my name is mwd

This came through my door the other day. Looks like a handwritten note from a friend, but on closer inspection it’s spam, disguised to look personal:

It’s quite bad really – it’s an attempt to trick me into reading by a product by pretending to come from someone I know – I assume statistics show that most people know someone who’s name starts with a J. The font they used to print it was quite good too – it was only on close inspection that it was clear it was printed rather than handwritten. It’s bad enough to get spam, but it’s slightly creepy when it starts to pretend it came from someone you know in order to fool you into reading it.

Either that, or I need new friends ;)