Just moments ago (well, moments ago at the time I am writing this but yesterday by the time you are reading this…), I received a “Make Money Online” spam.

Now, I am on some marketing lists, so it’s not unusual to get messages with promotions for products and services related to Internet marketing. This one, however, was not one that I recognized.

So, I looked through the eMail for an Aweber link. Aweber is a mailing list host, and a one popular among Internet marketers. If I see Aweber anywhere in the message, then I know it is a list I actually subscribed to. Of course, not all marketers use Aweber, but I’d say the majority of the ones whose lists I am on do, so that’s the first thing I look for if I don’t immediately recognize a sender.

No Aweber link. And, nothing that indicates it is from any legitimate mailing service like Aweber. So, I am guessing that it is not a list I subscribed to and that it is, in fact, spam.

The URLs listed in the message aren’t the sender’s either. They are from an URL shortening service, seemingly, but packed with a bunch of variables. So, it’s not an URL I would click on.

So, not recognizing any names used in the eMail nor the sender nor anything else, I have to conclude that it is spam.

Funny thing is that, after the body of the message, there is a whole bunch of white space. Many lines of nothing. Then, at the very bottom is what appears to be an URL for an ad on some sort of escort service website. I didn’t click on that link either.

Not sure why it’s buried all the way down there. I’m guessing most people would either delete the message or click the links in the body of the message and not scroll all the way to the bottom.

Maybe they are hedging their bets? If you don’t want to learn how to make money online, then you must already have lots of money, in which case, you might not have a girlfriend if you’ve spent so much time working to make that money so then you might be interested in an “escort” for the night. I wonder if that’s what they are thinking?

Who knows? I just thought it was funny. Want to make money online? No? Well, then, how about an hooker escort?

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