Idaho Tops America's Most-Spammed States 97
An anonymous reader writes "MessageLabs unveiled a list of the top US spammed states, with surprising results — the spam capital of the US is Idaho, with 93.8 percent of spam, far exceeding the global spam rate for September 2009 of 86.4 percent. Idaho has jumped 43 spots since 2008 when it was ranked the 44th most spammed state. The difference can be attributed to the resilient and aggressive botnet market as well as a higher volume of global spam that has ensued since the beginning of the credit crisis toward the end of 2008."
'Twas I and My Four Hundred Nineteen Potatoes (Score:4, Funny)
Seoul, South Korea.
I will introduce myself I am Mr. Dave Fu Wong, a potato farmer working in a field in South Korea Until now I am the master potato grower of three million hectres to most of the South Korea government kitchens and I have since discovered that most of the potatoes lay dormant in silos with a lot of starch in the silo on further investigation I found out that one particular silo belong to the former president of South Korean MR PARK CHUNG HEE, who ruled south Korean from 1963-1979 and this particular silo has a deposit of grade A lucky golden variety potato with no next of kin. As you know, lucky goldens do not only taste like food from the gods but can be consumed raw like an apple as well as grown anywhere even during the winter.
My proposal is that since I am the master potato growing officer and the potatoes or the silo is dormant and there is no next of kin obviously the potato owner the former president of South Korea has died long time ago, that you should provide an account for the potatoes to be transferred.
The potatoes that are floating in the silo right now are some fifty kilotonnes and this is what I want to transfer to your farm in Idoho for our mutual benefit South Korean post office is so super efficient that a single postage stamp will get these potatoes to you post haste! Unfortunately postage stamp cost fifty Korean currencies or $10,000 American Dollars (apologies for your economy) please send bank account information or cash money order for immediate shipping.
Please if this is okay by you I will advice that you contact me through my direct email address.
Please this transaction should be kept confidential. For your assistance as the account owner we shall share the potatoes on equal basis.
Your reply will be appreciated,
Thank you.
Dave Fu Wong
The potato state has lots of spam (Score:4, Funny)
Obviously... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:usa (Score:3, Funny)
They estimate 5 to 6 million computers are comprimised. So that means that much of the spammers are sending spam to their own comprimised machines.
Maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe they get lonely out there and spam almost seems like someone cares to send them a message.
What a surprise (Score:3, Funny)
When you think high tech, well networked states, you don't tend to think of there.
Do Your Potatoes Leave Her Laughing? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The potato state has lots of spam (Score:3, Funny)
That's not got much spam in it.
Idaho is ill prepared for the war on spam. (Score:3, Funny)
Their state of the art weaponry can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHUyKrJeNv0 [youtube.com]
Re:Maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
When I first moved to Idaho, I commented to a local about the high proportion of pregnant teenage girls in the high school. Her comment was "It's Idaho, there is nothing to do but your neighbor."
Re:Potatoes (Score:4, Funny)
Idaho is famous for it's potatoes.
Ever since I began reading Maddox articles I can't think of Idaho without this [thebestpag...iverse.net] in mind.
Re:Potatoes (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, I forgot the comma.
Idaho is famous, for it's potatoes.