Why spam works

[webofevil]

You may be aware of the phenomenon whereby you receive unsolicited email messages appearing to contain offers for goods and services at amazing prices—with subject lines such as, for example, “Exquisite Replica”—but which might in fact not be quite what they appear. Some, if you can credit it, are even designed with malicious intent and are intended merely to trap the unwary into responding electronically, an act that could in turn initiate one of a number of elaborate online scams.

If you get the feeling that I am describing something that is quite well known, perhaps even obvious, then good for you, you’re probably one of those irredeemably cynical media-savvy kids that marketers fall over themselves to attract. But spare a thought for those who are less calculating—less jaded, goddammit—and thus less likely to spurn the blandishments of a complete stranger:

Exquisite Replica: Never sent my products Internet

I ordered $500.00 in watches from this company Credit card billed right away (with an additional $13.00 admin charge). Waited 3 weeks and never got them. When I phoned they were rude, and said they were out of stock of the product. Re-ordered the product (switched the one watch that was out of stock). Waited another 3 weeks and nothing.

They now are claiming that I got the watches, but will not give me any mailing info. Told me if I did not like it I could "hire a lawyer".

Might just do that, but expensive, because I am in Canada and of limited means.

End-story... avoid these people at all cost.

Windsorguy
Windsor, Ontario
Canada

Comments

[alfaguru.livejournal.com]

Street corner example: an unfortunate chap in Kensal Green who paid someone a hundred quid for a bucket full of "diamonds", which turned out to be the itsy bitsy remnants of a broken car windscreen.