By now I'm used to spam selling Viagra, pills to enlarge something I don't even own, proposing to tranfer funds (yeah, right), searching for information for bank accounts I don't even have, etc. Those have become commonplace.
Today I received two that were a little different. One was in Russian, but was a run-of-the-mill let-us-host-your-online-services sort of ad (I know this because of a translator program, since Russian is from the one language family of the Indo-European languages which I haven't studied to some degree).
But the one that took the cake was one that...at least honestly...proposed to host web services so I could do illegal things like trade child porn, money launder, buy people's credit card numbers, etc. That one I sent to one of our IS guys and the FBI. I'm not sure if they can trace it, but it seems if you're going to be so blatant about it, then it couldn't hurt to send it to the authorities. Mind you, not to sound like a nutcase but I'm enough of a paranoid conspiracy-theory junkie that I wouldn't normally bring myself to the attention of the government (let's not forget that Hitler started out by collecting information on and from the Jews before doing anything with it)...but this was just wrong, wrong, wrong, so there I was, sending a tip to the authorities.
I do wish if I were to get spam it would at least be targeted correctly, i.e., hello, I'm female, and I don't read Russian, and by the way I'm fairly law-abiding, thank you, and I'm not so much of an idiot that I believe any of the 'we need your help to get money out of Africa' crap.
Does anyone actually respond to that sort of stuff? I mean, the scams I can see people falling for, but do men actually go, wow, yeah, I want some of that Viagra? Ugh.
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