- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Birlinn (Aug 23 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1841589195
- ISBN-13: 978-1841589190
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 259 g
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#343,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #34 in Books > Entertainment > Humour > Computers & Internet
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Product Description
This is an hilarious collection of email exchanges starring the anti-hero of spam, Bob Servant, now republished with previously unreleased material. Spam is the plague of the electronic age, comprising 90% of all emails sent and conning over £150m a year from British victims. Into this wave of corruption steps the brave figure of Bob Servant – a former window cleaner and cheeseburger magnate with a love of wine, women and song as well as a keen sense of fair play. This wickedly funny and original book features the anarchic exchanges between Bob and the hapless spam merchants. As they offer Bob lost African millions, Russian brides and get-rich-quick scams he responds by generously offering some outlandish schemes of his own. The spammers may have breached his firewall, but they have met their match as Bob Servant rises heroically to the challenge, and sows confusion in his wake.
About the Author
Neil Forsyth is an author and journalist. A fellow Dundonian and friend to Bob Servant for over twenty years, he has recently completed Servant's biography, Bob Servant: Hero of Dundee, also available from Birlinn.
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Gut Busting!!, July 29 2008
By Crystal Adkins "Crystal's book reviews" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers (Hardcover)
Delete This At Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers by Bob ServantI swear on everything funny that this book is hysterical! I honestly laughed out loud numerous times while reading the email exchanges between Bob and the Spammers. I couldn't help but wonder if the gypsies really did steal Bob's ladders and if he ever found his talking lions. You must read the book to understand.
Bob Servant converses with those annoying spammers that tell you that you can have a percentage of their profits if you send them some money by western union and all of your banking details. He also talks with a Russian female that is quite attractive, leading her to believe he is a 62 year old man and she is saying she would love to come to Scotland to be with him. He sends them pics of other people and then tells them unfathomable tales about why he can't send the money after he has built a friendship of sorts.
Bob Servant truly is a one of a kind, he really does make you laugh and teaches these spammers a lesson. Being from Scotland, it seems everyone wanted to give him some money but they needed a grand or two from him to get started. This was an incredibly funny book, I would love to see more of these messages in a book two. It was a simply written book, just messages back and forth but I have to say it was a gut busting kind of read!! 5 Hearts
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