Elliott C. Back: In Aere Aedificare

Clever Personalized Mortgage Spam

Posted in Blogging, Spam, Life, Cute by Elliott Back on February 28th, 2008.

I got an extremely clever personalized spam email today, something that I’ve never seen before. They took my first name and used it to address me, and then took my last name and suggested I “move the Back family there.” Wow! Check this out:

From Homes4Half [info@lafdeb.com]
date Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:24 PM
subject A Half-priced Home in ITHACA for the Backs

Dear Elliott,

Imagine moving the Back family into a fabulous new home in the ITHACA area that you bought for HALF it’s market value! You can find homes priced as LOW as $10,000. Search the ITHACA area for the best bargains today!

They even spelled my name right, which is fairly amazing.

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 7:55 pm and is tagged with ithaca area, dear elliott, s market, spam email, bargains, mortgage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback.

Leave a Reply

Powered by WP Hashcash

Fresh, related resources:

Supplied by Google Blog Search
  • Clever Personalized Mortgage Spam
    I got an extremely clever personalized spam email today, something that I’ve never seen before. They took my first name and used it to address me, and then took my last name and suggested I “move the Back family there.” Wow! ...