Saturday 30 January 2010

The funniest things about spam emails

I've gone beyond finding spam emails dull or boring and now have the humour filter switched on. It comes inuseful and it means I always read emails twice when they look slightly convincing.

Here are a few things that amuse me.

Overfriendly or culturally incorrect greetings. In the UK it isn't usual to say "Hello my friend" when addressing an email to someone you you don't know.

Bad Grammar is a good giveaway and often worth a chuckle. Just what does "Quality pills in older clinic now" mean, that was from a Cialis email. 

Dodgy formatting where the words run together or there are obviously too many spaces or new lines.
 
Girls emailing me wanting to get in touch. The only reason this doesn't upset my wife is that the girls don't even exist. Sometimes they can't even remember their names from one part of the email to the next.


Offers of a wife are lovely but I already have one and she isn't particularly taken by the idea of sharing me with others. Here is a snip of a lovely email offering to find me a wife. It has a couple of the funnies mentioned above. I've snipped most of the headers.


Subject: Elite Russian girls for you.
From: Vicki Ralph 
Reply-To: giqodec@5.25.ru
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:20:00 +0100
 
hiFind you Wive right now. http://www.porno55.ru


I'm not sure if I'm being offered a wife for myself or even someone else's wife. There are so many mistakes here I acn only guess I'm supposed to visit the link in the email. 

Have you got any good examples?

No comments:

Post a Comment

Please let us know what you think of this article. Leave a comment right here.