Through cruel (pronounced in melodramatic fashion with emphasis on all the verbs) twist of fate, I wound up clicking on a spam link the other day.
I never click on spam links. To mix a few metaphors, one has to be rather too many brain cells short of a four-cylinder engine to click on anything in a spam message.
I do have an excuse for my actions, although rather a feeble one: I was skimming rather quickly through my new mail and went from one email, from my father, to another. The second email was about replica watches.
Why is he sending me emails about replica watches?
The email was in a similar format to some of his others (a paragraph of text followed by a link), but the words “replica watches” and that link somehow caught my attention. An ominous orchestral theme should have started up as I moved my mouse, in slow motion of course, towards that little blue underlined set of characters…
I realised yesterday, after receiving another message about replica watches that I’d been duped. By the bizarre combination of a spam message formatted exactly the same as another, and the fact that Thunderbird occasionally doesn’t update the header info (from address, subject, etc) at the top of the message when I flick through too fast.
And somewhere there’s a twit with Dr Evil ambitions who’s currently rubbing his hands together with glee, because the “sucker” light has just flicked on next to my email address. I can look forward to an inundation of messages about cheap gucci bags, replica watches, “enlargement” remedies, and so on.
Needless to say, I won’t be buying that Breitling at the fraction of the price of the original.
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