First came self-service gas stations. Then self-service supermarket checkouts. And now, apparently self-serve SPAM, per the extortive email below.
There's no hyperlink to click on.
No email address to write back to the Nigerian prince and claim my untold riches.
Just vague instructions to send $700 worth of Bitcoin to some big, long string of letters and numbers.
Though I do appreciate the friendly "howdy" from Saudi arabia.
I could imagine these guys robbing a bank. "This is a hold-up. Put your money in this bag. We'll be sitting over there."
The way I see it, there are three main problems with their tack.
1. Send Bitcoin? Um, how do I that? From Paypal? My online bank account? Seriously, I work in IT, and have no idea how to do it.
2. Or what? Did they lock up my PC with ransonware? Kidnap my dog and will force her to listen to Ariana Grande talk? No, they claim they have dirt on me, and will show it to my friends. Which leads to...
3. If I received an email with the subject, "Wait until you see the gross thing John Doe did," I'd delete without opening it. Unless I needed fodder for another rant about SPAM. And I think I can speak for my friends when I say they're too smart to fall for it as well.
Though I've never assigned a letter grade to the SPAM emails I receive, if I were to do so, this one wouldn't even rate an E for "effort."
And if, by chance, you do get an email with the subject, "Wait until you see the gross thing Michael Seese did," you can ignore it. It's not real, or it was photo-shopped, or something.
In all seriousness, I looked through my record of posts and saw my last entry on SPAM was two years ago. And though I know I've gotten a few in the interim, it really has tailed off for me. How about you? Are you getting more or less SPAM than you were a few years back?
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