The spam of all time

[Dude111]

I would have helped the guy,but I misplaced my transdimensional wormhole conducting generator (Ah man!!)

This summer, Dave Hill got a refreshing break from the run-of-the-mill spam that routinely invades his e-mail inbox. Instead of hawking mortgages, penis-enlargement pills or weight-loss products, a message arrived that seemed straight out of a science-fiction novel.

The anonymous e-mail offered $5,000 to any vendor capable of promptly delivering a collection of far-fetched gadgets for conducting time travel. Among the mysterious devices sought by the message's author were an "Acme 5X24 series time transducing capacitor with built-in temporal displacement" and an "AMD Dimensional Warp Generator module containing the GRC79 induction motor." [more]

SOURCE: http://web.archive.org/web/200308310...0141-2,00.html

[theantihero]

It looks like the article is from 2003? I'm sure spam has gotten weirder and more sophisticated since then.

[Face Up.]

Haha, time traveling spam would be a nice break from the usual money scams.