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Gems of Spam: Contact Me and Stop Weeping

I received this particularly wonderful piece of spam today. It is among the more delicately beautiful specimens I've been fortunate to collect. Its elegant structure -- which draws upon a St. Augustine-like conversion narrative -- is more than matched by its inventive recombinations of usage, and endlessly playful approach to grammar. In the creation of its protagonist, Mrs. Judith Williams, the anonymous author has fashioned a paradoxical figure -- heart-stoppingly direct, yet in the end elusive, an enigmatic voice that nonetheless speaks to us of the most pressing, personal matters: Please contact me and stop weeping.

Please take a moment to enjoy this enchanting creation.


Dear Friend ,

My name is Mrs Judith Williams am 79yrs old of age, i stay at [address]. I am a good merchant , I have several industrial companies and good share in various banks in the world .I spend all my life on investment and corporate business.

All the way i lost my husband and two beautiful kids in fatal accident that occur in November 5th 2003.

I am a very greedy woman with all cost i don't know much and care about people, since when I have an experience of my it difficult to sleep and give rest . Later in the year 2004 February i was sent a letter of medical check up, as my personal Doctor testify that i have a lung cancer, which can easily take off my life soon. I found it uneasy to survive myself, because a lot of investment cannot be run and manage by me again.

I quickly call up a pastor / prophet to give me positive thinking on this solution, as my adviser. He ministered to me to share my properties ,wealth, to motherless baby/orphanage homes/people that need money for survivor both student that need money/ business men for their investment and for future rising. So i am writing this letter to people who really need help from me both student in college, to contact me urgently.

So that i can make available preparation on that especially women of the day, who are divorced by their husband, why they cannot survive the mist of feeding theirself. Please contact me and stop weeping .

Probably let me now what you really need the money for, and if you can still help me to distribute money to nearest orphanages homes near your town.

Now am so much with God, am now born again.

May you be blessed, as you reach me,

I will give more information to you as i await your response immediately.

Best Regards ,

Mrs . Judith Williams .

Comments

...reminding me that I should treasure my spam folder even more than I do now...


By the way, I think the takeaway lesson here is that you should put your pastor/prophet on speed dial. You never know when you're going to have to make that quick call.


I cannot survive the mist of feeding merself in this sea fog, I mean pea soup


Wow. I totally find it uneasy to survive myself, too, and never had the words to say so. Because, really, if I live on after me, where am I, you know?


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