Sunday, January 24, 2010

Dear Beloved

From my spam folder:

My beloved in Christ,

I am ,Rita ****, a Christian.I have picked your email address randomly for an inheritance of $18.5M which is lodge in a Security Company.They wrote me to come and claim the fund and i am Hospitalize now and cant do anything.

I Will give you more details as soon as i hear from you,

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Even the scammers get lazy, they used to send an elaborate mail with a sob story that had the potential of turning every stone into a heart. Seriously, all they have to do is keep their heart wrenching sob story on a notepad and paste it in the body of a mail. Or maybe this is a new strategy and they try to get people curious enough to reply? Some halfway decent punctuation wouldn't hurt either.