Spam Can Be Fun

[2ffat]

I just got this piece of spam. It's had for me to believe that 1) this is real and not a joke, and 2) anyone would believe it. It reminds my of the email I got asking for help in getting parts to rebuild a time machine.

You can repunctuate it anyway you want if you want to make sense (or fun) of it.

THE MAGICAL POWER OF INVISIBILITY.
THE GREAT MAGICAL DEVINE POWER OF THE GREAT AMAL HAMZAAD As the time passed this great power got vanished from the history of the spiritual world. I started the great spiritual research to get hold on this great power.
To gain the power of invisibility, to make you invisible in terms of trouble of armed robbers ,no one will see you or witness your actions, the power permits you to penetrate anywhere unseen and un-notice. You can investigate someone without him noticing you even by using your camera you will not be noticed. At anytime you want to be invisible to people eyes all you need to do is to put the RING in your finger this great AMAL HAMZAAD and you will hold a mirror on your hand look at yourself on the mirror you will not see your face again on that mirror automatically you are invisible ,you can now go anywhere you wish to go. If you desire to make yourself visible, take it out of you and you will be automatically be visible to people.Police and army in Africa use this great power for their protection and their investigations. you can go to your enemies house without him seeing you and you can also use your video camera to video anything you like without them seeing you, you can also give the police the secret information that you have seen, if someone is after you, you can also be invisible..It does not have any evil effect to you, so don't be afraid of that.AMAL HAMZAAD RING it is only for $100
CONTACT . Mohammed Abdul Rahman
International Astrologer and Psychic Adviser
Tel; 234 xxx-xxx-xxxx
EMAIL xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com
Note: send a text message to telephone number 234 xxx-xxx-xxx by stating your name and your email address, or you call

I love the unintentional play on words about the power of invisibility being vanished from the history of the spiritual world.


James P. Cottingham
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[genomon]

you will hold a mirror on your hand look at yourself on the mirror you will not see your face

Being a member of the undead, I get this a lot...



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[gbaughma]

Anyone with telekinesis in the audience, please raise my hand!



Just my 2¢

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[manhunter2826]

^Done!

 

[p5wizard]

You can let go now, Manhunter2826, or gbaughma will have difficulty to type/post a reply... ;-)

p5

 

[Opieo]

With regards to people not believing, there still seems to be tons of people you hear about believing things like this in Africa and Asia.
Lots of people still hold faith in mystical witch doctors and miracle cures and ointments.

Also along those lines, the number of elderly here in the US who still fall for scams along the lines of the the Nigerian 419 scams.

Every now and then there is also a story in the news about a man who believed he was in love with some lady in Africa and she was going to move over here and marry him and yet he ends up with nothing to show for it except 40K missing from his bank account.

Seeing this today is somewhat amusing considering Wired's posts about practical jokes.

~
“Your request is not unlike your lower intestine: stinky, and loaded with danger.” — Ace Ventura.

 

[flapeyre]

The Invisible Man has it made. He can go into any bar, and if his wife calls looking for him, the bartender just tells his wife that he hasn't seen him.

-- Francis
I'd like to change the world, but I can't find the source code.

 

[jebenson]

http://www.419baiter.com/

<- site dedicated to stringing along email scammers, often to hilarious effect.

THE GREAT MAGICAL DEVINE POWER OF THE GREAT AMAL HAMZAAD As the time passed this great power got vanished from the history of the spiritual world. I started the great spiritual research to get hold on this great power.

And...how exactly did this guy even know to start the reasearch, if it was vanished from history?

To gain the power of invisibility, to make you invisible in terms of trouble of armed robbers ,no one will see you or witness your actions, the power permits you to penetrate anywhere unseen and un-notice. You can investigate someone without him noticing you even by using your camera you will not be noticed. At anytime you want to be invisible to people eyes all you need to do is to put the RING in your finger this great AMAL HAMZAAD and you will hold a mirror on your hand look at yourself on the mirror you will not see your face again on that mirror automatically you are invisible ,you can now go anywhere you wish to go. If you desire to make yourself visible, take it out of you and you will be automatically be visible to people.

Ah HA! See, you have to put the ring *in* you finger, not *on* your finger. Sneaky....

Police and army in Africa use this great power for their protection and their investigations.

Expect the invisible African armies to begin invading your country any day now.

you can go to your enemies house without him seeing you and you can also use your video camera to video anything you like without them seeing you, you can also give the police the secret information that you have seen, if someone is after you, you can also be invisible..

So wait, let me make sure I have this right. This makes me...invisible? HOLY CRAP!! I'll take 10!

It does not have any evil effect to you, so don't be afraid of that.

That's good to know, but a little too late seeing as I already bought 10 of these suckers. That's right, 1 for each finger! BWAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! Fear the invisible computer geek! FEAR MEH!!!!



I used to rock and roll every night and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I'm lucky if I can find 30 minutes a week in which to get funky. - Homer Simpson

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[hjgoldstein]

It reminds my of the email I got asking for help in getting parts to rebuild a time machine.

You should have replied saying you were busy, but if they could email you again last week, you could help them then.

 

[p5wizard]

Well, if they got their TM fixed to return to last week and resend the message (which hadn't been sent then at all, so how could it be re-sent?), would they have needed to mail at all at that point in history. Well perhaps just to say that the message you'd be receiving next week can be ignored. But spammers - even time-travelling ones - don't send that kind of messages, do they? (did they?)... ;-)

p5

 

[Michael52x]

Mmmm, invisible spam? Cool! Make it so, number one.

"Impatience will reward you with dissatisfaction" RMS Cosmics'97

 

[BadBigBen]

Drat, and here I only get the ones that promise me longer sex life or the like...

never had any spams of Damsels in Distress, who had their money stolen, etc.; or like the one above...

Sniff...

;-)

Ben
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