Thank you Akismet from keeping this stuff from the public. But, to the spammer…
Is there a difference between “checking constantly” and “checking continuously”? Or, how about “seeking” and “looking”?
All this checking seems to have been done within one minute of each other.
Doug, I check your blog constantly (staying up all night if need be) and just wanted to tell you that this post made me laugh my head off.
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Thanks, Cailey. Usually, my blog puts people to sleep. I laughed when I went to check spam this morning and saw this. I make sure not to leave the phishing links and emails out of any screen captures.
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SPAM can be both hilarious and at times, annoying… saw a figure that 89% of emails sent in 2010 was spam.
My recent encounter, which like yours, was rather humorous:
I RTed a friend’s joke :
Nice… RT @sandtree: RT @_Apoyando Egypt needs a new president. I need a summer job. This could be perfect.
Within minutes, I got a mention from a user I don’t follow, and who has since been suspended. They wrote:
Lookin for a summer job. I found out a perfect way to work from home… [followed by crappy link]
I replied:
Wow… intelligent spam… guess you didnt get the joke, my dear watson (jeopardy and sherlock holmes pun X 2)
I’ve RSSed with the hopes that I want get ‘put to sleep’ haha. Thnx for the share 🙂
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I don’t doubt you that that spam figure is that high. It’s amazing how we just accept it as a cost of doing business. Thankfully, we have spam filters and Twitter ready to remove these accounts for us.
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No way of verifying it, but the figure comes from this source which seems at least somewhat reputable.
http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/state-internet-2010/
Spam gets smarter, and so do spam filters… it’s a spam war out there with nearly 9/10 emails being spam!
cheers
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