I woke up this morning to find Google Notifier telling me I had 205 new messages. What the hell?

Ah. They’re all failed deliv­ery notices. Some spamming bastard has sent out a batch of unsoli­cited e-mails spoofed to look like they came from someone at thinkdrastic.net.

Rest assured it wasn’t me. I hate spam as much as the rest of you.

Nope, I just get to clear up the mess after­wards. No doubt I’ll find my domain on all sorts of black­lists now. Oh great joy. I’m in such a great mood now.

Oh, happy christ­mas everybody.

Don’t send out an email that starts:

Dear XX XXXXX

…then contin­ues with:

Thank you for recently enter­ing our North Carolina Sweet Potato compet­i­tion in conjunc­tion with Sainsbury’s, Onlinetravel.com and American Airlines.

You what? I entered a Sweet Potato compet­i­tion!? When?

We received an incred­ible number of entries and on this occasion we’re sorry to advise that you weren’t one of our lucky winners.

Now you’re just being mean :-(

If you would prefer not to receive this type of inform­a­tion please click here.

You complete numpties. There’s no link to click! GAAAAHHH!!!

One of the best spam/scam messages that I’ve seen in quite some time — luckily Thunderbird’s spam filter missed it or I might never have seen it…

Dear Sir

We are Attorneys and Executor of the estate of Late Sir. Dennis Thatcher, I wish to notify you that late Sir. Dennis Thatcher, made you a benefi­ciary to his will. He left the sum of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling (350,000 BPS) to you in the codicil and last testa­ment to his will. This may sound strange and unbeliev­able to you, but it is real and true. Being a widely traveled man, he must have been in contact with you in the past or simply you were nomin­ated to him by one of his numer­ous Friends abroad that wished you good.

Mmm hmmm? Thats why you sent it from a free webmail account in Germany is it? Thought so.