Talk about crying wolf.

See this sleazy sales-letter-masquerading as a “Fraud Alert.”  letter from Citibank.  But as you read it, keep in mind;

a) Citibank has sent us BOTH cards they referred to in the letter unsolicited.  We trashed both of the cards.  We have just two cards - one for home and one for business.  And have for over 10 years.

b) Since activation of cards is a controlled process where the caller must either call from their home number or answer a series of security questions, the letter’s warnings are bogus.

c) The timing for those drowning in credit card debt is perfect.  (”honey, I forgot, we can max out that Sears card too - let’s go Christmas shopping!”)

Well,  I guess they got what they wanted.  I opened it.

From Amazon’s Askville:

This crap drives me nuts.

Amazon, here’s some Javascript code, for free:

var strAddress2use = strAddressFromForm.replace("http:////", "");

It's a little more work in Ruby and PHP, but .. you get the picture.

I Snapped this From a T-Shirt shop in Gatlinburg, TN, smack dab in the Bible Belt.

Tolerated, I suppose by legal departments of real brands. I can’t imagine they have permission.  Protected as a parody?

Hyper tacky IMO.

From their site: “Every Homewood Suites by Hilton hotel is designed to make guests feel closer to home, providing them with all the comforts, convenience and privacy of home for the price of a traditional hotel room. [sic] ” The industrial cleaner ["Warning: Poison" on label] with cleaner-soaked brushes (including a children’s toothbrush) didn’t give me the warm fuzzy feeling I get when I’m at home. I waited 10 minutes before I told someone. I think it would have stayed there for hours.

Sitting in traffic I looked over to see this. You can’t see it, but the towel is WET with Diesel Fuel.
What kind of dipwad does this kind of stuff? And how do they get away with it?

Hi Scott, good evening. My name is (??) calling from company called (??) Worldwide (??). Actually called regarding a partnership program companies that I’m investing (??) to people like you all across US. Reason for as association (??) bigger projects for some reason handle on your own since we have strong (??) for us in the development center (??) India. We’re providing outsourcing services to our customers (??) very very (??) prices. I was just wondering if I can (??) program because I still (??).

(??) inserted by my voice mail transcription service

Reminds me of mad libs.

I guess I better actually listen to this voicemail. Or not.