Fun and Games with Identity
I was reminded recently of pranks people used to pull on each other in high school. Basically submitting your friend's name and contact info, just for fun. I had a friend who used to always put his friends names and phone numbers on anything related to military recruiting. I had another whose twin brother put her on a bunch of nuns' lists, so she got tons of literature from different convents about joining their order.
More recently, if I have time and the desire to do something evil for the sake of good, I click on those eBay phishing scams I get - where they put up a fake eBay-looking page to try and get you to enter your username and password? Sometimes I'll go to their fake page and put in a fake username and password. I figure that it takes me less than a second to make up a fake username and password - and that wastes at least few seconds for the phishing scam artist.
Why am I talking about this? Because I recently got a really strange email to one of my private email addresses - one that I'm very guarded with. I'm not sure if it was a mistake or if someone is trying to play a joke on me.
But to whoever put my private email address on a mailing list for a Northern Californian Religious Summer Camp for At-Risk Jewish Teens... BRAVO. I don't know whether to kiss you or kill you.
More recently, if I have time and the desire to do something evil for the sake of good, I click on those eBay phishing scams I get - where they put up a fake eBay-looking page to try and get you to enter your username and password? Sometimes I'll go to their fake page and put in a fake username and password. I figure that it takes me less than a second to make up a fake username and password - and that wastes at least few seconds for the phishing scam artist.
Why am I talking about this? Because I recently got a really strange email to one of my private email addresses - one that I'm very guarded with. I'm not sure if it was a mistake or if someone is trying to play a joke on me.
But to whoever put my private email address on a mailing list for a Northern Californian Religious Summer Camp for At-Risk Jewish Teens... BRAVO. I don't know whether to kiss you or kill you.
posted by Eugene at 11:57 PM
4 Comments:
Why not both?
Call it! On this day at this time, Eugene's blog's had its first official reference to necrophilia.
Well, I was going with the whole "Kiss of Death," Italian Mafia-type thing, but necrophilia works, too, I guess...
Uh, um, er, I mean, uh.... aw crap. Now I look like a shmuck. As usual.
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