Chutzpah: noun

[jducoeur]

Today's spam includes a scam so blatant that I have to be impressed by the sheer nerve:

Your credit card will be billed at $22.95 weekly and free 3 pack of child porn CD is shipping to your billing address. To cancel your membership and CD pack please email full credit card details to abuse@theplanet.com [...]

The worst part is, I'm sure that there are people out there who will be so flustered by the accusation of child porn that they'll fall for it.

(Although I am surprised and slightly confused that they give an abuse address for an apparently-real ISP as the target to mail to, which may indicate that there's something a tad subtler going on here. It's possible that all of this is an attempt to essentially DDoS the abuse line for the ISP...)

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Almost certainly the case. Snopes has many examples of this -- get "even" with a company you're annoyed about by sending this sort of thing with their legit address. There's a technical term for it, but I fail to remember it at present.

Chutzpah?

[its-just-me.livejournal.com]

Kenahorah! If I ever got some shlock like that I'd let out such a g'shry that only a vilda-chaia could compare to during the mitvah, and naches of his Baubie and Zaida moving to Boca. Of course, this is indeed a Mazel Tov, and the former is nothing but Tsores, but so what? A little room for story telling you can give me maybe?

Re: Chutzpah?

[cellio]

*giggle*