Monday, December 13, 2010

Well, that's odd

UPDATE 12/14:  According to our commenters, this same address has been spamming lots of people with helpful tips, recipes, and insightful quotes.  Clearly, this is bigger than we ever imagined.
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Guys, check out this spam email I received today.  This is real, I'm not making this up:


from: Tech Support <15Min1@sndv2.com>
to: AGEOFF@motionpicturecoop.com
date: Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:16 AM
subject: Details you asked for.

Recipe: Overnight Fruit Salad

 Ingredients

 1  small  head cabbage, shredded (about 5 cups)
 1  15oz  can pineapple chunks, well drained
 2  11oz  cans mandarin orange sections, drained
 2  cups  seedless green grapes
 1/3  cups  light raisins
 1 1/2  cups  cubed Edam cheese
 1  8oz  carton lemon yogurt
 1  cup  dairy sour cream


 Instructions :

 1.  Place cabbage on bottom of large salad bowl.
 2.  Top with pineapple chunks, mandarin orange sections, grapes and
raisins. Sprinkle cheese atop.
3.  Combine yogurt and sour cream; spread over salad, sealing to edge of
bowl
4.  Cover and refrigerate for 4 to 24 hours. If desired, garnish with
lemon and lime twist, curly endive, and a grape.


How thoughtful!

-Geoff

4 comments:

  1. I just got an e-mail by the same sender...mine had this on it:

    "Quote:

    There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph
    of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as
    angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

    Vonnegut
    from The Sirens of Titan"

    Damn weird, that's how I found your site!

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  2. Yeah, truly weird. I have received about 3 of these kinds of emails in the last 2 days. Similar to the ones you brought up. This is getting huge, son.

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  3. Oh wow. I can only conclude that there's some kind of vigilante spammer out there, spamming useful tips and insightful quotes to those who need it most.

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  4. Um . . . this recipe is VERY similar to one that a friend passed along to me, that a friend of his found online. Only sour cream instead of yogurt and a few other differences -- but a very similar cabbage-fruit slaw to this one. I have no idea why this would be in any way relevant, but it *is* coincidental.

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