Wonder Diets & Phishing

By Rhiannonw

Thu, 21 Apr 2016
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Despite walls to block
spam emails still flock,
creep in through the chinks
with their dubious links
– don’t touch! treat as suspect:
may damage, infect
devices with viruses,
the programming capture,
enslave, twist or rupture;

or maybe they’re phishing
for data or cash,
enticing and pushing
the sale of irrelevant
oddments or trash,
announce with allure
spectacular cure
to problems of weight,
and ways to inflate
your income, and trick
your finger to click:

a modern and prevalent
intrusive bombardment
an irritant persistent.

[IP:a story or poem inspired by a phrase you’ve found in some junk mail.]

 

 

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Comments

Submitted by VeraClark on

Tiresome things. You, too, could be SlenderTrim. Well captured, Rhiannon.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Vera, an interesting IP, the temptation to believe absurd promises are probably less than the ease of clicking on the link before thinking, to regret. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on

Hello there, Rhiannon.  One does have to be so careful these days as far as the internet is concerned, and you highlight the problem beautifully in this poem, which is hammered home more than succinctly in its last stanza.

Tina

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Tina. Glad it worked as verse. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by jeand on

Hi Rhiannon

It worked very well. I really enjoyed reading it and cringed with the knowledge of times when I have clicked when I shouldn't and reaped the dire consequences.

Jean

Jean Day

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Jean.

My recent 'regretted click' was actually nothing to do with spam, thankfully, but it caused quite a bit of frustration with myself – on holiday I sat down to clear photos off my camera that I had long ago copied on to the laptop, and cleared all from the folder concerned, forgetting there were the ones from the first couple of days of the holiday in that folder (the rest were in a new folder). It was not an 'undo-able' action! Rhiannon