Sometimes, businesses do really well at email marketing.
Sometimes, less so.
And then there’s spam.
Spam can range from dull noise…
To dangerous…
…to funny.
I once received an email from a couple of spammers which actually made me laugh.
Dave and Carol were so lazy they couldn’t even be bothered to include a naughty link or malicious attachment.
Because I found their message more amusing than most of the rubbish I receive, I actually spent a few precious seconds reading it.
Dave wrote:
People say that if something looks or sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
If an email looks fake or too good to be true, don’t click on any links, open any downloads or attachments or “email back for further information”.
That’ll only invite more rubbish into your inbox (or worse).
The trouble is that a lot of spam actually looks genuine and causes trouble for people every day.
It’s easily avoidable if you ignore emails that ‘smell wrong’, like this one, which I got, purporting to be from HMRC, with a stretched image, poor English and terrible formatting:
