I have gotten those emails before where it said "Increase you traffic" and then it showed a picture of your site but today I got one that wasn't even my site.
"I visited REINVENTED.NET, and noticed that you're not listed on some search engines! I think we can offer you a service which can help you increase traffic and the number of visitors to your website."
Well that's nice but maybe next time; send it to the right person. How can somebody trust a service when obviously their random email generator doesn't work? I have not posted at reinvented for a while now so I wonder how many actually got this email.
As you can see, I hate spam..
Comments
Steven Garrity - September 12, 2002 12:17 pm
I've gotten the same email before as well (with Reinvented in it). I suppose they've crawled reinvented.net for any email addresses, including the comments.
Steven Garrity - September 12, 2002 12:19 pm
This is m y favourite spam so far.
Steven Garrity - September 12, 2002 12:20 pm
Oops - wrong link. Actually, <i>this</i> is my real favourite spam so far.
Stephen DesRoches - September 12, 2002 12:54 pm
that’s the exact one I got today (only change is the little people were standing vertical while being attached to the site and a few word replacments). Not much of a change since yours in March of 2001.
last week I got one for newrecruit.org that was displayed on a Mac laptop.
plus, 300,000 seems a little far fetched
Stephen DesRoches - September 12, 2002 1:02 pm
Already in my 8 months of posting I am going to refer to my archives.
Picking out the good ones
This was a complaint from Chris Pirillo just last night. He claims it's his best way of getting rid of the span so if he deletes an important email, it would be his fault instead of the spam filters.
Steven - September 13, 2002 1:19 pm
I love that one with the little guys getting sucked into the site! Too bad I never get one with my own site in it!