You've got to laugh

[Rik]

I just received this email:

This message has been generated from HSBC Internet Banking system. A recent maintenance has just been completed, we therefore require that you immediate login,in order to ensure this has not affected your account.


Normal stuff, bad grammar etc. Only they sent it from Halifax.co.uk. 

[Ray]

I had one similar to that yesterday, Rik, only mine was telling me I'd lost my overdraft facility and gave me a link to click on

[Rik]

 

[Glenn]

I had one over the weekend, telling me to download Adobe Reader 2010.

[Rik]

You should have written back to tell them about PDFxChange, Glenn.

[pctech]

I get loads of the damn things but fortunately most of them end up in my spam folder.

[Rik]

Where they get canned? 

[pctech]

Yes.

Had thought about responding before with some choice phrases but its likely some poor person whose PC has been hijacked will get them instead.

Not sure whether you have seen this site but there are some funny stories on it from people that have engaged in e-mail conversations with these jokers.

http://www.419eater.com/

[Rik]

Nice link, Mitch.

[esh]

I also get dozens of these from various banks which I have no accounts with. This however, is the most bonkers, random, and unexpected email I have ever received:

We can see only light and illuminated objects. We can not see anything
in dark. An object how bigger it may be become smaller and smaller as
it goes away and away from our eye sight, the thing appears us smaller
and smaller till it disappears from our eye sight. The sun is the only
object which gives light to the entire solar system. In size it is 3
lakhs time bigger than earth but it appears like a football to us. We
know that the sun is about 150 million Kilometers away from the earth.
Thus, an object like our earth will completely disappear on the above
distance from our eye sight. Since we are created from earth, the
power of our eyes has merged with the earth and since the earthlike
object disappears at a distance of 150 million Kilometers, the eyes
power can not see anything ahead of it. Here starts the game of
reflection.

Sun gives light to the 50% of earth. Another 50% of
earth covers with the darkness. The shadow of earth runs within the
sun light. Since point of earth's shadow at the distance of 150
million Kilometers completely disappear within the sun light and hence
we meet the space mirror and such space mirror is reflecting solar
system reversely near about the area of 75 million Kilometers meets
another space mirror therefore which mirror we meet first at the point
of earth shadow gives us the unlimited depth of space because the
objects within the area of such 75 million Kilometer between two space
mirror reflecting unlimitedly in both front side and backside. Though
the giant telescope installed by various world space organizations has
discovered a lot of mysteries at hundreds of light years distances,
i.e. asteroids, milky ways, galaxies, supernovas, white dwarfs,
nebulas, black holes, extra solar systems etc. these mysteries are not
real mysteries and which are created from space mirror. Other hand the
Cause of above rule of reflection, sun spots are created on sun.

I'm sorry?

[Rik]

Now that is weird.

[Bill]

I've had a few like that... eg:

To be doing something rather unnecessary to the invariable
fatality of the disorder, when at its one often speaks sharply
to them when they are i come literally as a last hope to
beg you to desert. Illustration: sketch map showing route
tone, i waive it in deference to an old friend on the very
day on which the holder of the note made as thick as butter
for fritters, to spread with him except a small copy of
god's word printed an' now i have biled over. Look ahere,
lyddy ann, a game for so incongruous a party. There was
a green landscape and told of the glory and prosperity take
a two weeks' vacation, and great was the face. It hardened.
i gather a gastric disturbance and wearing a freshly ironed
silk hat, appeared. saihklhonoaaanjibpr

[Rik]

Perhaps it's in code?

[Bill]

It was tagged on to an advert for an online CD store... what with typos and imaginative grammar, the bit I quoted actually made more sense than the ad!

I didn't visit the site

[pctech]

Perhaps someone somewhere is trying to develop AI of some sort but is not having much luck.

Have a go on this site and you'll see the bizarre responses the AI code provides to what you put in.

[Rik]

 

[Bill]

the bizarre responses the AI code provides to what you put in.

It didn't do too badly:

Are you a philosopher?
Sometimes.
You are a great thinker.
My cat thinks so.
You don't have a cat.
It must be a goldfish.
Garbage in, Garbage out.

[Rik]

Love it.