[IP] Amber Alert, Coming to the Inbox Nearest You

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:29:01 -0500
> From: Rebecca Mercuri" <notable@mindspring.com>
> Subject: Amber Alert, Coming to the Inbox Nearest You
>
> The latest in the spam wars -- Amber Alert!  This one promises to clog your
> email box with photos of children who may or may not have vanished, probably
> for years even after they've (hopefully) been found.  It's so much more
> convincing than those "estate of Nigerian millionaire deposit account"
> messages.  Makes you nearly want to cry.  Hey, if it was my kid, I'd spam
> the universe. But it's still spam.  So when you reply to the sender (who is
> inevitably going to be some kindhearted soul that you know who received this
> from a long chain of other friends whose email addresses they've included to
> prove it's "authentic") with a "this is spam" message you're just going to
> appear to be heartless.  There's no good way out of this one other than to
> immediately redirect all messages with the subject phrase "Amber Alert" into
> your trashbin, pray you never need to do this for your own kid or someone
> you really do know FIRSTHAND, and don't look back.
>
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