I don’t know which is a worse sign about humanity: The crappy level of spam the spammers send, or the haunting thought that just maybe there is 0.0000001% of people gullible enough to respond.
This one purporting to be about lodging in London is pretty classic:
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UPDATE: Oooh, they added another! Much clearer now, as I feel their validity is much more center to heart now:
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I’ll tell you a worse sign about humanity – TV shows like “The Bachelor/Bachelorette”. I see that show and I’m just like, “WTF?! Are humans really like this?!”
However, as the Mr. explained to me last night when the topic came up, the shows are a good study of human personalities and people’s motivations. You know, people who are being trained in top secret clearance are shown snippets of the show… for, uh, educational purposes.
Either that or he just likes to watch the trainwrecks involving all the pretty, crazy people. What he does on Monday nights is really none of my business
It’s me. I’ve changed my profile a bit. But it’s still me.
What he does on Monday nights is all designed to make you as happy as a princess, I assure you.
And there has to be autobots putting together some of this spam nonsense, but at some level someone has to wonder, “Wait, why would we think this would work?”