Oh, spammers

[hummingwolf]

For the last week or so, I've been getting these notifications about some "greeting ecard" or other that someone's supposedly sent me, each one purportedly from a different internet greeting cards site--Hallmark, 123Greetings, etc.--and each one quite properly deposited by Yahoo into my Bulk Mail folder because none of them is from any of those sites at all. Naturally, I look at the links and laugh at them without ever, ever considering going to the sites to get whatever advertising or Trojan horse they want to dump on me.

Anyway, each "greeting ecard" can be from a different kind of person: I've gotten notices that "a relative" has sent me a card, "a friend," "a coworker." This morning, though, the spammers/tricksters/fraudsters have outdone themselves with this:

"You've received a greeting ecard from a Worshipper!"

I'd really like to know the name of my Worshipper.

Comments

[forest.livejournal.com]

I have been worshipped 25 times this week....lol

[blue-by-you.livejournal.com]

LOL!! That spammer gets points for creativity and humor. I want a worshipper.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

haha! i'm getting lots and lots of those to my work addresses (at church). as of thursday, no worshippers. in my case, that seems like a bad thing. *g*

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

But was that you, or was it the model in your photos?

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I wonder what's next? "You've received a greeting ecard from an alien overlord!"

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see I've been out of touch with the world of spam and viruses. There was a spike in greeting card spam beginning about a month ago, spreading a virus as it goes. Pretty evil stuff, but one gets used to it.

Yeah, they really should get to know their target markets better! Churches tend to hear more from worshippers than hummingwolves do, and rightly so. :-)

[stevenglassman.livejournal.com]

::worships you, but only on Sundays::

[danalog.livejournal.com]

Aww, I thought I was the only one getting ecards from worshippers

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Only on one day per week?!?! You dare!!!



...

Oh well. I suppose that's better than being remembered only two days per year.


::noselick::

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Not just you! Though I checked an alternate e-mail account which had acquired 732 messages in the Bulk Mail folder and found none from any Worshippers at all. Lots of mates (both Class and School), Neighbors, and Neighbours, but no Worshippers.