The Good the Spam and the Ugly

by Graham, Steve H.

• ISBN13: 9780806528243
• ISBN10: 0806528249
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: Citadel Pr

Summary

"Dear Sir: I must solicit your confidences in this transaction. I am high placed official with the Department of Finance Affairs in Lagos, Nigeria. I and two other colleagues are in need of a silent foreign partner whose bank account we can use to transfer the sum of $18,000,000. This are monies left by a barrister who died tragically in a plane crash last year..." Millions of Americans receive this email or something like it every day--sometimes multiple times a day. This is a typical email sent by African internet con-artists to "mugus" (an expression used describe the gullible Americans they swindle out of an estimated $2 billion dollars a year). But when they started spamming Steve Graham they got more than they bargained for--Graham got fed up deleting mugu mail, but he harnessed his frustration and turned it into a truly funny personal campaign to scam the scammers and spam the spammers. Armed with a relentless sense of humor and a bottomless pit of patience, Graham quickly turned the tables on his tormentors--with side-splittingly hilarious results. Whether he's referring to his fictional lawyer Biff Wellington, complaining about the injury he received while milking a lactating sloth, or offering the Preparation-H helpline as his phone number, Graham--using aliases such as Wile E. Coyote, Barney Rubble, and Hermann Munster--offers proof that spamming well is the best revenge.