Here’s another example from my ongoing rogues’ gallery of crappy spam messages. If you’re like me, you’ve seen your inbox inundated with LinkedIn-related spam messages today. (I received 7 of them before noon.)

One theory I’ve often seen says the misspellings and bad grammar are intentional in order to fool spam filters. I think that’s giving these scummy bottom-feeders far too much benefit of the doubt. I’d have to think that better grammar, spelling and punctuation would fool more people into clicking — probably enough to far counterbalance any spam filter effect.

Of course, if you roll over any link in such an email (don’t click, fool!), you’ll immediately see the domain that they’re trying to trick you into visiting. Sadly, too many people don’t take that half-second and as a result get completely hosed.

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 11th, 2012 at 2:13 pm and is filed under Internet Stuff.