Silly Spammers…
I swear that spammers are getting dumber.
Perhaps you’ve seen phishing messages, like “You have 5 unread messages at Facebook.”
Sometimes it’s Twitter. Or MySpace. Or whatever.
Sometimes, they’re not phishing messages. Sometimes they’re invitations to dating sites. “You have a secret admirer!” Or whatever. You need to join their site to find out who’s interested in you.
Sometimes, you’ll get messages that so-and-so saw your profile on a dating site and wanted to meet you. Well, that’s a tip-off since I don’t have a profile on any dating site, so it’s kind of hard for them to have seen my profile, right?
Anyway, so today I get a new one. “You have 0 unread messages on…” And it’s for some dating site.
Um, okay. If I have 0 unread messages, why do I want to login to read them? Either I’ve already read them or I don’t have any. Now, knowing I don’t have an account on this dating service, I know I haven’t read any messages, so no worries about them being deleted, which isn’t threatened in the eMail at all. If it were, I could see where someone might want to login to see what messages they’ve forgotten about. But, no. It’s just a pitch to join their site.
Idiots.
Oh, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking the point of the stupid subject line was to get me to read the eMail and, since I did that, they are not so dumb after all.
Sorry.
Ordinarily, I would have simply deleted it based on the subject. After all, if I have 0 unread messages waiting for me, well, that’s not exactly an urgent call to action, is it?
I only read it because I wanted to blog about it and, in order to blog about it, it was helpful to read it.
So, score a big zero for the spammer.
On the flip side, at least my spam this morning was mildly entertaining.
HA! You have NO messages. Duh, why would you log in! Silly Spammers are stupid!