Say it with SPAM

[chrystalline]

I’m mildly amused at the moment, because I never considered ecards as a method of sending spam, before.  Now, I have one friend who regularly sends ecards for every holiday, big or little, and while I probably don’t say it enough, I appreciate it very much.  (Love you, girl - that latest one was so funny I had to play it again for my mom!)

Lately, however, I’ve been getting ecard notices from unfamiliar email addresses, with subjects like ”You have an ecard from a worshipper.”  A worshipper?  What?  I haven’t actually taken a look at any of these cards, though, because it’s too obvious that it is spam.

I have a lot of email addresses, but that one is not used by friends and family.  In fact, most of my friends and family don’t even know it exists.  The ones who do, still use my CDLauryl address primarily.  Why?  Because it’s easier.  I use Incredimail to check my mail, so I can check all 14 addresses at once.  Yes, you read that right - fourteen.  That’s not counting the LJ forwarding addy or the hotmail and yahoo addresses I never check anymore (because they won’t POP3 without a paid account, and why pay for them when I have free gmail?) so claiming I have an ecard from “a family member” at an address that only certain business contacts use is a dead giveaway.  Nobody ever said spammers were smart.

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