h/t Instapundit
Hmmm. I Just Got Extortion Spam
by Bruce Sterling
Not particularly dramatic, effective or well-spelled extortion spam, but it is extortion spam. A death threat, even. And straight from the New York Times.
From: mrs@nytimes.com
Subject: Buy or DIE!!!
Date: May 24, 2008 8:35:21 AM PDT
To: bruces@well.com
Reply-To: mrs@nytimes.com
Pity I can't reply to the New York Times, as perhaps my somber little letter of complaint would see print on the op-ed page.
No! Don't do it, Bruce! Don't give their subscription department any ideas!
You computer was infected by our software! If you will not buy ournewspapersoftware - you will bee lost all data on your PC!
"you will bee lost all data" -- Ow! That'll sting.
Buy our software bastards: xpantivirus.com XP Antivirus.
That looks like a genuine badware site, still up and operative. Presumably it's eagerly trying to hijack my browser right now, and that "free spyware scan" doesn't look very healthy.
I'm on a MacBook, losers. Come and get me.
