Yesterday I received a spam e-mail from superpower.com. It read:
Hi Noel,
Reaching out because I read your stroke effect article.Loved it!
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Would you like to try it out? No charge. All I'd ask is for a short, honest write-up of your experience afterward with a link to our site so your readers can find us too.
Let me know!
Thanks,
Best,
[name removed by the author]
Usually I'd just ignore this because I'm used to getting random spam, but the fact it explicitly says "reaching out because I read" when nobody did, in fact, read anything at all, really makes me angry.
The article is about a adding an outline to an image in Krita. A stroke in the graphics sense. There is no way a human could ever mistake this for "having a stroke" in the medical sense. In fact, even looking at the URL of the article would be enough to figure this out. You don't even need to go that far. Why would a website called Virtual Curiosities be writing about medical topics? This isn't Health Curiosities!
But that isn't all. I'm not sure I even have a contact e-mail address listed anywhere on this website. A human being wouldn't even try to send an e-mail if they don't have an address to send the e-mail to. Some tool was probably used to find articles containing a word in the title and then mass send spam e-mails following a template to a plausible e-mail address.
I don't even care that much if you spam people. You'll get hit with spam reports and then your e-mails won't reach anyone anymore. But don't lie to people while you are spamming them. That's the behavior of a scammer.