Archive for January 29th, 2011
Check out this beauty I got in my email inbox today. Come on, Gmail! Shouldn’t your spam filter be picking this stuff up? Anyway, not only am I annoyed with receiving this authentic email from the one and only Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, but I’m also somewhat insulted. If you’re going to try and scam me, at least have the decency to use proper grammar! That’s just plain laziness. It’s not just incorrect grammar, it’s flat out horrendous. I had a hard time trying to piece a couple of their sentences together. How are you supposed to fool anyone when it’s so poorly worded? If someone falls for this crap, I think they deserve it.
So I’m guessing they used some kind of translation software before sending out the mass spam. With Gmail’s spam filter doing such a knock-out job, my guess is they used Google Translator. But I can forgive this, Google, since your Google Contacts app is pretty awesome.
But back to this Mr. Ban Ki-moon and his attempt to give me money. After I got over the annoyance of the spam, I read this beauty of a letter. I love how it warns me of other fake spammers out there and this one is actually legit. And they must be on the up and up if the CC’d the friggin’ FBI! Oh yeah, and he copied Attorney General Eric Holder. And of course, nice touch with the header including a pic of the UN. That’s enough for me, where do I sign?
Go to hell, spammers.
-Dave Q.
