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The Good the Spam and the Ugly | 
 enlarge | Author: Steve H. Graham
Publisher: Citadel
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 682847
Media: Paperback
Pages: 254
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0806528249
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.163
EAN: 9780806528243
ASIN: 0806528249
Publication Date: March 1, 2007
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:38:09 +0000 (GMT) To: honbarrsedd4za@yahoo.co.in
PROPOSAL FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE
Dear Sir: I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. I am a high placed official with the Department of Finance Affairs in Lagos, Nigeria. I and two other colleagues are in need of a silent foreign partner whose bank account we can use to transfer the sum of $18,000,000. This are monies left by a barrister who died tragically in a plane crash last year... Sound familiar? Congratulations. You have been selected to become a mugu, an expression African con artists use to describe the targets of their e-mail scams. But they drew a bead on the wrong guy when they started spamming Steve H. Graham. Like many Internet users, Graham eventually got tired of receiving mugu mail and decided to fire back at his wannabe swindlers. Armed with a scathing sense of humor, Graham quickly turned the tables on his tormenters--with side-splittingly hilarious results. Whether he's referring to his fictional lawyer Biff Wellington, complaining about the injury he received while milking a lactating sloth, or offering the Preparation H helpline as his phone number, Graham--using aliases such as Wile E. Coyote, Barney Rubble, and Herman Munster--offers proof that spamming the spammers is the best revenge. Steve H. Graham is a retired attorney. Since childhood, he has been fighting for truth, justice, and free movie passes. For each copy sold of this book, he will donate 100 percent of the proceeds to himself. He is also the author of the cookbook Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man. He lives in Miami.
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Sweet Revenge February 28, 2007
Sparrow (New York)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Like most people, my inbox has been flooded with hundreds of email spam offers to split millions of dollars with complete strangers who happened to randomly select me to share in their bounty. Not being a complete idiot, I have never fallen for these spam scammers, but they are an irritating waste of time none the less. How sweet it is to see someone as wickedly funny as Steve H. Graham take them on and best them!
Mr. Graham has a knack for writing fiendishly clever responses to the inquiries that keep the scammers coming back for more, while delighting the reader with the sheer ingenuity of the communications from the invented potential victims. I highly recommend this book.
I know Steve. Steve is my friend. But you're no Steve Graham. March 1, 2007
George L. Moneo (Coral Gables, Florida, United States)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Did you know that this book was not written on a Mac? I took Steve to task for it. "Buy a Mac," I'd say, over and over again. But here it is, in all its glory, even though it is written on a Windows word processor. Shameful. The book itself, all 254 pages of it, is hilarious and worth every one of those one thousand thirty six pennies it costs. Buy it, please, so he can finally afford a Mac...
OMG I Love Turning The Tables On The Spammers! March 2, 2007
Tx Curmudgeon (San Antonio, TX USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you recently saw the recent video on YouTube about some guy convincing a couple of spammers to film themselves doing the Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch, you may think it was Mr. Graham behind the prank. It could be. Even funnier is an entire book filled with the sweet revenge Steve H. Graham takes out on the spammers with the insanely funny email pranks he thinks up to pull these guys chains. A howlingly enjoyable and entertaining read.
Be sure to pick up his cookbook as well, "Eat What You Want And Die Like A Man," which unsurprisingly has some absolutely wonderful recipes for fantastic dishes you're unlikely to find in your local foo-foo restaurant. Mr. Graham is one of the good guys. Go ahead, click that button and put it in your cart. You'll be glad you did.
Very, very funny February 27, 2007
Music Man (Long Island, NY)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this book. The humor was unique and rib-tickling. Go out and buy it !
Funny -- well worth reading March 1, 2007
Franklin W. Waller (Columbia, MS USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Mr. Graham has had a running battle with the 419 spammers, and we are lucky enough to get to read along. The author has a warped, skewed look on life, and I mean that in the best possible way. Watch as he has the spammers tying themselves into knots. Highly recommended.
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