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May 16, 2005

They're Just Not Trying Anymore

My spam filter collected this item today:

Dear sir.

I am interested in your partnership in business
dealing and I do not wish to take your time with a
lenghty mail.I have a huge amount of money being
deposited in a firm which I don't want to disclose the
exact amount for security reasons until you determined
to transact with me and inform me of your willingness
for further proceedure and explainational directives.

Sincerely Yours,
[name removed]

I remember a time, not that long ago, when Nigerian-style spam letters were truly impressive documents. Dramatic, sad story. Impressive amounts of money. Emotion, conflict, they were practically operatic!

*sigh*

Meanwhile, I notice my non-existent eBay account, and my non-existent PayPal account have been cancelled many, many times in recent days. I suppose I should be upset about this, but to be honest I'm more upset about the very poor punctuation in the most recent of the PayPal-related emails, which consistently featured no space after commas. Come on, guys. It's hard to fall for this crap when you don't do your best work.

Posted by adrian at May 16, 2005 07:24 PM

Comments

That is sad.

On the other hand, I never used to get spam at all. Now I get low-rate mortgage offer spam almost daily--but that didn't start until after I got a mortgage, and the address it goes to has no link whatsoever to my bank. How's that for scary?

Posted by: Cheyenne [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 17, 2005 08:21 AM

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