February 10th 2011 05:41 am
FUN4GOLD.COM: Playing With You Like You’re a Dumbo
Creativity knows no bounds among the desperate. Want proof? Take FUN4GOLD.COM who managed to flood my inbox with their illegible spam (Gold prices aren’t even that spam-worthy when around half of the sellers I know can beat their price!)
See what they did there? Those sneaky rascals manipulated the e-mail time stamp, dating it 2013, so their trash would rank highest in my inbox Unfortunately for them, my spam screener is vacuum tight so they ranked highest all right – in my trash folder.
I have to give them some credit for misdirected originality though, I mean I don’t even know how they do this. I promise to give this some research, but rather than spamming WoW players with sub-par Gold deals, I’d rather use it for more useful purposes. Maybe a perpetually top-ranked I love you e-mail for my girl this Valentine’s?
While investigating, I should probably alert the lawsuit-happy Daniel Balsam that there’s probably some law that FUN4GOLD is breaking with these timestamp shenanigans. Mr. Balsam has allegedly racked up $1 million in court judgments and lawsuits from suing e-mail spammers and this might be an easy case for him to win.
It also goes without saying that the e-mail message itself from FUN4GOLD borders on the disastrous. Take a look at that brilliant copy:
Notice how they can spare symbols to make those weird-eyebrowed, straight-lipped emoticons ^_^ but can’t even bother to put periods in their own URL address? Talk about priorities. Plus, what a timely discount code! Xmas? Really?
Or maybe the writer got schizophrenic halfway through writing this e-mail (that happens when your job is the pits) and he began greeting me with a Happy New Year but then just decided to copy paste the previous Christmas e-mail, discount code and all.
Oh the work ethic these days!
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