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Monday, September 20, 2010

Hello! Do I Have a Stupid Sign on My Forehead?

I've blogged before about spam that isn't comment spam because it is send directly to my email rather than going through the comment form on my blogs.  Here is the email as I received it with the spammed website changed to fit my current mood:

Hi,
I know this email is out of the blue, but I just posted an article on my blog entitled “a very nice spammed title to supposedly spark my interest” at http://im_a_total_loser_of_a_spammer.spammedwebsite.com . Anyway I figured I’d bring it to your attention in case you thought it interesting enough to drop a quick mention on your site about it as I’m trying to increase readership of my blog.
 Either way, hope you have a good week
 Thanks,
Cindy Cullen

Well thank-you so much Cindy.  I really appreciate your kind offer.  I'm sure my readers like me are absolutely thrilled with spam but what the heck just in case I am going to decline your offer.  You see the contact form on my blogs is for reader who want or need to contact me not for spamming.  I love your honesty though since few actually admit they want to increase the readership of their blogs.  Since the link you provided is not an actual blog that leaves me shaking my head a bit but again at least you were honest with your intentions.  So I have a question for you Cindy.. Do I have a stupid sign on my forehead?  

I'm serious every single blogger out there want's to increase their traffic!  The reality is most bloggers do so using legitimate methods without spamming.  And who the heck are you to think you even have the right to suggest to me what my readers might be interested in?  Should I point out that every blogger of which you are not one is trying to increase their readership?

Personally, I am sick and tired of getting these types of messages several times a week.  I have now started taking affirmative action thanks to my old PC days.  That means if you the spammer sends me one of these types of messages I will seriously launch the LARTs  (loser attitude re-adjustment tool).  Quite frankly that means you will have an attitude adjustment forced on you through the loss of your internet services or whatever other measures I deem appropriate.  Heck I may be in a good mood and turn you into blog fodder.  Or I might be in a really pissy mood so that means you will lose your account and being in an even pissier mood may mean your IP will get a warning from their upstream provider.  My goodness depending on my mood your IP may be reported as a spam IP as well.  If I'm just toying with you I may only write a blog post about how your IP in this case going through Google so I will complain to them while posting your email cindycullen84@gmail.com You do know that spamming is against Google's TOS don't you?  Well just in case you don't I made sure you got a reminder.  And I will keep launching them until you get the idea that spamming me or anyone else is not a real good idea.

So thank-you Cindy for wishing me a good week.  I am certainly going to be having a good week knowing you will be shopping for a new IP.  It is a real bright spot and one I have absolutely no problem sharing with my readers.  I'm going to chuckle most of the week knowing you are going to have one huge headache to settle all because you picked the wrong person to spam.  I hope you enjoy your week as well.  Toodles!

Garden Gnome
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