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December 20, 2003I do hope my bed and breakfast establishment is cozy, at least...
I usually delete my spam without a second thought, but I received a piece of it tonight that deserves a passing mention for no other reason than sheer oddity.
Apparently, my "Bed and Breakfast Website is NOT being SEEN! Why? NO ONE CAN FIND IT!"
That's disheartening news, definitely, but not surprising. I can't find my bed and breakfast website either, nor did I even know that I had one. I don't want to think about how long my ignorance would have continued, had Regal Telecom not sent me this very concerned--and obviously very personal--message.
Seriously, though, all kidding aside, this has got to be some of the most random spam I've ever received. At least with the penile and breast augmentation messages, the spammers are bound to send it to recipients possessed of the right primary or secondary sex organs to make it pertinent--and the debt reduction e-mails are only indicative of our credit-mad culture. But spam about Bed and Breakfast websites? If you take one thousand people at random, how many of them A) have a bed and breakfast place, B) have a website for it, and C) haven't adequately monitored its presence on the web?
I don't know if the folks at Regal Telecom are quixotic or just plain stupid, but I had myself a chuckle over their message, regardless.
Posted by patrick at December 20, 2003 04:40 AM
CommentsI'd like to broaden this thread to accompany another rant.
WHY THE HELL HAVEN'T I RECEIVED A NIGERIAN BANK FRAUD SPAM????
I would consider myself to be pretty well suited to the life of a cyber-citizen. But to my frustration, I've been left of out the the bank fraud club. Call me bizzaro but it's almost like a subtle pat on the back to know that some toothless miscreant in the bowels of Abuja wants to prey on lil' ol' me out of the millions of other tech-illiterate.
My parents, friends and girlfriend have told me that they could forward my email, but that of course would defeat the whole purpose of receiving one at random. All I can do is wait.
By the way, check out this guy's hilarious drama with the nigerian fraud-meisters. Long read, but funny!!!
http://spl.haxial.net/nigerian-fraud/
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James
Posted by: james Dalby at December 21, 2003 11:39 PM
Found your site via a Google search. I got hit with one about my 'plumbing website' last night, which doesn't actually exist. The fact that emaail was sent to an alias called 'weblog' to a .me.uk (personal) domain obviously didn't click with them either.
In any case, they appear to be a British company, in which case they've just broken the law because they have sent an unsolicited message to an individual whom they have no existing relationship with, and offered no way of opting out of their mail.
Posted by: Neil T. at January 6, 2004 02:09 AM
Congratulations.......
Fantastic website you have here,
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And you are ALL " WELCOME " to visit my little website one day
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Dé la bienvenida para visitar mi website.
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