The kind of email corporations get
[The show report is coming along – we are at about halfway through the 3rd day. Check it out and let us know what you think so far, if you get a chance: CES 2008 Show Report ]
We get emails like this all the time.
“Hello,
I searching through search engine and found your website that sell some
products that i need. So I decide to purchase that product from you.
Before i place some order, i have several question below:
1. Your company able sent the goods to outside your country?
2. Shipment by UPS or FedEx?
3. Are you accepting Visa and Mastercard as payment?
4. How can i get some discount for this purchase?
Please let me know your further information for my inquiry soon.
Best Regards,
Joseph”
Translated this means:
“Hello,”
Hi,
“I searching through search engine and found your website that sell some
products that i need. So I decide to purchase that product from you.”
The software I downloaded that searches for small businesses on the web found your site and then sent this badly written email I copied and modified a little in case you already are wary of the amazingly similar original.
“Before i place some order, i have several question below:”
Before I actually spend any time trying to steal from you, I need you to indicate just how stupid you are.
“1. Your company able sent the goods to outside your country?”
Do you send products to places where you can be easily ripped off because of lack of enforcement of certain credit card laws?
“2. Shipment by UPS or FedEx?”
I will mention a few reputable companies to make me look reputable.
“3. Are you accepting Visa and Mastercard as payment?”
Are you extraordinarily ignorant of credit card scams?
“4. How can i get some discount for this purchase?”
A real customer would ask for a discount, so I am asking for a discount so I look like a real customer [this is actually more advanced than 90% of all of these emails]
“Please let me know your further information for my inquiry soon.”
Please respond if you are an easy mark. I want more money now.
“Best Regards,
Joseph”
Please send me your free products,
Automated Ripoffs Incorporated
Lol! Sad that this kinda thing happens so much.
This comment has nothin’ to do with the email, but I don’t see anywhere to put comments on the show report.
Mike, you log ridiculous miles on your feet and shoot more and clearer shots than anyone covering shows, but . . . .
I don’t understand why you go soooooooooo wide on the report. my laptop’s native rez is 1440 wide, and I have to scroll left and right to get all the text. It’d be nice to have it fit on the screen. (If I had 768×1028, I don’t think I’d have the patience to do all the required lateral scrolling.)
Hi Dave,
The medium resolution photos (1000×600 instead of 1500×1000. It was 1000×800 last year, but we changed a few things this year with the layout), which we have done for many years now, isn’t generated until closer to the end of the report as it takes some amount of time to both generate it and to upload it [at approximately 3000 files and 250MB] and I don’t want to do it too many times.
Now that Neli has her 24 inch monitor [her previous one got lightninged], she doesn’t complain about the large sizes anymore. So you are the first this year. Where is Metralla? He is usually in the running as well 🙂
Thanks,
Mike