As of this week I will be starting a new feature at my blog I will be posting the spam of the week (without the actual urls).
I am sure you all share my frustration with unsolicited emails. There are all of those annoying lists that market insurance, prescriptions, get-rich quick scams, weight loss ads and cable descramblers. The fact is that most of these people harvest names off the internet and try to sell them as 'opt-in' lists. Then there is that gray area where one site sells there entire database to another site, and that is when you get that email that reads welcome to offersyoudontwant.com, click here if you DON'T want to receive this bullshit... The sad but true reality is that people buy things through these ads, if they didn't the spammers would go back to petty street crimes.
But every once in a while you get a message so ridiculous you gotta laugh, and you gotta wonder who the hell responds to these ads.
Week of 8/4/03:
Today I received a message from "Ira" 22Sintez@hushmail.com (yeah right) with the subject line Schoolgirls ra-ped by dogs, horses, snakes, etc. Immediately I wondered if anyone could really say they HAD been raped by a snake. I have seen a dog hump someone's leg and I heard that Catherine the great had sex with horses, although it appeared to be consensual. But how could someone be raped by a snake?
So when did this guy get the idea to pour time and resources into creating maintaining and promoting a bestiality site? Was he sipping his morning coffee thinking, "now here's a segment of the market that is widely ignored." "I think I'll dismount my pet snake and crank out some code."
And who the hell clicks on this? Is it people that are actually turned on by this? Or people that are thinking; "is this for real?" And what ISP has carved out this niche? "Our customers filmed women being raped by snakes."
As of this week I will be starting a new feature at my blog I will be posting the spam of the week (without the actual urls).
