By Jack Silbert on December 19, 2014
spam poem #2 Hello how are you today I am Martha by name and I want us to be friends. I don’t know how you will feel about it I hope you wouldn’t mind We don’t know each other; I will give you every detail about myself soon yours Martha
Posted in poems | Tagged marthajacob13@hotmail.com, spam
By Jack Silbert on September 26, 2013
a spam poem I am in possession of documents relating to assets acquired by my cousin during the war A couple of months before his death he instructed me to migrate I wish to move overseas I need your help Please reply
Posted in poems | Tagged Mamadou Seone, spam
By Jack Silbert on July 19, 2012
It’s good to know that the hard work we do here at Salt in Wound is not going unnoticed. I wanted to share with you just a sampling of the praise from our regular readers—praise that for some inexplicable reason has ended up in the spam filter. And these are just the responses received in […]
Posted in satire | Tagged meta, spam
By Jack Silbert on January 23, 2010
Hi Doctor Schneider! Or is it Doctor “Shneider”? Your email address in my in-box indicated the former, but your message steers me toward the latter: Did you receive the e-mail which I sent to you recently (copied here-below)?Please confirm since I have had problems lately with emails intercepted by spam-filters set too high.Cordially, Marc Shneider, […]
Posted in satire | Tagged meta, spam
By Jack Silbert on June 21, 2008
I’ll admit it: For the past five years, I have been obsessed with social networking. First it was Friendster, and then MySpace, and now Facebook. And somewhere along the way, through overseas friends, I’ve signed up for hi5 and Bebo. Some of these sites have been infiltrated with fictional women, perhaps connected to porn websites […]
Posted in anecdotes, satire | Tagged social networking, spam, the single life
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