May 23 2006

I realize this will just be a repeat of a billion other posts out there, but…

Published by Andrew at 7:02 AM under spam

What the hell are some of these spammers thinking???

What on Earth gives them the idea I would purchase a home loan from someone who can’t even spell “mortgage”?

And pharmaceuticals? If you can’t even spell your product, let alone the many, easier to spell synonyms for it, why would I buy it from you?

“Hey, ${my first and last name}
Madical Ree-fill for ${my first and last name} is ready.

Please re-confirm City .

${spammer-URL}

The Buyer as per our records: ${my first and last name}

your info if wrong order please help us to correct it
Just visit our site above to make sure.”

Madical?
Ree-fill?

The only thing they spelled right is my name.

Yeah, I know, they don’t really want to sell me medicine. They want to scam me. And all the mis-spellings are to get past my (or my ISP’s) spam filters. But let’s think about this: If I go to the trouble to set up spam filtering, what makes them think that just because they got past my spam filter (I’ll have to investigate how that happened) I’ll suddenly overlook the fact that it’s exactly the kind of thing I don’t want AND their glaringly bad English?