Unless the puppy's counterfeit, I'm not seeing the angle

[benma]

This is, bar none, the weirdest Nigerian scam e-mail I've ever gotten

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[stationary_jew]

I hear good things about Yorkies, but I can't imagine one would enjoy the transatlantic crossing by itself...

There we go. The dog needs a handler for the voyage, which involves you flying to whatever country and being taken advantage of whilst there. A good bit less direct than usual.

[elisel]

That is bizarre.

I've been getting oddly-titled spam for a while now that consists of snippets from badly written stories. Not porn or anything, either - just badly-written stories. And the e-mails have weird titles like... *checks current list*

I have done that last wk
Saturday night fever again
gospel amnesiac

[benma]

Usually the weird prose snippets are a means of getting past a spam filter -- "Clearly here is content, of some sort," says the spam filter, and it has to read the e-mail you get from your friends, so if it's seemingly random, that's just par. Usually it'd be prose snippets followed with some advice about increasing your penis length, though, so not sure why people'd be spamming you with the snippets all by themselves.

[alsafi]

The spam with just the snippet is, I'm told (via someone on Making Light, I seem to recall), a means of checking if it's a live email address. If you open it, it sends a notice back that yes, there is a person on the other end of this address--it's not just a random box that the user has dropped. Then the spammers with something to sell start sending more stuff your way.

Pernicious f*cks, spammers.

[sneakyninjaevil]

It seems like they would have a difficult time convincing you to give them your bank account number. I hear Yorkies don't travel well electronically. Bad for the digestion.