Spammers are getting shadier and shadier … that is just a fact. They do whatever they can to get you to click on their email. They have gone from spamming, to trickery to our-right deceit.

After I log in following a long weekend on Block Island, I open my email program … click the download button and walk away for my daily bowl of cereal. Upon return I see I have 1,200 new email’s – click the glorious filter spam button and it whittles the list down to about 70 messages, not bad.

I then click through – deleting the hordes of email that my spam filter did not catch. I notice a few company newsletters I have requested a few real emails and then one name/subject that catches my eye.

Today I received an email communication from my long lost cousin -- “Hugo Webster” whom lives in the Ukraine, he informing me of the latest improvements in the world of “P3n1s 3nlarg3ment” and about this one time offer he has for me!

I guess some spam list has my name on it and my email so they [the evil spammers] decided to send me a faux personalized message … but the thing that gets me is that out of all the possible first names to choose to try to get me to click on this message, why fucking Hugo?

Hugo may be the worst name to choose, the chances that I have a cousin/brother who’s name is “Hugo” is like one in a million – maybe less. Why not choose a more common name like Bill, Mike or something like that?

I guess I am pondering the intellect of people who’s career is highlighted by getting people to click on a link that is entitled “CiaI1s DISC0UNT 0RDER”

We can put a man on the moon – but we can’t stop spam. Go figure.

Happy Monday.