oh noes!

I just got email saying that my university degree has expired. Oh no!

This is the thing that I don't get about spam. Who can really get caught by something like this? Nigerian 'please let me use your bank account' scams, make money fast scams, and all of the university ones offering you a PhD for a couple hundred bucks. Spam of the ultra-cheap software sort is somewhat more understandable, although I especially like getting spam at my @microsoft.com email address that's telling me that I can buy Windows for less than the street price.  I understand porn or Viagra or remote-controlled car spam, because I'm sure that people buy stuff from that.

But, really, do people think that their university degree has expired? And if they do think that it's expired, shouldn't it be confiscated anyway?

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 13, 2006
  Hmmmm . . . you may be onto something. If our Microsoft certifications can expire -- why NOT some people's college degrees? Many professions have mandatory continuing education; so why not make those Liberal Arts majors go back to school too! (^_^)
  
• Anonymous
  February 13, 2006
  I would hope that a degree in Literature or History doesn't expire.  Those of us in engineering or science fields shouldn't get too complacent; better arguments can be made for the expiration of a computer science degree than a theatre degree.