Comments on: Funny spam email, June 2009

By: SEO Dude

SEO Dude — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:29:50 +0000

As humorous as these SPAM emails are to us in the know, I deal with clients all the time that simply don’t know they have received SPAM… often times malicious. Aside from the obvious downside of people getting “taken” by these emails, there is another effect that have that really p_sses me off. It makes our entire industry look a little shady. The same with the Black Hat SEOs out there. It means I have to work extra hard to build up a high level of trust. Many of my clients have had bad experiences with this stuff, and often times it seems as if I have to make up for these SPAM and Black Hat a-holes… and another thing!

By: Car Reviews

Car Reviews — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:11:30 +0000

ha ha ha, thats really funny email. i too get many spam mails like i have won millions n billions. just need to give my bank account number and more details to transfer the money to my account.
i like to hear my frds getting excited by such emails, lol

By: Prathik Raj

Prathik Raj — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:54:27 +0000

Hi Matt,

Currently Gmail’s anti-spam program is working so efficiently that I am not winning lottery entries and getting business offers from Nigeria any more, screw you guys, I lost millions because of your technology.

Although I am still getting emails from all the kind websites which want me to join them and extend my social network, I am so not annoyed by them.

By: grasshopper

grasshopper — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:10:20 +0000

matt, no need to post this comment, but a big FYI:

i clicked on the following link in your post, and was alerted by Avast! Antivirus that the page i was attempting to connect to was infected with a trojan horse. i aborted the connection.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/funny-spam-email/

hopefully this is a false positive, but thought you should know.

By: Frank Malina

Frank Malina — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:01:02 +0000

Seriously give yourself a -30. This blog sometimes sucks more than UK’s car insurance search results.

By: Frank Malina

Frank Malina — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:32:53 +0000

Matt you should give yourself a penalty for low quality content. New entry to Quality Guidelines: Avoid creating content about spam because it’s as good as spam and depressing and Frank Malina doesn’t want to read about it.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:07:20 +0000

Matt,

I was very interested your comments about Cattaraugus Ave. in Los Angeles. I am from the village of Cattaraugus, and was amazed when I first discovered that there was a street with that name in LA. I contacted the LA County Historical Society and the LA Public Library to see if anyone could tell me how that came to be the name of a street in LA. So far I’ve had no luck, but there must be a good story there about someone coming from Western New York to LA a hundred years ago.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:34:19 +0000

@angilina: there are numerous possibilities, including online subscription services which sell their email lists for extra profit, badly protected email databases that get hacked, etc. Only the least skilled spammers use email addresses simply harvested from the web.

If you actually use an email address, chances are that it will eventually end up in some spam databases.

By: angilina

angilina — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:03:20 +0000

Matt,

I do not understand one thing. How come spammers get your email address?

I do not see your email address being mentioned anywhere in your blog or anywhere else.

By: Karl Foxley

Karl Foxley — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:04:00 +0000

Hey Matt,

This was a fun read. I read the lame spam emails I get from time-to-time and some really do make me laugh.

Karl