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Apparently. Several emails from very reputable sources have confirmed it and I’m devastated because I’d always thought I was some pretty stinkin’ hot chick.

Ok, perhaps it would be more accurate to call myself a stinkin’ hot hen.

Okaaaaaay. Perhaps it would be more accurate to just call myself an old hen, but still… I never thought of myself as someone who has a stupid face.

I don’t bother to open all the important offers to do business with folks in Nigeria because I’m just too busy, and because I’m not that much of an online shopper, I usually just delete all those fabulous offers for jewelery and watches. Heck, I know I’m passing up some really great offers to get great stuff like Rolexes and all, but I’m not one for clutter and I’d probably end up selling it in a garage sale anyway. Occasionally, I have been tempted by those wonderful philanthropists who want nothing more than help everyone ‘get more meat’ or something about a bigger rod… and damn it if those pill offers aren’t pretty tempting, but no… the willpower usually keeps me from doing anything more than sending all those lovely emails to the bin.

This time, I couldn’t help myself. I mean, first, there were these three folks who all seemed to agree that I have a stupid face. I was a little ticked off at them. I mean… really! How do they know this?

Not too long afterwards, there were even more of these emails. I was beginning to think perhaps I should believe them and book some cosmetic surgery or something. It was causing some real grief for me, but then it hit me. 

What if it was just a conspiracy against me by someone who didn’t like what I blogged about them? Someone like, like, oh… maybe these girls?

I decided that first, I had to find out why they claim I have a stupid face, and then later I would hunt them down and break all their nailfiles, crazy glue their hair straighteners shut, and replace their bee-sting lip plumping gloss with anbesol (extra strength).

So I actually opened one of them, and you know what I found out?

It was a scam.

Honest to goodness, it wasn’t even a real email. No one out there was claiming I am anything but a pretty stinkin’ hot chick.

Okay, a stinkin’ hot hen.

Okaaaaaay already. An old hen. 

They were however, sending a virus via a link. That’s right, the email contained nothing but a single solitary link to an .exe file. I went searching for answers and found this information at David Pogue’s site  (who got it from Marshal.com) that it is indeed, a virus. The title of the mail is designed to make you mad so that you will click the link to see what asshat is sending you such a rude mail. David quoted:

They originate from the prodigious Srizbi botnet and have been going on in various forms for months…The volume of this specific campaign is significant — currently around 2-5% of total spam received.

If “video.exe” is downloaded and executed [on a Windows PC], it will install the Srizbi bot, and effectively turn the computer into a spam machine capable of sending up to 25,000 spam messages per hour.

And then boom. You wish you’d given your computer a condom or something… or that you’d just done the anbesol thing without clicking the link.

So if you receive mail exactly 2K in size, telling you that you too have a stupid face, don’t click the link inside the mail.

And to thank me, click over here and help raise my rank a wee bit, or click one of the icons below and share this with others who will be really happy you saved them from getting a nasty virus too.

(And maybe please pass it around that I’m a pretty stinkin’ hot chick.)

Oh geez. Don’t start that again…