Spam fun

[anghara]

Here's one for your amusement:

To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Att,
From: peterwongk@tiscali.cz
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:25:40 +0200

Att,

I am peter-wong from Bank hang seng hong kong, I have a late client funds
of $8 USD in my bank and i need you to front as beneficiary,if interested
contact me for more details on Email:peter_wong016@yahoo.com.hk


Eight dollars? EIGHT DOLLARS? How magnanimous of him. And not only that, this thing isn't aimed - even just nominally, with my own name in the To: field - at me. It's broad aim scattershot - to "undisclosed recipients". Just how many people do you expect me to share those eight bucks WITH, buster?

(And I just love that first email address coming from the Czech Republic, but you're to contact him at yahoo.com at Hong Kong (I suppose to make it seem a tad more legit for those who aren't very observant about email headers...)

Do these people ever stop to THINK?

Comments

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Nope, I don't think they think at all....or else I wouldn't constantly be given the opportunity to Update my P****. I get 3 or 4 of those a day.

[miketo.livejournal.com]

But it could be true; Wong is a very common Czech name....

:D

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Alas,
it may also be an address check. If the email bounces, the address isn't good. If the email doesn't bounce, it is a good address. Was there an attachment?

[anghara.livejournal.com]

You mean an address Czech, don't you...? No, no attachment, so you could be Wong about this...

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I think I made more money yesterday by rescueing an abandoned trolley with the pound coin still stuck in it and picking up a *very* shiny penny from the floor where dozens of people had walked before me.

If I can do that eighty times a day, I could make a living ;-)