The Good the Spam and the Ugly: Shooting It Out with Internet Bad Guys

by Steve H. Graham

Book Overview

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:38:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: CONFIDENTIAL. . . To: honbarrsedd4za@yahoo.co.in PROPOSAL FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE Dear Sir: I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. I am a high placed official with the Department of Finance Affairs in Lagos, Nigeria. I and two other colleagues are in need of a silent foreign partner whose bank account we can use to transfer the sum of $18,000,000. This are monies left by a barrister who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806528249
• ISBN13: 9780806528243
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

OMG I Love Turning The Tables On The Spammers!

If you recently saw the recent video on YouTube about some guy convincing a couple of spammers to film themselves doing the Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch, you may think it was Mr. Graham behind the prank. It could be. Even funnier is an entire book filled with the sweet revenge Steve H. Graham takes out on the spammers with the insanely funny email pranks he thinks up to pull these guys chains. A howlingly enjoyable and entertaining read. Be sure to pick up his cookbook as well, "Eat What You Want And Die Like A Man," which unsurprisingly has some absolutely wonderful recipes for fantastic dishes you're unlikely to find in your local foo-foo restaurant. Mr. Graham is one of the good guys. Go ahead, click that button and put it in your cart. You'll be glad you did.

Funny -- well worth reading

Mr. Graham has had a running battle with the 419 spammers, and we are lucky enough to get to read along. The author has a warped, skewed look on life, and I mean that in the best possible way. Watch as he has the spammers tying themselves into knots. Highly recommended.

I know Steve. Steve is my friend. But you're no Steve Graham.

Did you know that this book was not written on a Mac? I took Steve to task for it. "Buy a Mac," I'd say, over and over again. But here it is, in all its glory, even though it is written on a Windows word processor. Shameful. The book itself, all 254 pages of it, is hilarious and worth every one of those one thousand thirty six pennies it costs. Buy it, please, so he can finally afford a Mac...

Very, very funny

I really enjoyed this book. The humor was unique and rib-tickling. Go out and buy it !

Sweet Revenge

Like most people, my inbox has been flooded with hundreds of email spam offers to split millions of dollars with complete strangers who happened to randomly select me to share in their bounty. Not being a complete idiot, I have never fallen for these spam scammers, but they are an irritating waste of time none the less. How sweet it is to see someone as wickedly funny as Steve H. Graham take them on and best them! Mr. Graham has a knack for writing fiendishly clever responses to the inquiries that keep the scammers coming back for more, while delighting the reader with the sheer ingenuity of the communications from the invented potential victims. I highly recommend this book.