If you’re Australian and you listen to Triple J, you’ll know what the Friday F dash dash dash wit (as they say) is. Basically, listeners ring up and nominate their fuckwit (oops) of the week. People nominate all kinds of crazy stuff: bad drivers who make them late for work, friends who play tricks but end up getting in to trouble, and even the weather.
My nominee for the Friday F—wit is the spammy virus that has infected my Gmail account, sending out messages to every person on my contacts list, both professional and friendly. THANKS A LOT. More concerning than the virus is the people who don’t realise when spam is spam, and who felt the need to send me abusive emails telling me not to sell them stuff.
Um, really?
In this day and age, if you can’t recognise spam from real mail – especially when said spam is poorly spelled and employs the grammatical accuracy usually reserved for pre-school children (I have an Honours degree in English, people!) – then seriously, you’re in trouble. The email I allegedly sent out to people is below (and please, don’t click on the links!):
Hello friends:
Welcome to join our company’ member club . Everybody here can enjoy our products’ member price. All customers can browse through our company’s home page—- www.buysell08.com> for latest information . Our products (notebook PC,digital camera,plasma and LCD TV,digital DV,Motos,phones,Mp3/4,and so on) all have low price and high quality in order to attract more new customers to cooperate with us . Hope here is your shopping heaven!
Please contact me via
e-mail: buysell08@ymail.com
Best regards
Yep – that looks like a real email to me.
If my WordPress account somehow ends up with a virus now, I’m going to be pissed.
