| "Good day to the band.. you know what i'm one of the great fanatic of your group.. that i adore you all so much.. i really love the style you groove, the way you play.. but the problem is i don't have any stuff from you all that i can be proud of on my friends.. i can only hear your music only here at the internet.. im from the "Philippines".. and your band is great & your music is so cool..Hope i can have one of your albums to keep.. & i'm askin a favor that i hope you Can send me some of your stuff! I don't mind Even if it is old, as long as it come from the band.. and as long as i could keep it...
By da way,im a disk jockey here in our town..I would like to play your music in our fm station..if you would allow me..
Hope you'll grant my little wish.....
Until here,hope your music can reach philippines..tnx.."
Usually, these letters are accompanied by an address to which they would like me to send free cds. Sometimes the letter is from Russia, sometimes India.
So, yeah, I mean, I'm not amazingly web-savvy or anything but, I know this is a scam of some kind. Maybe the guy just wants free cds. I don't know. The first few times I got one of these, I wasn't totally positive that it wasn't on the up-n-up, but after getting a few, it became clear.
This time I decided to google the thing. I picked a choice phrase from the middle of the letter, search on it, and to my surprise and delight I found a band that used the letter on it's website in its LETTERS, FAN BUZZ, COMMENTS & TESTIMONIALS section. I do not believe it was done in humor. I will not reveal the band name.
The quote that they used was word-for-word the paragraph that I posted above. It was dated September 29, 2004 and was from someone named Slim Slim. My last one was from Don Bitalac.
I love the internet.
1 comment:
you know, i too have received those and wondered what the heck was up with them. i think they're either just weird or we should book a northampton scene invasion of the phillipines, russia, and seychelles.
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