***Dave on Wednesday, 16 July 2008 at 6:42am
spam

I have to admire this particular bit of spam for its ingenuity in getting folks to open it, then read it:

Subject: Nadal disqualified from Wimbledon win

Body: Hillary Clinton announces divorce from Bill Clinton, citing irreconcilable differences

 

Followed by a link that no doubt does Terrible Things if you click on it.

Now, aside from the gaffe that the subject line doesn’t go with the body text, this is downright ingenious. Folks have gotten suspicious of offers of free money and pharmaceutical improvements to their organs, but offer up some juicy sports news and/or political gossip, and people are so there.

It’s evil, in an almost admirable way.

2 Comments to “Inquiring minds want to know!”

  1. Avocet says:

    You actually looked at the body of a message about sports from an unrecognized sender?

    I can only assume that you had already recognized it as spam.

  2. *** Dave says:

    Oh, yes. I actually could see (via GMail) the first line, too, so my interest was piqued.

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