I Get Suckered
So, I am about to leave for the dentist and I receive this e-mail: (Names omitted)
"Hello,
I represent a company called [NAME OMITTED] -- a company that does what's known as advanced search engine placement. We reach a network of over 22 million people who are predominantly US based. Our network is entirely opt-in, and the users on our Network allow us to present them with a preferred choice whenever they are looking for anything on the top sixteen search engines (MSN, GOOGLE, YAHOO, etc.) I seek one reputable source to send my clients on our Network to for organs for sale. I would like to speak with you on this.
"Please contact me at your earliest convenience. I will be in the office today and tomorrow from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM Central time."
Well, having been writing on the problem with organ selling, I get huffy and write back that I find organ selling to be unethical, so I doubt that my correspondent would want to talk to me.
I just received the following: "That was sent to you in error, we meant organs as in musical organs."
Got me. Got me good. Funny.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 1:43 PM
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So, I heard again from my correspondent. She said that she was not pulling a joke. Well, it was a good one on me, anyway. But it shows how literal the Internet is. Apparently, the company's searches turned up my articles on organ selling. Since the search picked up the word "organ," and not the context of the use of the word, they sent me the e-mail. And so the joke was on both of us.
Once you get punk'd, you know you've made it.
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