seeing as how I work for a major corporation you’d think our spam filter on our email would be a little better than it is. (NOT!) So periodically I get an email [SPAM] that’s just plain funny to me and this morning I got one. The one advertising the little blue pills, make her smile and feel good about yourself tonight are all hilarious too, but they all get through our filter about 10 times a day. But this I got this morning just made me chuckle. Here’s the entire email, less phone numbers of course. Note: I didn’t doctor this in anyway, the misspelled words and grammar errors are all theirs.

{Subject} FW: Add dr. to you name
(Here you can see the abbreviation for doctor is lowercase… It should be Dr.)

{Body of Email} Bacheelor, MasteerMBA, and Doctoraate diplomas available in the field of your choice that’s right, you can even become a Doctor and receive all the benefits that comes with it!
(Don’t know what to say about this one. Bachelor, Master, Doctorate all have double vowels. Don’t let the fact that this is a run on sentence get past you either.)

Our Diplomas/Certificates are recognised in most countries
(What is R-E-C-O-G-N-I-Z-E-D for $1000 Alex?)

No required examination, tests, classes, books, or interviews.

** No one is turned down
** Confidentiality assured

CALL US 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK

For US: (phone numbers)
Outside US: (phone numbers)

(And the coup de gras.)

“Just leave your NAME & PHONE NO. (with CountryCode)” in the voicemail

our staff will get back to you in next few days

WHAT?!

So I’m supposed to call you and leave our name and phone number on some random voice mail so some strange person can call me back in a few days? Come on man, if you’re going to run an effective scam you can at least have live people answering the phone. I’m just saying, who in their right my would respond to this? OK, that was a rhetorical question but obviously someone is because I just got the same email. (It’s been almost and hour since the first at 9:54 AM)


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