SPAM!
I recently changed my main personal email address due to heavy spam. I was pretty gutted cos it’s an address that I really liked and it had been spam free for years. Anyway, the damage was done so I cut it off and made me a new one. I emailed a few friends to let them know the new address and why it had changed.
One friend (a fellow member of our church worship band) decided that spam free was no way for me to live, and so sent me this amongst others:
FOR JUST £75* A MONTH YOU CAN ADOPT AND SUPPORT YOUR VERY OWN SEAMONKEY, HELPING US TO SUSTAIN DWINDLING WORLDWIDE POPULATIONS OF THIS RAREST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL OF CREATURES.
FEED YOUR OWN SENSE OF SMUG SELF-SATISFACTION AND SIGN UP TODAY FOR JUST £75* A MONTH – IN RETURN YOUR NEWLY ADOPTED SEAMONKEY WILL SEND YOU A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF ITSELF DOING A TWO-HANDED THUMBS-UP GESTURE AND WEARING A PARTY HAT, AS WELL AS WRITING TO YOU TWICE ANNUALLY TO UPDATE YOU ON IT’S SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS IN IT’S NEW HOME AT SEAMONKEYTOWN.
IF YOU WITHDRAW YOUR FUNDING AT ANY TIME, YOUR SEAMONKEY, WHICH TO THIS POINT WILL HAVE BEEN ENJOYING A NEWFOUND QUALITY OF LIFE, WILL BE DRAGGED OUT OF IT’S NEW HOUSE BY IT FEELERS AND UNCEREMONIOUSLY SHOT.
THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE FOR CARING,
YOURS,
THE MAYOR OF SEAMONKEYTOWN
