A place for me to write about the spam I receive, amusing battles with spammers and links to handy spam resources.

Monday, August 29, 2005

Strange answer-phone message

It's a momentous day today! I've received my first ever answer-phone spam. It's a recorded message that unfortunately was a bit garbled so I wasn't able to hear the company name. I did note down the number though (01580445146) so I could google it but didn't find any search results.

Anyway, so what was this message about? It would seem that I have been chosen to receive a prize. Although they could not tell me what I had won (which seems slightly odd), they provided a list of what I may have won. This a plasma television, a laptop computer, 1000 euro and a weekend break. The weekend break seems to be the cheapest of all the prizes so I suspect that if I were to call, then I'd have a weekend break in some cursed post-industrial northern town.

I'll never know what prize I won since the call is charged at 2 euro per minute so I'm not really inclined to call them. I didn't hear a company name either so I can't even look for a postal address.

I've contacted regtel (The Irish regulatory body for premium rate services) since this unsolicited advert is a breach of their Code of Practice.

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