Got a good one today.

Dear Webmaster,

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There was no attachment for me to download to “visit their site” (i.e. get infected with a nasty virus). Fairless clueless even by spammer standards.

I decided to visit the domain used in the e-mail address, expecting to see either a link farm or something totally innocent and unrelated to the spam. Instead I saw a one page site with broken links and this:

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  1. Mike says:

    Drat, I knew that one night stand with the Octopus would come back to haunt me. I would have got away with it too, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids!

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