Disturbing Spam
 

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Potted Meat Food ProductI have something like 15 different email addresses. Seriously… all the websites that I maintain have at least one address that goes to me, plus my personal address, plus my “anonymous” addresses…. Mac mail does a pretty good job at filtering out spam and junk mail, but it still lets a few through.

I received this one tonight and it disturbed me. While I realize that this is not an unheard of culinary choice, the directness of the speaker was scary:

Hello my friend!

I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog, if medicine prices here (Link to Hong Kong Website) are bad.

Look, the site and call me 1-800 if its wrong..

My dog and I are still alive :)

I think I’ll go dial 1-800 and see what happens.

10 Responses to “Disturbing Spam”
 

My question is..how can he kill himself and then eat his dog?

Da Duck wrote on June 22nd, 2007 at 4:22 am

 
 

Did his dog get a say about this? I bet he is in the corner, mumbling about those damned meds and how he is really that sure about them…

kate1976 wrote on June 22nd, 2007 at 4:48 am

 
 

i’m so glad i don’t have to open any emails from names i don’t recognize. love my delete key.

when you dial 1-800, tell the bastard not to eat his dog. he can do whatever he wants to himself, but that dude had better leave the dog alone.

hellohahanarf wrote on June 22nd, 2007 at 5:37 am

 
 

Holy shit - I got that one about two years ago and actually wrote a post about it, too, asking how he can possibly kill himself first and THEN eat his dog.

Avitable wrote on June 22nd, 2007 at 6:19 am

 
 

I’m thinking that in general, it’s not a good idea to eat anything out of a can that has to tell you it’s food.

Ginamonster wrote on June 22nd, 2007 at 2:13 pm

 
 

Da Duck - I don’t… maybe he plans to slit his wrists and snack while he bleeds?

kate1976 - I imagine the dog is wishing that the author would just take those meds and get it over with.

hello - Well you know, some dogs deserve eatin’ :D
Avitable - So this guy has been making empty threats for over 2 years? Sheesh. Shit or get off the pot I say.

Ginamonster - Food isn’t the word that bothers me the most… I’m deeply disturbed by the word “product.”

jester wrote on June 22nd, 2007 at 3:14 pm

 
 

Exactly!

Avitable wrote on June 22nd, 2007 at 3:16 pm

 
 

i’m sure someone in hong kong has a really screwed up translator program. i bet the message was really supposed to say, “i’m ready to eat myself and kill the dog…” when is someone going to make a translator program that catches and understands the nuances of human speech, regardless of the language?

danny wrote on June 22nd, 2007 at 4:12 pm

 
 

Isn’t Spam already potted dog?

Liz wrote on June 22nd, 2007 at 5:14 pm

 
 

danny - I’m more inclined to think it was supposed to be eat my dog and kill myself. I don’t think a computer will ever be able to accurately translate all the slang and colloquial statements.

Liz - It’s dog food, anyway.

jester wrote on June 22nd, 2007 at 5:16 pm

 

Say something already!