The Annual Turkey Coma Day

It is Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend. I have an image blog for the occasion. Enjoy!

I Do Not Like Green Eggs And Spam

 

If they're not trying to scam you with get rich quick schemes from Cancer Widows, Unscrupulous Bankers, Former Cabinet Ministers, and Beloved Former Tyrants (yes, the capitalization is intentional), they do the other route and spam you with crap you don't need in your email or your blog comments. I've been getting a lot of spam lately in one of my email accounts, to the point where I wonder if blocking them means they're actually blocked, because I swear, I keep seeing the same emails coming up. Or there's this bit of nonsense, which tried to get posted in a post on the Easter Bunny of all things.

The Rothschild family is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812).

TIME TO SEE THE LIGHT IS NOW!!!
Don't lose this life opportunity. 
Join ILLUMINATI and achieve
WEALTH, FAME AND POWERS.
Remember you are human for a purpose therefore serve goodness and strive for the benefit of your species and you'll be rewarded for your stewardship, and gain financial freedom today.

And that crap was followed by a series of links that I did not copy and paste, as I'd rather not give them any site traffic, but which featured discussions like joining the illuminati, the Moldova illuminati, and the Romanian illuminati. Because going down that particular rabbit hole sounds like a swell idea. It's really not.

There is no Illuminati. There once was, but there's not anymore, as much as the conspiracy theorists would like you to believe. The Freemasons exist, but then again, they're weirdos. And the Rothschilds exist, but then again, their patriarch is the model for Monty Burns.

No, the Illuminati in this case is nothing more than an attempt to get some poor sucker actually believing it's a good idea to click on those links. At which time, someone at the far end of a long line of nonsense emails starts data mining you and trying to figure out a way to get into your bank account.

And peddling in conspiracy theories is their game, which means there's no shortage of rubes out there in the world willing to believe it.

This is somewhat less annoying than other conspiracy theories. I may not see this spammer for years. Considerably worse would be the flat earth brigade, who scream bloody murder every single time there's a story about space that the world is flat because, well, they said so. It never fails. Despite the mountain of evidence that speaks to a globe. Still, it is annoying, and to them I would say this. 

Do us all a favour and get fitted for cement shoes.

The Curse Of The Internet Scammers

 They are a vile and loathsome lot, and serve no purpose in life. They contaminate our email junk folders with get rich schemes and spam we couldn't care less about. They try to spam our comments with off topic nonsense that proves they're not paying any attention to what we're actually saying. I speak, of course, of that cursed sub-species of humanity otherwise known as homo sapiens spammeritis annoyingus, aka the internet scammer. This came through my email recently.

Please i need your help

GREETINGS AND BLESSINGS OF THE DAY TO YOU, I am Miss. Jane konan, Please can i trust you? to assist me to invest my inheritance fund in your country? and to help me to come over to your country for the betterment of my life and continue my education. I will be happy to hear from you.

Please, get back to me via my private email address:( missjanekonan1@att.net ).for more information.

BEST REGARDS,
MISS.JANE KONAN.

Well, this one is shorter than some of the essay length crap I tend to see. But the tell-tales of the spammer are clear to see. She (he, or it) starts out with all capitals in a sentence, which comes across as screaming. There are punctuation and capitalization issues in this brief bit of nonsense, such as putting a period after Miss, and not capitalizing the surname. You'd think they'd know this, but of course, Jane Konan isn't their real name.

They ask if they can trust me. About as much as I'd trust you, which is not at all. Because if this was real (it's not), I'd be rifling through that fake inheritance inside of a minute.

I mean, why not? It's the sort of thing whoever is on the other side of this long line of email addresses is willing to do to the poor sucker who actually believes it. Once they've got them hooked, they'll mention the 'processing fees' or 'administrative fee' of a few thousand dollars that must be sent first to free up that money. They're perfectly willing to screw people over that way.

But at any rate, I don't buy it. I've seen this all too often, and am wise to your ways.

Nice try, numbskull. You really must be desperate if you keep doing this, as opposed to... oh, finding an honest way to make a living. But it won't work on me. Maybe you'll get lucky and one or two people in that list of half a million random email addresses you've sent this off to will be dumb enough to believe it, and dumb enough to send that 'administrative fee'. 

Or maybe you'll just do the world a favour and drop into Middle Earth and run into this guy.

Bad Decisions And Good Cupcakes

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