Comments on: Introducing The World’s Worst Copywriters

By: Philipb

Philipb — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:02:15 +0000

I like to combine spam headers as in “triple X Russian women want to meet you & refinance your home.”

By: Andrew Nattan

Andrew Nattan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:12:08 +0000

That’s what I just don’t understand. Why be so lazy? If they can put in a tiny morsel of effort and get, say, a 1% clickthrough rate from these thousands of emails and comments, spammers would get huge amounts of traffic.

Then again, I guess they could just solely be targeting the easily impressed and simply duped sections of the market.

By: Paul, copySnips.com

Paul, copySnips.com — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:05:16 +0000

Bottom line, is because they’re lazy. Too lazy to actually think up something that might actually get opened or… heaven forbid, get construed as a genuine email.

That would involve too much work for them.

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By: Katy Evans-Bush

Katy Evans-Bush — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:55:25 +0000

Oops, sorry. It took my joke-cod-fake-html thingy seriously. That is not a link!! (The shame. “I am not a spammer. I am not a spammer.”)

By: Katy Evans-Bush

Katy Evans-Bush — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:54:13 +0000

Is your girl looking for love in all the wrong places? Cause what the eye can’t see the heart can’t ponder? Is your next date with a magnifying glass?

No, but seriously. Boys, unless you have some condition so extreme that it’s more medical than aesthetic, just relax. Don’t worry. What you need is not vi*gra so much as some valium. Though you could try the vi*gra too, for fun.

(Surgical “enhancement” goes beyond both my ken and my stomach, and certainly against my advice, I’m afraid.)

By: Ben Locker

Ben Locker — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:46:21 +0000

On the other hand, there are those spammers who paste in a passage of Dickens or Dostoevsky in an attempt to beat the spam filters. If I could find a Viagra merchant willing to paste in a page of (say) Tibor Fischer’s stuff, in the correct order, I’d sign up for regular updates.

By: Beatrice

Beatrice — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:07:40 +0000

Don’t encourage them!

(I’m delighted to discover that UT doesn’t actually register as a “blog” on our work’s IT system, and therefore I can read your words of wisdom during working hours…)

By: B'Elana

B'Elana — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:00:20 +0000

So that’s what they say in the spam? I never open any in the Post account, and I never get any to my private account.

By: Andrew Nattan

Andrew Nattan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:30:52 +0000

See, that’s an actual sentence that explains the benefits of the product.