From the How Stupid Do They Think We Are? Department:
Here's a spam that will fool you!
But seriously, do they really believe that someone would think "Hey! Famed ecologist Rachel Carson, despite being dead some 40 years, is writing to me about specials on tobacco!" C'mon! They couldn't even spell her name right! And talk about dishonest - They intentionally wrote the subject line to break through spam filters. And they want me to trust them?!?
This is typical of the spam that arrives directly in my Comcast e-mail account every day. They don't seem to filter incoming mail despite claiming they do. Oddly, 10 minutes after establishing that account I got some spam and none of my friends knew my address yet. The spam that goes to my Yahoo! e-mail account is much more clever and that ISP is also more clever as it diverts the crap to a holding cell for my inspection. For some reason, spam never shows up in my marvelous Gmail account. Thanks, Google!