I have a Yahoo email address mostly to collect junk mail from websites that require valid email addresses upon registration. I didn’t normally check it, but now I receive valid email at that address. So I’m cruising the long list of unread mail barely paying attention to the Subject Line as I mark the delete checkmark box for each one without reading them. I mean, I kinda already know the contents of the Penis Enlargement ads, and hey, there are only so many times you can undergo that kind of surgery, so after awhile, it falls on deaf ears. Or blind eyes. Or whatever.
But sometimes, you notice things, like how Omaha Steaks sends me an ad whose Subject Line reads: “Save 68% plus 2 free gifts, 3 days only”. Then another email from Omaha Steaks dated approxiamtely, oh, THREE DAYS LATER, says “Save 75% plus 2 free gifts, 3 days only.” So, you know, if you wait a few more series of three day intervals…
I also received a very important email from Amazon.com. According to them, it was their second notice. They sent it to me 4 times about 3 minutes apart. They said I should immediately go to this [click here] website and enter all my personal information. When I dug into the properties of the email, it really came from someone at wellbeburningyo.com. Get it? We’ll Be Burning You Dot Com? A Google search revealed nothing about any spam coming from these people, but I found the domain website (www[dot]wellbeburningyo[dot]com) – a very plain page which requires login, so I tried a username of “Shame on You” and a Password of “Spammers”. I tried logging in several times all the while lecturing them and cursing them, fantasizing that it will all show up on some log somewhere of failed login attempts. Of course, with my luck, they’ll track me down, spam the hell out of me, steal my identity and run over my dog.
