Extrapolating from the studies quoted in this New York Times column we have reached the astounding conclusion that being exposed to less spam can help you lose weight.
Right about now you’re probably asking yourself “How can this be?” Well, follow us over the jump and we’ll show you. more »
Email marketing is cheap: production costs are nearly nonexistent; delivery is free; you can do reasonably accurate targeting with minimal effort; and you don’t need to own any equipment.
This is why there is so much spam.
Yes Virginia, there is Black Magic (BM).
If there wasn’t, nobody would send spam like this:
Subject: cure black magic
From: “batool fatima” <nbhgyt@yahoo.com>
This is and old one from The Onion but still funny. We bumped into it while doing some research the other day. Now we have to look for a new job. We didn’t realize we were hurting so many people by blocking spam.
“For millions of poorly hung American men, spam is a vital source of information about penis-enlargement options, and our elected officials have no right to take it away from them.”
As experts in spam control we have concluded that there’s a secret spammer’s manual out there that is followed, to varying degrees, by nearly all spammers. We thought it would be fun to try to reverse engineer this manual based on the types of things we see repeated in campaign after campaign.
Every so often we get the privilege of reading a laugh out loud funny fraud attempt.
Submitted for your enjoyment:
Subject: We are Not of Such Dirty and Illegal Characters
From: Western Union <westenunion11@live.com>
The subject alone is pretty funny but wait until you ready the message body.
If you don’t respect your online identity, nobody else will and before long your in-box will rot and fall off. At least that’s what our mother told us. She also told us to eat our vegetables that we’d go blind if we forwarded email to ourselves.
We usually take what Mom says with a grain of salt.
We don’t even know where to begin with this one:
Subject: Central Intelligence Agency
From: Central Inteligency Agency
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
The Central Inteligency Agency. Really?
