How stupid do they think I am?!

[cellio]

From a bogus "support" address:

Dear user, the management of Uj.edu mailing system wants to let you know
that,

Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content)
outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by
a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe,
follow the instructions.

For more information see the attached file.

Have a good day,
The Uj.edu team http://www.uj.edu

Comments

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

For a while AOL was absolutely overrun with messages such as these -- most of them purporting to be from customer service but really designed to extract credit card info. One thing that struck me about these messages was that they were almost always packed with with misspellings and bad grammar. Is there some rule that makes spam-sending cause you to lose IQ points?

[cellio]

Is there some rule that makes spam-sending cause you to lose IQ points?

I've been assuming, without investigation, that a fair bit of this junk originates in places where English isn't the dominant language.