Spam. When not moonlighting as a revolting pork-based processed meat encased in a can, it is by definition unsolicited, electronic junk mail.
Or in layman’s terms on an average day at work just a real pain in the backside. Usually containing an unlikely combination of Russian mail order brides, destitute African students or a muddled-up jumble of pornographic type meshed with random rhetorical questions and bad spelling. All irrevocably destined for the Outlook trashcan.
Except of course when it’s really funny, like this one sent to The Punch this morning:
I am the sort of hombre who enjoys to taste radical things. Currently I’m building my personalized pv panels. I am doing it all alone without the assistance of my men. I am utilizing the internet as the only path to acheive this. I came across a truly brilliant site which explains how to make pv panels and wind generators. The place explains all the steps required to solar panel construction.I’m not sure bout how accurate the info given there is. If some people over here who have experience with these things can have a look and give your feedback in the site it will be grand and I’d really treasure it, cauze I extremely like solar panel construction.Tnx for reading this. U people rock.
Why, thank you, faceless spammer for photovoltaic panel installation. And goodbye.
Like most websites where public comments are allowed The Punch gets its share of spammers trying to slip promotional material onto the website in the guise of ordinary comments. For the most part they’re instantly recognisable as spam but increasingly there are instances of slightly (but not by much) more clever spammer who tries to embed a link to a website into an innocent-looking, on-topic remark.
Over to you. What are the best or worst attempts at spam you’ve seen?
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