Targeting porn spam at online booksellers?
Archive: Online bookselling
Try reading the *(&(*&(* listings and you would have seen that you lowballed a hardback against a mis-listed paperback and took the price of the book down over 3 dollars. You suck!
This email arrived from “Webmistress” Saturday.
I’ve seen complaints by used bookdealers about people who (often foolishness) cheapen the price of books by dropping them well below the common selling price. I’ve bitched about it myself.
And I’ve probably done it. Although I find some books are priced insanely high because the seller doesn’t realize that the book is uncommon because it is a purely functional work that has been superceded by more recent editions.
I was going to waste my time on a pointless snide reply. First I checked the originating domain. It was a Latina porn site (now I’ll be getting hits from Google for Latina porn).
Either a real indignant online bookseller was trying to trick me into replying so I’d get deluged with porn spam. Or a remarkably canny porn Webmaster was sending these out to bookselling sites. A reply would prove it was a valid email address and porn offerings would follow.
That the email is wholly generic, not even the title of the book is cited makes me suspect it was the latter.
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Richard