Excuse me sir, your dad likes hookers.

August 16, 2002 7:44 AM

Excuse me sir, your dad likes hookers. Friday fun for all the family! Enter details about people you know and the PrankBot will send an email prank to them. They only have 3 pranks to choose from so far, but good for a giggle. Your company didn't need that email bandwidth anyway, right?
posted by sonicgeeza (23 comments total)

I sent the Secret Admirer prank to myself and now I feel so warm and fuzzy. :-)
posted by VelvetHellvis at 8:20 AM on August 16, 2002

Your victim will honestly believe that their father has been living a secret life in the underbelly of society, and then when they get to the end of the email we reveal that it was just a prank you played on them!!

Umm, besides being a spam trap, that's not even remotely funny. It seems innocent enough, but people have been fired or sued for less.
posted by machaus at 8:28 AM on August 16, 2002

I was just going to mention, sites like these are usually a front-end for harvesting e-mail addresses. Their privacy policy claims that they're ethical, though.
posted by waxpancake at 8:30 AM on August 16, 2002

I care not about spam and email harvesting. This is pure gold. I sent a secret admirer prank to my friend, man is he going to get his hopes up that some hot chick likes him, and then be totally dashed when he sees it is just a prank. Man, I bet he kills himself when he sees how much of a loser he is......er I mean, I think he will laugh at the funny joke.
posted by Mushkelley at 8:40 AM on August 16, 2002

yup... i had to send a secret admirer card to my friend too.. i couldn't stop giggling to myself in my cubicle.
posted by lotsofno at 9:15 AM on August 16, 2002

Any "friend" who submits my email address to an address-harvesting "joke" site will immediately no longer be considered a friend. Damn near ranks up there with, say, killing my cat and calling it a prank.
posted by five fresh fish at 9:25 AM on August 16, 2002

I care not about spam and email harvesting...
I think he will laugh at the funny joke.

on preview, what five_fresh_fish just said.
the internet is full of funny jokes. most of them have a very unfunny end result.
posted by quonsar at 9:41 AM on August 16, 2002

I just thought up another prank for them... now they have 4.

Dear Prankster,

This is an automated email being sent to you as part of our ongoing effort to provide superior community policing.

Recently, you visited prankbot.com and sent a friend one of our hilarious and irresistable prank emails. Our new privacy policy guidelines require us to inform those individuals, who send these hilarious and irresistable prank emails, that they can look forward to receiving endless "Enlarge your penis" emails thanks to the spam technology used here at prankbot.com. This message is intended to increase community awareness of the problem and hopefully explain how prankbot.com operates.

If you require any more information on the many types of spam, please contact www.spamcop.com.

Your's Faithfully,

The Spammers Pranksters
prankbot.com
posted by fatbaq at 9:51 AM on August 16, 2002

Has anyone else noticed that Yahoo email has a very good spam guard? Cause I have, and that is the source of my confidence in the face of flying spam an unsolicited emailings. So again, I taunt you spam site, you are nothing to me.
posted by Mushkelley at 10:02 AM on August 16, 2002

I dare someone to send quonsar a prankbot message.
posted by Mushkelley at 10:06 AM on August 16, 2002

mixed in with the 250+ pieces of shitmail i will delete upon arriving home at around 5:45pm, i'll never even know the diff! that will include up to 15 secret admirers, 20 or 30 allegations concerning my lack of penis size, a handful of printer toner refill solicitations, a smattering of work at home and earn $$$, a bulging pantload of Fwd: Osama Fucking Goat.jpg's, some frantic sounding missives claiming i have already won, or that my payment has not arrived, or that my request/application has been approved/received. Sprinkled throughout this mess will be 2-3 valid messages from people i actually know and a couple notes about something on my blog that was loved or hated. send all you like, i'll never see them!
posted by quonsar at 10:31 AM on August 16, 2002

Has anyone else noticed that Yahoo email has a very good spam guard? Cause I have, and that is the source of my confidence in the face of flying spam an unsolicited emailings. So again, I taunt you spam site, you are nothing to me.

But do all of your friends/victims have good spam guards (we'll leave aside the "death-of-a-thousand-cuts" spam bandwidth issue)? It's their addresses that I'd worry about.

One time e-mail prank=good friendly fun
giving someone's address to spammers=revenge tactic and/or unmitigated assholery
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 10:38 AM on August 16, 2002

Hmm, has anyone actually been spammed by prankbot yet? Just wondering. Let me know if you do and then I'll apologize for posting it. Until then, I remain your faithful local optimist.
posted by sonicgeeza at 10:42 AM on August 16, 2002

spammed by prankbot. heh. he thinks we are talking about being spammed by prankbot. heh. someone has a lot to learn about how the internet works. heh.
posted by quonsar at 11:11 AM on August 16, 2002

and ironicly enough, this was posted by someone who hasn't even revealed his email address on his mefi user page.
posted by quonsar at 11:14 AM on August 16, 2002

yahoo has a good spam guard? pfft, my hotmail account get's probably 5% the amount of mail in the junk folder that my yahoo one gets in it's normal inbox. and that's with the guard turned on.
posted by lotsofno at 11:18 AM on August 16, 2002

Well poo for you.
posted by Mushkelley at 11:24 AM on August 16, 2002

bah! what am i to do with poo?!
posted by lotsofno at 11:46 AM on August 16, 2002

Well, when life hands you lemons you are supposed to make lemonade. So now that you have been handed poo..... well acutally please don't make poo-ade.
posted by Mushkelley at 12:02 PM on August 16, 2002

Heh.
posted by danwalker at 12:34 PM on August 16, 2002

I actually thought about sending the IRS prank to a coworker, but, how can you take something from the IRS seriously when it's signed "Your's Faithfully"?

Your's?
Faithfully?

No one I know would fall for this.
posted by MsVader at 1:12 PM on August 16, 2002

I once got audited by the IRS. They signed it "Your's Faithfully", I also had collection agencies breathing down my neck throughout college, and they were typically very cordial and would sign corresponces "smooches" and "xoxo" For example, "Dear Mr. Kelley, your utility payments are 4 months past due, we will be repossessing your television. Smooches, Chet Atkins - Red Star Collections" That was a real letter.
posted by Mushkelley at 1:49 PM on August 16, 2002

There's something very threatening about a collection agency that promises "smooches." Somehow, they become people I even less want to meet. I'll cough up the dough, somehow, promise!
posted by five fresh fish at 12:47 PM on August 17, 2002