It’s time again for the “best of spam”! These are the cream of the crop of crap that attempt to sneak in past my approval process. And they make me laugh!
They’re written by people whose second (and perhaps third) language is English with a fervent hope that their comment will be approved and their thing, whatever it is, will have found a place to get free advertising. Their target isn’t me, it’s you. They’re hoping I and others like me will be careless enough to approve their flattering prose and give them a place to be seen by you. This isn’t going to happen! I delete dozens per week and sometimes it goes into the hundreds. They generally come from computers overseas and they arrive in the millions. If I was really bothered by it I’d buy a spam-filtering program but it’s not that big of a deal. And it’s rather amusing. I think of them as my daily affirmations because they’re usually quite complimentary!
An example from a dating website: When some one searches for his essential thing, therefore he/she wants to be available that in detail, so that thing is maintained over here.
From a knock-off sneaker seller: Amazing! You know I love your blog!!
Actually, I was tempted to approve that one.
From a knock-off handbag distributor: That is some inspirational stuff. Never knew that opinions could be this varied. Be positive to maintain writing.
And finally: You’ve finished my four working day lengthy hunt! God Bless you gentleman. Have a wonderful day.
I think my favourites are either the ones that are written in Chinese or the ones that take up half a page with symbols, gibberish and nonsense. A lot of websites have moved to an online form for their contact page instead of using an email address and that’s annoying but reasonable. They’re sick of the spam. Every time someone enters their email address to win $1-million cash or answers a quick (and super easy) trivia question that pops up on their screen, they’re ensuring the spam-bots are being fed and the compliments will keep on coming!
Confession: I love those spam emails, cause that means it’s one less email to answer (not that I mind answering emails, but YOU get it!) Happy Canada Day – hope you and your computer have an amicable separation! xo
I do get it. I don’t get the volume of email that you do but I get my share! Happy Eh Day to you too, eh, ya hoser?