Friday, October 01, 2010

Sharia-Compliant Spam

The ad below was part of a large all-graphic spam email sent to us earlier today from (I think) Karachi:

Sharia consultancy services

My guess is that the keyword mix at Gates of Vienna — which includes a lot of Mohammed, Koran, hadith, jihad, sharia, zakat, and so on — must have drawn the attention of the email-harvesting bots used by spammers in Pakistan.

It makes for an interesting inbox…

5 comments:

Zenster said...

Shari'a compliant Spam is an oxymoron as Spam is a pork product and, therefore, entirely haram.

Perish the thought that such a notion might be any cause for Muslim compunction over sending unwanted email solicitations.

Anonymous said...

And I get a surprising number of requests for zakat from the Middle East in comments to my blog, through my "contact us" page, and to my unpublished email account--even though my blog is dedicated to exposing the dangers of zakat!

Juniper in the Desert said...

I wish I could afford a spam-bot: I would fling motoons, piggies and shoe-soles so fast at the umhah they wouldn't know what hit them!

Mad Dog Gazza said...

Juniper, that's a great idea!

1389 said...

That's one reason I have not put any automatic ads on the blog so far. I don't want to advertise things that I find disgusting.

On the Contact Us page, I set up a graphic that shows my blog email address (which I use for other purposes as well). It is NOT clickable - you have to read the address from the graphic and enter it by hand. Because there is no text representation of the email, there is nothing for spambots to harvest.