well, that was refreshingly honest

[kirkcudbright]

Received in a spam today:

"This spam was sent using an innocent third party as the fake sender address who will pick up bounces and misdirected spam complaints. It went out via a third party host (broadband host in the USA), i.e. stealing someone else's service. It was sent to addresses harvested off websites at random to people who have no interest whatsoever in fake watches, stealing their time.

Whoever is sending this spam has no regard for other people whatsoever."

Comments

[marktheorc.livejournal.com]

They're obviously honest, did you buy one of whatever they're selling?

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

Hell no, it was spam. I used it to train my spam filter, and deleted it. Spam is so banal and tedious; it's for people who can't figure out how to set up a Ponzi scheme.

[frobzwiththingz.livejournal.com]

Sadly, spam seems to be a perfectly sustainable business model, unlike said ponzi schemes.

[c1.livejournal.com]

Consider the economics, and it makes perfect sense. IIRC, take-up of spam is around .0000001% or so. But there's basically no cost, which is why Nigerian scams work even better than straight spam.

Having said that, I'm amused at the refreshing honesty of these ffff...ellows.