Cause this email freaked all of us out:
Hi,My name is Chrissy and I'm a high school guidance counselor. We had some issues in the school last year with a lot of the female students becoming pregnant. That problem, so far, seems to have carried over to this school year. I was doing some research for different ideas and I came across your site: http://feministing.com/archives/006141.html and I noticed you're currently linking to http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/mifepristone/default.htm which doesn't appear to be working. I found some really good info at another site and I thought maybe you'd be interested in linking to that site instead of the broken one. The address is: [redacted anti-choice site with dating url] which is a bit different but has really good information. Thanks again for the info and help I received from your site. I hope you'll also find my suggestion informative and helpful.
Sincerely,
Chrissy Compton
Cree-py.
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That's insidious, and not least a little terrifying.
How do you know for sure that the letter is from a spambot, though?
"We've also noticed that having the girls wear a big 'ol scarlet letter is a helpful deterrent."
I suppose theoretically it could be, but it could also be a form e-mail that is used for the sake of convenience, in which only a new URL has to be inserted to make it relevant to the site they're contacting.
Or, it just could be majorly passive-aggressive, which is honestly how I read it.
To be fair, the link in the feministing post actually doesn't work. Maybe this is just someone who doesn't seem to realize that the internet contains really bad sites as well as really good sites when it comes to reproductive health.
To be fair, the link in the feministing post actually doesn't work. Maybe this is just someone who doesn't seem to realize that the internet contains really bad sites as well as really good sites when it comes to reproductive health.
To be fair, the link in the feministing post actually doesn't work. Maybe this is just someone who doesn't seem to realize that the internet contains really bad sites as well as really good sites when it comes to reproductive health.
To be fair, the link in the feministing post actually doesn't work. Maybe this is just someone who doesn't seem to realize that the internet contains really bad sites as well as really good sites when it comes to reproductive health.
To be fair, the link in the feministing post actually doesn't work. Maybe this is just someone who doesn't seem to realize that the internet contains really bad sites as well as really good sites when it comes to reproductive health.
To be fair, the link in the feministing post actually doesn't work. Maybe this is just someone who doesn't seem to realize that the internet contains really bad sites as well as really good sites when it comes to reproductive health.
"Hi! Your informative link with facts about a specific drug from a government site doesn't work, so we'd like to give you some propaganda telling all the dirty whores who read your site to keep their legs shut and stop acting like human beings because we think both you and they are complete idiots who don't know the difference between the two sites. K, thx!"
To be fair, the link in the feministing post actually doesn't work. Maybe this is just someone who doesn't seem to realize that the internet contains really bad sites as well as really good sites when it comes to reproductive health.
To be fair, the link in the feministing post actually doesn't work. Maybe this is just someone who doesn't seem to realize that the internet contains really bad sites as well as really good sites when it comes to reproductive health.
To be fair, the link in the feministing post actually doesn't work. Maybe this is just someone who doesn't seem to realize that the internet contains really bad sites as well as really good sites when it comes to reproductive health.
Sorry. I only hit submit once. I don't know what happened.
This site is being weird today...
Spambot! Lol.
To me this sound like a targeted fishing attack more. Been seeing more of these lately. I wouldn't be surprised one bit if that site was infected.
There are so many signals in that letter that it is not really from an educator.
"We had some issues last year with a lot of female students becoming pregnant...the problem so far seems to have carried over to this year..." That's someone trying but failing to sound professional.
If students were getting pregnant this school year, we wouldn't know in the second week of September... only females get pregnant in the first place, it would be strange for an educator in my experience to call teen pregnancy "an isssue," and so on. It's a courteous but obvious fishing attack.
Glad you caught it, and posted it, so we can be aware of what to look for.
Yeah, we got a very similar email at California NOW with what I'd bet is the same URL (your description was enough to identify it), slightly different text but same M.O.
My guess is that they're targeting feminist sites for broken links and then sending out one of a few different spam emails hoping to create links to their totally bogus site.
I guess that means we need to repost a link that discusses mifepristone again:) Thanks for the heads up, Chrissy!