Wednesday, November 28, 2007

SPAM

Here is a recent spam email that I found in my gmail spam folder:

From: Chris A. Gleason
Subject:
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Message:
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"All we know at this point is that there is a bombDadullah also claims that there are "hundreds" of


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individuals of interest to federal agents and may be"All we know at this point is that there is a bombWe didn't receive press releases or scripts in advance
taken into consideration as they try to take measures tosources who refuse to be identified in order to generate

_________
Best regards,
Chris


So what I don't understand is this: who is actually clicking on the links in these emails? The title of the email and the body of the email are barely even related and the body of the email seems to contain several different messages. Even the TITLE of the email has a misspelling. Yet, surely someone is clicking on these links otherwise whoever's spending the time to create these emails would be broke already... right? I don't think that there are people who are so desperate for enlargement that they'd just click on the first link they'd see and it's not like there is a compelling message within the body of the email that would fool anyone with any sort of reading comprehension to go to the advertised website. At least the spam emails from those supposed Nigerian princes asking for advanced deposits to liberate their family fortunes have an actual storyline. I could see people getting tricked by that.

By the way, to avoid some chance ironic situation where one of you people reads the above email and is inexplicably convinced to click on the link, I changed the URL to cnn.com so you didn't get computer viruses.

Anyways, I suppose people might click on the URL if they really don't understand computers at all and if they just click on blue text blindly. But if that were the case, it seems to make more sense just to send the URL without the extra stuff. Something like:

From: Chris A. Gleason
Subject:
With larger peni's you will have the hottest women at your feet

Message:
http://www.expand.com
Now I could see people clicking on that. I might even click on that if the title of the email actually interested me (which, in this example, it doesn't). I guess the spammers don't do that because it would be too easy for software to filter out.

By the way, the above link also points to cnn.com. Don't believe every naked URL you see on the internet!

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