CAMELOT SPAMALOT

CAMELOT, SPAMALOT

By Peter Fredson

September 9, 2005

I realize that most blogs this week are concerned with Hurricane Katrina, and rightfully so. But today I received an e-mail that was so outrageous, so ignorant, and exhibited such atrocious spelling errors that I must remark on it.

The e-mail purports to be from some enterprise that loans people money, a very serious matter, which surely requires some kind of accounting course and some knowledge of spelling and grammar to be considered a professional offer.

Here is the e-mail:

“We checked our recoerds and you may be able to get 4.0 /% for
r efinaance for your propebrty
wv”

“Unfortunavtelly, we were not able to contact you by phone.
Please enter all informvation more correcntly again and we
will process you ASAP.”
“http://www.nrtzlj.com/tkmcacxs.asp?y=335519379”;

In the first place I have never requested any loan from any company. My house is fully paid up, as are all of my bills. So I don’t know how I got on their “recoerds” for “r efinaance for my properbrty.”

I certainly would think several times before requesting a loan from someone who doesn’t know how to spell. And I would never send any “informvation more correctntly again” to anyone offering to send money via internet, and needing information like social security numbers, bank account numbers, etc. I have had the same telephone number for 30 years. If they were unable to contact me by phone they never tried.

So I must consider this “offer” not only as SPAM but also as SCAM.

I imagine other bloggers have received similar messages and wonder what can be done about them, other than quickly erasing them?