Awesomely bad spam

Bruce Sterling's received a totally awesomely bad spam from the "Redd Cross" of Slovenia, a triumph of unintentional comedy and machine translation:

Good time of day. You are disturbed by the charitable company Redd Cross of Slovenia. We have the business offer for you. We can offer to you of earnings, thus your salary will make from 1000$ to 2000$ per one month, at an incomplete working day. Your earnings can be and higher. The more and forces you will give time, the there will be your salary more.

If it is interesting to you, you write on the address of e-mail of our agent: [e-mail] he will contact you within 24 hours and will throw off to you all details, and will answer you on all your questions.

Thank you for attention Redd Cross of Slovenia!

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[#1 posted by Antinous / Moderator, March 14, 2008 1:13 PM]

Fractured syntax aside, they're not really offering much money, are they? It's like Dr. Evil demanding a million dollars.

[#2 posted by Takuan, March 14, 2008 1:22 PM]

I am not for understanding? What funniness is to be happening by this disturbation? As speeching writer for glorious American President I am only for the doing of Redd Crosss in the incomplete times day.
Are you to be the taking of my urine?

[#3 posted by Various Cool dot Com, March 14, 2008 1:22 PM]

I just got threw watching Eastern Promises so this is hilarious in my head with the voice.

[#4 posted by scottfree, March 14, 2008 1:28 PM]

I see Borat finally discovered what next.

[#5 posted by deckard, March 14, 2008 1:40 PM]

Bruce's email address is exposed to the extent it gets harvested by many humans as well. I would not trust a spam he received on his "well" address...
:)

[#6 posted by dragisak, March 14, 2008 2:07 PM]

It looks like cut&pasted in Google translator.

[#7 posted by virgil, March 14, 2008 2:10 PM]

this is some of awe.

[#8 posted by Gilbert Wham, March 14, 2008 3:04 PM]

Written by lobsters?

[#9 posted by Bruno38, March 14, 2008 3:21 PM]

TAKUAN:HILARIOUS!!!

[#10 posted by Anonymous, March 14, 2008 5:00 PM]

As a Slovenian I must say I find this mail really funny and totally illogical. Even translated back to Slovenian it makes no sense. I am convinced that my country was used by random, it is the only way I can make any sense of it.

[#11 posted by Anonymous, March 14, 2008 5:41 PM]

"You are disturbed by the charitable company Redd Cross of Slovenia." = WIN.

[#12 posted by Mindpowered, March 14, 2008 7:03 PM]

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/spamindex.html

It would be a shame not mention this fine collection of Spam while we're at it.

Note: Not even remotely safe for work.

[#13 posted by Patrick Dodds , March 15, 2008 6:14 AM]

Next coming: You can has Viagura.

[#14 posted by You, March 15, 2008 7:10 AM]

Spamglish = the new LOLspeak

[#15 posted by tomic, March 15, 2008 11:01 AM]

Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 05:06:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: Petrovna
Reply-To: [e-mail]
To: Inbox
Subject: English write make you?

I found yours Email ID in Directoric.
I have been from Russian and for a man like you have I been lookink.

http://www.easygoingcompanion.com/?oc=6120

[#16 posted by Johan Larson, March 15, 2008 2:08 PM]

Cory, you do a lot of good things, but making a fuss about mangled spam is a good decade behind the times. t's stck btwn tmly nd rtr, hp-dp n lm-.

[#17 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Community Manager, March 15, 2008 3:47 PM]

Johan Larson, that's not making a fuss. It's gazing in wonder. I've seen more bad English text than you can imagine, and that piece of e-mail is remarkably bad.

I don't know whether the translator(s) responsible for it were partly or entirely mechanical. Whatever they were, I'm guessing that that message passed through multiple languages on its way from Slovenian to English.

[#18 posted by mrshermanoaks, March 15, 2008 11:53 PM]

I've been collecting my favorites at:

http://www.mysteryspam.com

[#19 posted by Antinous / Moderator, March 16, 2008 12:06 AM]

Wow. I get crappy plaintext spam. Where do I sign up for the good stuff?