Every night I get an email message from "Junk Mail" with all the spam emails it snared in it's crafty little net, allowing me to see if any were mistakenly held up.
Several funny situations have arisen including a work email that had the words "Card Penetration" in it that went straight to junk mail. That's not the funny part. We later discoverd it didn't get filtered for the word penetration, but the word "savings." ??? What??? Give us your porn mail, we just don't want anyone selling us crap. That's our job.
Moving on, one thing I've noticed is how crafty this "spam" guy is. (And yes, I do know that spam is male.) Spam has picked up on my own email address, and sends me stuff from me. I assume "spam" believes that if it's from myself, I will instantly trust the sender and just accept my senility. Not a bad gamble considering my memory these days. But you lose spam--I'm not all gone yet.
I have ignored approximately 36 emails to me thus far.
I had to crack up today when I scanned the junk mail messages and saw that I, squinn@..., had written the following subject to myself, "You A##hole, answer."
Well, I knew right away that I would never call myself that name. But it did crack me up that I had so obviously gotten under the skin of this spam character to the point where it was trying a new fear tactic on me and resorting to calling me names.
I'm strangely excited to see what my nemesis will try next. Game on spammy, game on.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Crafty Spam
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I just checked my spam folder, and I too apparently sent myself a message with the subject line "You A##hole, answer." But I thought it was even better when I discovered that I had sent myself a message titled "Answer, or I'll sue." It's one thing to call names, and quite another to threaten litigation. A lawsuit like that would raise some interesting legal questions, though, e.g.: if I (plaintiff) filed a suit against myself in a certain court, could it be inferred that I (defendant) consented to the jurisdiction of that court? It makes the head spin.
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