Spam for Stupid People

Seriously, how weird must you be to fall for this shit?

Normally spam is just annoying but today I got one that I cannot imagine anyone could be stupid enough to fall for. It was from Woody Allen, who apparently is a big yahoo fan because his email is adaer22@yahoo.com and the reply to is zbgfsgdr@yahoo.com . I guess it is not THAT Woody Allen because the real thing could probably afford allen@woody.com  – although having the domain name woody.com could possibly set one up for a whole different type of spam email.

This Woody Allen apparently works at NCR Corporation. I am sure National Cash Registers is really interested in statistical consulting and has a lot of SAS and SPSS macros they want me to write for them. As they say, they “offer great interest to do a purchase agreement”. The fact that they can’t work a function to pull my name from a list or figure that the number 4 comes between 3 and 5 would never make me wonder if this was a real email.

From: Mr.Woody Allen <adaer22@yahoo.com>

Subject: Please Quote.
Date: July 27, 2012 10:01:17 PM PDT
To: annmaria@thejuliagroup.com

Reply-To: zbgfsgdr@yahoo.com

Dear,

Having gone through your listed products, we offer great interest to do a purchase agreement with your company. Please get back to us with the following information

Please Quote.

1. Prices FOB
2. Payment terms
3. Delivery Period
5. Specified delivery date assuming from the Date of Order.

Please your quick reply will be highly appreciated

Regards,

Mr. Woody Allen
Purchasing Operations Manager.
NCR Corporation

Just as the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math and cocaine is God’s way of telling you that  you’re making too much money, I believe spam like this is a penalty on stupid people who use the internet.