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Tempting Offer


I got this email:

Hello,

Browsing on the Internet I came upon your website ($name) and I find it very interesting and useful. My name is Daniel Lee and the reason I am contacting you is my interest in purchasing advertising spot on your site. I will be very thankful if you tell me how much a text link or banner 120x60 / 125x125 on your home page or all pages will cost.

Thank you in advance!

Daniel Lee

It's tempting apart from two things:

  • my site is not called $name. This looks suspiciously like a failed template expansion. A form email! How insincere can you get?!
  • it is signed Daniel Lee and yet the email came from someone called Sylvana Cowper (which sounds like an auto-invented spam email name).

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