Your Match Is...
allow me to start off quite tangentially and say that the other day my spousal unit muttered something like "hot men available now" or some such as she was going through her email encountering the spam we all know and hate. thankfully, most of my spam gets filtered out, but one slipped by today that purported that it had my perfect match and while i had plenty of better things i could do -- and against my better judgement -- i clicked through.
well, i guess their software is only so good as i was presented with not one perfect match, but six people to choose from with pictures and links to profiles. my first thought was ... on what basis were these profiles picked for me? if i were a match.com user and they had a profile of me available i would understand, but this was spam and given the email address it was sent to, they would have little to have gone on.
as is often the case with me, curiousity set in, with part of it being driven by figuring out where this spammer got the email address. being the dopey guy that i am, i looked at the pictures and clicked through on the profiles of the women whose pictures i found appealing which was 2 of the 6. for the other 4... sorry ladies, not only am i not available, but i also didn't find you attractive.
now the only reason i even bothered posting this is because i looked at the two profiles and while the profiles had many things in common, it had one that jumped out at me screaming irony, irony, irony. both of these women had degrees in psychology (assuming the profiles are accurate of course).
maybe this spam is just a bait and switch to do client acquisition? heh!
Posted by ac at October 5, 2005 02:51 PM