Of all the usernames I’ve collected over the years, there’s none that I’m more proud of than my gmail name.

jasonn.

Simple huh?

The flipside of having such a generic username is the copious amounts of spam I get and misdirected emails. I once even got access to someone’s myspace page (I assume they mistyped their email address when registering).

Usually I find myself registered with strange newsletters, sent emails about group outings or even sent receipts from purchases I never made. I try to discern between the ones truly misdirected and those that are spammers trying to covertly get me to reply. I have to admit, they’re getting pretty creative with their hooks.

Then I got this:

Spam or real? I don’t think I’ll be inviting her to chat.

Filed under Random on Sunday, January 10th, 2010