Adventures in Internet Marketing

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Taunting Spam X

So, this is the tenth edition of my vaunted Taunting Spam, and as evidenced by recent reports, and what I can tell in the spam trenches with my company Message Partners, spam is still on the rise. If this keeps up, I'm going to have to start taunting myself.

So I received the following spam:

Subject: STATUS OF YOUR FUNDS
From: Dr joshua - natbank_plc021@eyou.com

Dear Friend,
This is to notify you about the status of your funds right now in our desk. After due vetting and evaluation of your contract file, which The Ministry of Finance of Federal Republic of Nigeria forwarded and contracted us to see to your immediate payment.
From our findings, you have been going through hard ways by paying a lot of charges to see to the release of your fund, which has been delayed. Please, from now henceforth stop further communication with any correspondence from Nigeria.
Will you follow our directives, your funds will reflect in your account within seven working days from the date we receive it. Do not respond to any correspondence again but only to this Bank, if you're the real beneficiary.
Direct all message email address ID: natwestbank_plc_23@myway.com
Congratulations in advance.
Dr. Joshua Larry
Payment Coordinator

Taunt begins: First of all, Dr. Larry, that has to be the oddest, most convoluted email address I've ever seen from anyone. I mean, here you are, trying to sound like a bank, so you stick some bank name on front of some EYou.com website. I mean, even PYou would be more memorable. And then the bank name (which should usually be the .com part), you have to use _plc021. Are you running that many cons, Doc?

And now the spam mail. I guess this is where everything is headed; no longer are you promising me riches from a deposed king in exile, but you're now warning me about those Nigerian scams so you can then scam me. This is just like those phishing emails that tell me that my account has been breached.

I'm glad this doesn't happen in the real world. Imagine, you go to hospital for a liver transplant, only to have them steal your liver. Wouldn't that suck, Dr. Larry? By the way, Doc, as you're probably not really a doctor, the liver is located in the body and is something you really really need.

And then you notify me about the status of my funds in your desk. Your desk, huh? You work at a bank, but yet you still keep the big bucks in the desk. I get it, so a band of bank robbers show up, and they demand to open the big safe, but they'll never think of looking in your desk drawer.

I could go on, and you know what, I will. Then the email address I'm supposed to correspond with...it only corresponds with the issuers email address in having an absolutely ridiculous and convoluted name. So you're at MyWay.com.

Well, Doc, as they say, it's my way, or the information superhighway, and I think I'll look elsewhere for my easy money. If you would like to correspond with me further, please write me at PresidentPete_42388@PissOff.com

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