Flatulent pit viper
I’m sure that you’re a lot like me in the fact that you get quite a bit of spam e-mail. You may also be like me in the fact that you have the majority of it pretty well filtered out of your inbox, perhaps funneled into a junk folder.
I scan through that junk folder every couple of days just to make sure no legitimate emails slipped through the cracks and made their way into Spamsville. While doing so, I see my share of Nigerian money scams and pen1s en1arg3ment claims, but one subject line really caught my eye this morning… “flatulent pit viper.”
FLATULENT PIT VIPER!
I clicked. It was for discount medications delivered straight to your door.
I’m sure the subject line was generated by some script to try to beat spam filter algorithms, but nevertheless I can vividly see this miserable snake with a gas problem slithering across the jungle floor. I love it. Bravo, spammer, bravo. You’ve captured my imagination, and for that I am grateful.
But no thanks, I don’t need Cialis.
[tags]spam, viper, email, junk[/tags]
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- 07.17.07 / 10am
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- Anecdotes, Creativity

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