E-Dribble

AT&T has been in the news quite a bit recently for their humorous attempts at astroturfing their agenda on net neutrality.  Techdirt points us to their latest and most humorous endeavour.  AT&T releases a letter against net neutrality from a group of senior citizens but forgot to find/replace XYZ corporation.

I’m torn over which is more funny; the fact that they still haven’t figured out how to draft one of these fake letters in support of their agenda in spite of how often they do it or the fact that nobody can confirm the existence of the Arkansas Retired Seniors Coalition.

If you check the archives, you’ll see a letter identical to this in almost every way.  The author didn’t even bother to change the names, in an effort to keep his prospective victims from realizing he’s a spamming incompetent via Google.

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It seems that she would be too tired to write, what with all the globe hopping:

Subject: VERY URGENT: PLEASE CONTACT ME
From: LAQUANYA EVET HILLARD <HILLALE@MAIL.BROWARD.EDU>

Reply-To: vivianwalter1954@yahoo.jp

I am Mrs.Vivian Walter,the wife of Mr.Edwards Walter,I am a citizen of the United states. My husband worked with the Chevron/Texaco in Saudi Arabia before he died in the year 2004. my husband deposited the sum of (12.5 Million Pounds) with a Bank.the management just wrote me as the beneficiary that our account has been DORMANT and if I can not ACTIVATE the ACCOUNT,the funds will be CONFISCATED.I just want you to Stand as beneficiary for the Funds.reach me: vivian_walter54@hotmail.com

Remain blessed.
Mrs. Vivian Walter.

And the ever-helpful response:

So your name is Vivian Walter, with an email address of Laquanya

Hillard, who is an American citizen using a Japanese mail account discussing a dead husband that resided in Saudi Arabia?

Holy shit, you’re really bad at this.

thanks,
json

EDIT: She’s on to us, and now using a hotmail account, since that adds a sense of legitimacy: vivian_walter54@hotmail.com

Then you might want to install Firefox.

So that’s why you might want to start reading this post from the bottom.

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Our latest contestant:

Subject: FDV.Grant Award Donations!!!
From: “Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY” <mark02@zajoulnet.com>
Reply-To: Sir Mario Domenico <fdvoffice77@aim.com>

Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY
http://www.fondazionedivittorio.it
GRANT PIN NO.: (N-222-6747,E-900-56)

We bring to your notice the
decision by the Board of Trustees of Fondazione di
Vittorio to choose you as one of the final
recipients of a cash grant for your own personal,
educational,and business development.

To celebrate the new year and in coincidence
with our 31st anniversary,we are giving out
a donation of 500,000.00 Euro(Five Hundred Thousand Euro).
Each to 40 lucky recipients who there e-mail have been
selected from over 125,000 websites all over the globe,
as charity donations/aid from the Fondazione
di Vittorio, ECOWAS, EU and the UNO
in accordance with enabling acts of Parliament.

To File for your grant award you are expected
to send us the following detail to
facilitate the release of your grant prize.”(1)Full-Name,
(2)Age,(3)Sex,(4)Full Mailing Address and (5)Phone Number”.

Regards.
Sir Mario Domenico
Fondazione Representative
Contact E-mail:fdvoffice77@aim.com
Tele:+00393291419908

And his deserved response:

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I installed Fedora 9 tonight.

Shortly after, I replaced my Fedora 7 install.

Gone are the days of out of the box successful networking.  Where any OS would recognize that you are connected to a network, Fedora now requires you to set up your network, much like Fedora 2.  Also, you can now welcome the arrival of the Vista-esque oversized graphical icons and laggy desktop performance.

I think we have witnessed Fedora’s jumping of the shark.