Spam of the Week

I received this spam today:

Subject: did you see that on the news?

From: Vince V. Edwardsd, III <drNOshockertxef@zoznam.sk>

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206-338-6061

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Sincerely,

Dionne Schmidt

The fact that this spam email even exists (along with others much like it) would seem to be an instance proof that they must work — that is, the sender of the spam must get enough of a response rate for it to be profitable. I can’t imagine anyone would do this over and over (for I get many dozens like this every single day) without reward.

Someone must respond to things like this. That’s alarming!

Someone gets an email selling college degrees — an email that claims to be sent from Slovakia and appears to be written by a crazed illiterate short on brain cells and high on something illegal — and that someone thinks it looks legitimate and calls that Washington (state) phone number.

Are there really people that dumb operating a computer?

I mean, I really have trouble accepting that.

Is there something else going on here that I’m missing? Some other reason why a spammer would send emails like this?

There are days when I think the evolution of the human species could use a little boost…

Yo, Darwin! Faster, please…