Amusing spam/landlord connection
Feb. 23rd, 2005 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dryfterI received a 419 Nigerian-style scam spam today; (you know, the sort where some guy says he's got 50 million dollars in some 3rd world country and wants your help to get it out.. etc)
Anyway, the name of the guy sending the spam is disturbingly similar to my landlord, and his email address syedakhmat@ummah.org has a domain that is almost the same as my landlord's wife's name, Umme.
I find this highly amusing, but actually I guess these names (Syed, Umme, Ummah, Akhtar, Asmat, etc) are just common names in the middle east.
Anyway, the name of the guy sending the spam is disturbingly similar to my landlord, and his email address syedakhmat@ummah.org has a domain that is almost the same as my landlord's wife's name, Umme.
I find this highly amusing, but actually I guess these names (Syed, Umme, Ummah, Akhtar, Asmat, etc) are just common names in the middle east.