So here's the thing.
I will admit to finding spam emails rather fascinating. I don't know whether to be impressed at the ingenuity of spammers in finding new and intriguing subject titles to entice me to open them, or confused by the thought that there might actually be people out there that would actually be fooled with these titles.
Now, for instance, today in my work spam folder, I found three emails. One had your normal incomprehensible title, "ma-mrts", but the other two subject titles were works of brilliance. Both revolved around Paris Hilton, as much spam seems to, but the spammers have finally worked out that the thought of seeing Paris Hilton naked actually creeps me out a little bit, and will certainly not motivate me to open the email. So, they've stopped promising me hot Hilton action, and have gone for something a little more interesting.
The first: "Judge Sets Execution Date For Paris Hilton"
Now, as nice as the thought of a world without Paris Hilton is, I'm pretty certain this story isn't true. After all, first of all, you actually need to commit an actual serious crime to be sentenced to death, and I'm pretty sure being vapid and shallow and putting on an outfit that she does not look cute in to see whether her friends will be honest or lie and say she does look cute in it, as awful as they are, are not actually crimes that are punishable by death.
The second email was even better: "Paris Hilton Starts Large Hadron Collider Today"
Now, it is generally accepted these days by most theologians that the rise of Paris Hilton is one of the signs of the coming apocalypse, but the thing I love about this email is that is actually elevates Paris Hilton to actually being the person that brings about the end of the world. (The Large Hadron Collider, if you didn't know, is the particle accelerator in Switzerland due to be switched on in the next month or two that some people believe will create a black hole that will consume the Earth).
But the other thing I find fascinating about this is the concept that the scientists working on the Collider might think there was not enough interest in a potentially world-destroying experiment, so they felt they needed to make it more sexy, and the best they could come up with was Paris Hilton. Or perhaps it's just an attempt by the scientists to pass the blame for the destruction of the world onto someone that deserves it.
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You know, you have to admire someone who would post a spam comment on a blog post that discusses spam. I'm actually quite amused by that, so much so that I think I'll leave it up there - although if I get any spam comments on any other posts they are getting deleted.
My one disappointment is the lack of inventiveness. This post was admiring the creativity of the spammers, and I don't consider that a comment like "viagra online, generic viagra" from someone named 'buy viagra' quite displays the same level of creativity. But it's a start.
Now I personally prefer to buy my medical supplies, whatever they be, from a registered chemist, so I will not be following the spammer's link. But if anyone reading this decides they want to buy a sugar pill dipped in blue food colouring, by all means, visit the SafeMeds website (you know you can trust them because they have the word "safe" in their name) and purchase generic viagra to your heart's content.
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