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[semperfiona]

I got home today to be told, "You got a letter!"

"Yay! That never happens!" I bounce over to the table where the letter is and pick it up. Hmm. Don't recognize the handwriting on the envelope, and there's no return address. I tear it open. Inside, there's a sheet of printed newsprint with a postie note on it. It says something like "check this out. J" and all the articles on the newsprint are about the same thing: some so-called financial opportunity.

It's spam. Spam masquerading as personal mail, just like I get everyday in my email inbox. Now it's attacking through the letterbox.

Comments

[ona-tangent.livejournal.com]

I wonder if people actually fall for those kinds of tactics. I get student loan consolidation offers all the time on heart-stopping pink paper and "checks" on safety paper. They all wind up in the garbage.

[jilly-bear.livejournal.com]

My 18yo son got that one last week - they must spend a lot of time cutting out those articles and handwriting the envelopes! ::grin::

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

that's probably what all those "earn $$$ by addressing envelopes in your spare time!!!" pieces of street spam are for.

[technomom]

And here I thought they only bothered doing that for weight-loss junk mail.