Yes, it’s another spam rant.  If it weren’t for my virus software, PC-cillin, I’d be a goner.  Or, at least I’d probably have several viruses running around my computer by now.

The one that came close?  CNN.  Or at least someone trying to be them.  I’ve never gotten a spam saying they were CNN, so I wasn’t really thinking about danger.  The email looked pretty good.  It was laid out well, had a CNN logo and listed the top 10 stories and videos from the famous news outlet.  One of the videos sounded interesting, so I actually clicked on the link.

There have been times when PC-cillin has warned me that a site might be a phishing site.  This time was different.  Rather than displaying the web page, a message came up telling me that PC-cillin would not allow me to display the site.  If I really wanted to see it, I’d have to change the settings in the PC-cillin software.

This made me wonder if perhaps something might be amiss!  And, of course when I checked the link I was being sent to, it had nothing to do with news.  More something about toys, which I’ll bet aren’t for the 3-6 age group.  Whew, just snuck out of that one!

I’ve also noticed that some of the traditional spammers are getting lazy.  The other day I got an email, and rather than the long, heart-wrenching story this type of mail usually contains, all it said was:

• Hello, I am Mr Name Deleted, the an external auditor of a bank in Singapore.I have a proposal  to discuss about a certain Dormant Investment Account of a deceased customer.Please contact me  through my email below if you are interested to know more about this transaction.It will be beneficial to all parties concerned.  Yours Faithfully,

If these fools insist on clogging up my email system, you’d think they’d at least take the time to write a good story.

Then, I got a junk email from someone named “Speece Poullion”.  I looked that up on the Internet just for fun.  As far as I can tell, both those names are actually last names.  Must have been that the sender thought the name rolled off the tongue.  On the other hand, the email address domain was from Denmark.  Maybe that’s a real name over there.

I just can’t believe that people are still falling for these stupid tricks.  I can only assume they are, because the spammers must get some result or they’d probably stop.

On the other hand, consider this famous definition of insanity:

• Doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result.

So, maybe spammers aren’t really bad people — they’re just insane.