Spam Follow-up
Dearest Timmy,
Your mother and I have done all we could, but we now fear that we have been taking the wrong direction in getting you treatment for your cancer. It has been 7 years now, and still our chain emails haven’t been sent to enough people.
I want you to know that we have never given up. Many tired nights, your mother and I have spent in the den- your mother cutting out greeting card messages about friendship or charity, and myself at the computer looking for people who just got email accounts. But sadly, son, something must have gone wrong.
Perhaps it was competition from that Bill Gates fellow; it’s hard to beat free money from Microsoft. It could have been those kidney stealing emails, too; people tend to be rather protective of their kidneys. Whatever it was, Timmy, we are sorry that we have failed you.
I hope that this letter reaches you in your hospital in Texas. We only wanted the best for you son. I now realize that our efforts may have been better spent on getting you medical treatment, but hindsight is always 20/20.
We love you and hope you understand. If you would like, feel free to forward this to 10 people, for old time’s sake.
Love,
Mother and Father.
November 29th, 2004 at 11:41 am
That’s so sad. Personally I did my part forwarding as much as I could.
November 29th, 2004 at 11:43 am
I gotta go though, I am about to help a friend in Nigeria manage his 2.3 million dollar fortune here in the states. Can you believe it? The guy is depositing it into my bank account! SCORE!
November 29th, 2004 at 11:50 am
Oops! I forgot, I was supposed to help set up a trip to Disneyland for him with Microsoft.
November 29th, 2004 at 8:16 pm
YEs and if I DON’T forward the next one, many bad things will happen to us all! Ewww….!!!
November 30th, 2004 at 11:04 am
If only I’d known sooner! I must have been one of those that slipped through the cracks. Please give Timmy my love anyway. Poor little tyke.
November 30th, 2004 at 1:43 pm
Like the blog – randomly found it through your ad and recognized your name from the comment. Anyhow, nice blog – I’ll be back.
November 30th, 2004 at 10:37 pm
OMG!! Just came across this site on BlogExplosion, and it RAWKS!! Hella Dope, man.
September 21st, 2005 at 9:37 pm
wtf does blog explosion or helping your freind with cash for YOU(asshole is you) have to do with a dieing boy
i sent the forward to every single email i had in my inbox and contacts and i even emailed it to random people in chat rooms and other blogs
i really hope you and your child get what you most definitly desirve so best of luck to you and all of the guys at the base wish you luck