Dave Metzener's Weblog

Sometimes you just can’t help but laugh at how totally obvious SPAM can be. I got this one today, and it totally cracked me up.

I blurred out the “Reply-To” email address, because that’s probably a real person’s email address and I really don’t want to have anyone else bothering them. The rest of the email addresses are fair game in my opinion.

Either this SPAMmer is 4 years old, not an English speaking/writing human, or just completely clueless. Either way, the inconsistent spelling of lawyer, the attached file named “safe_mail.txt”, the name of the contact vrs. the email address of the contact, punctuation, etc… It all just makes me laugh.

I just hope and prey that in this day and age, that people are not falling for these kinds of SPAM. Mind you, most decent, even average SPAM filters can handle this kind of SPAM so that the end user won’t see them. Still, please do us all a favor, don’t open attachments in email, at all.

If you are sending someone pictures, use flickr.com or any of the many other picture sharing sites. If you are sending a text file or even some binary data, there are plenty of sites that will let you store the file on their server for a short period of time so that your recipient has time to get an email with a link to the file to download from that server. yousendit.com and transferbigfiles.com are just a couple I found with a quick search on Google.

So, just sit back and enjoy some of the SPAM you get on a regular basis.