# Literary Spam?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-spam/259974>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 15, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-spam/259974 "2004-08-15T18:50:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-spam/259974/1 "2004-08-15T18:50:29Z")

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An amusing piece of spam managed to slip past my mail filters this morning. The subject line read “Wipe wrinkles away.”

The sender? Dorian Gray.

I was slightly disappointed to find that it was an advertisement for a skin cream, rather than an invitation to have a soul-stealing portrait painted of me…

[by way of explanation](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375751513/102-2279512-2455348?v=glance)

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**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-spam/259974/2 "2004-08-15T19:35:11Z")

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> [@LeeshaJoy](#):
>
> An amusing piece of spam managed to slip past my mail filters this morning. The subject line read “Wipe wrinkles away.”
> 
> The sender? Dorian Gray.
> 
> I was slightly disappointed to find that it was an advertisement for a skin cream, rather than an invitation to have a soul-stealing portrait painted of me…

_snick_ So that’s what happens when you sell your soul to Satan - you become a spammer? :eek: