fashionable watches are a bright side of my life

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My name is cklein and I am a spammer, apparently.

According to my organization’s IT guy, it’s not uncommon for spammers to select an arbitrary email address to use in the “reply-to” line of their emails. That way, when some of the spam they send bounces, it gets returned to, say, cklein@cherylsworkplace.org, instead of to the spammer. When I started receiving change-of-address auto-replies from France (“Mon adresse mail a change”) I knew I was a spammer proxy.

Judging by the subject headlines of my returned emails, I’m in the designer jewelry/handbag replica business:

  • “A diamond should be affordable”
  • “My watch arrived today”
  • “Elegance, reliability, prestige”
  • “Replica watches, bags, pens”
  • “Jacob & Co. good replicas”
  • “Precious jewellery from TIFFANI”
  • “Fashionable watches are a bright side of your life…”
  • “Your love ones deserve the best”

But sometimes I branch out to personal editorializing:

  • “You look really stupid mpickell”

I felt bad for insulting mpickell, so it’s good that he’s out of the office until June 26 anyway.

Comments

Tracy Lynn said…
Dude, I was here this morning, and I was all " Why hasn't Cheryl written anything? " *whine*

But now I know you were busy selling jewelry, so that's ok.
June 13, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Cheryl said…
It's a hard job, especially when you try to do it with elegance, reliability and prestige.
June 13, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Peter Varvel said…
Ha ha ha! Better to have your name associated with jewelry ads than all of the non-stop "enlarge your family jewels" ads!

"Shhh, did you hear about how big . . .?"
June 16, 2008 at 9:41 AM
Unknown said…
you should have a mac

:P
June 17, 2008 at 12:02 AM
Cheryl said…
PV: I'm sure it's only a matter of time till I start hawking "Vi@grA." The spam slope is a slippery one.

V: Macs make sure you don't spam people? Wow. But then what would I do if I really wanted to unload some replica watches? (Or maybe some of the TVs in my living room?)
June 17, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Anonymous said…
I love designer and fashionable watches a lot. I too love diamond watches but I can't afford these.
June 27, 2008 at 3:09 AM
Unknown said…
oh. you would have to do that manually. bummer.
June 27, 2008 at 6:41 PM
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