Unintentional Humor From Email Spam

Despite my best efforts, I still get a handful of spam in my mailbox every day. Happily, it’s all obviously spam, so this isn’t a huge inconvenience. Lately, the modus operandi of spammers seems to be to send messages with shocking or eye-catching “breaking news” sorts of subject lines. I really do pity the poor fools who don’t open the messages, but just glance at the subject lines and think they’re true. (”OMG, ‘Afghan Bombing Kills President Bush’! Wow!”)

That said, the obvious idea is to come up with email subject lines that will entice the recipient into opening the message (and thus seeing the ad, or becoming infected with the virus, or whatever). Shamelessly, spammers want to try to catch the attention of anyone and everyone, and so aren’t at all afraid to tackle both sides of an issue. Occasionally, however, this can become a little bit absurdly comical:

At 10:51, the earth really is flat. But, at 11:14, those inbred freaks who believe that sort of horse patty have disbanded their “society”. Sure they did.

Sheesh.

Incidentally, what idiot would be dumb enough to click on an email promising child porn? It brings to mind a word - one that begins with “e”, and ends in “ntrapment”…