I Get Spam

Friday, January 13, 2006

And a lot of it. Luckily... GMail does a damn good job of catching the vast majority of it. But, just in case, every now and then I do go into the spam folder to make sure something that's not spam didn't inadvertently find its way in there. As I was scrolling through the subject lines of all the emails in that folder, I saw this one and had to chuckle:

"Viagra Soft Tabs as low as $3.86"

Viagra... soft tabs? Isn't Viagra supposed to... you know... have the opposite effect?

Maybe you should rethink your marketing campaign.

Posted at 2:38 PM by Nick | | |

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Comments:

I've gotten that one too. The best one, tho, proclaimed "You'll need new underpants!" I didn't read it, but I'm guessing they were selling laxatives.

Oddly, I still get more spam at my true name address than my blogging one, altho it hasn't been posted anywhere this century.

Posted at January 13, 2006 10:34 PM by

Anonymous

My yahoo address gets tons of interesting stuff like that. I think that my favorite subject line (for viagra) was "Your girlfriend called: your d!ck's too small."

SO wrong on SO MANY levels.

Posted at January 14, 2006 10:33 AM by

I've found that the best way to avoid spam is to get a .name email address. Unfortunately, it's also the best way to avoid a lot of email you actually want to get as well. Internet companies do a great job of keeping up on this sort of thing (go figure). I've had brick & mortar companies tell me that I should get a secondary email address if I want to do e-business with them.

Posted at January 14, 2006 11:09 AM by

Anonymous