Stupid spammers

Earlier today I was sorting through the Junk Mail folder for a Hotmail alias I rarely use and ran across yet another variation on the Nigerian scam e-mail. This one was pretty sleazy — the sender claimed to be a Christian preacher in Sri Lanka who knew a wealthy man who was killed in the tsunami but had left $8 million in the bank and … well, you know how the rest of it goes.

My favorite part, though, was the free Webmail service that this scammer had chosen. Do you really think a preacher would have an account at gayfetishpool.de?

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