Sunday, January 08, 2006

A neighbor of a neighbor is my... neighbor, too?

You know how newspapers like to print a "stupid criminals" file with entertaining stories of illegal folly? I think the new and updated version should be "stupid spam." I just received this one...

Dear Jennifer,
We are sending you this email because a neighbor of a neighbor of yours recently purchased septic remedy from us...

A neighbor of a neighbor? Wouldn't that still be my neighbor? Or is this just a way of saying: you have no idea who gave us your name, in fact we probably bought it as part of a list with 100,000 other names from some retailer or merchant who you trusted with your email address (why?). Sheesh.

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