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Delete this at your Peril : One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers
By: Bob Servant
| Retail Price: | $25.99 |
| Booktopia Price | $23.39 |
ISBN: 1845132866
Date Published: December 2007
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Description:
Spam is the bane of everyone's life, the Chinese torture of electronic annoyances. 90% of all emails sent are spam, and £150m was conned out of Britons last year alone. This wickedly delightful humour book offers us the occasion to indulge in schadenfreude and witness the tormenting of the hapless spam merchants. They may have managed to crack our firewalls. But they've met their match in Old Bob. Meet Bob Servant, a 62-year-old unemployed citizen of Broughty Ferry. He bought his new computer and internet connection in the hope of making friends; but instead he received a deluge of unwanted offers of wealth, health, wives and radical genital enlargement. And now Bob is mad, he's bad and he's out to get revenge. Over several weeks, Bob patiently lures in his victims through teasing email exchanges with the Nigerian 'orphan' or the Russian model 'looking for love' or the prophet of the hot share price, leaving confusion in his wake. He unpeels their scam through bizarre and anarchic exchanges with hilarious results.
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