Awesomely bad spam

Bruce Sterling's received a totally awesomely bad spam from the "Redd Cross" of Slovenia, a triumph of unintentional comedy and machine translation:

Good time of day. You are disturbed by the charitable company Redd Cross of Slovenia. We have the business offer for you. We can offer to you of earnings, thus your salary will make from 1000$ to 2000$ per one month, at an incomplete working day. Your earnings can be and higher. The more and forces you will give time, the there will be your salary more.
If it is interesting to you, you write on the address of e-mail of our agent: manager_on_connections@yahoo.com he will contact you within 24 hours and will throw off to you all details, and will answer you on all your questions.
Thank you for attention Redd Cross of Slovenia!

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I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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I’ve been collecting my favorites at:

http://www.mysteryspam.com
Johan Larson

Cory, you do a lot of good things, but making a fuss about mangled spam is a good decade behind the times. t’s stck btwn tmly nd rtr, hp-dp n lm-.
Antinous

Wow. I get crappy plaintext spam. Where do I sign up for the good stuff?
Patrick Dodds

Next coming: You can has Viagura.
Anonymous

As a Slovenian I must say I find this mail really funny and totally illogical. Even translated back to Slovenian it makes no sense. I am convinced that my country was used by random, it is the only way I can make any sense of it.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

Johan Larson, that’s not making a fuss. It’s gazing in wonder. I’ve seen more bad English text than you can imagine, and that piece of e-mail is remarkably bad.

I don’t know whether the translator(s) responsible for it were partly or entirely mechanical. Whatever they were, I’m guessing that that message passed through multiple languages on its way from Slovenian to English.
You

Spamglish = the new LOLspeak
Anonymous

“You are disturbed by the charitable company Redd Cross of Slovenia.” = WIN.
Antinous

Fractured syntax aside, they’re not really offering much money, are they? It’s like Dr. Evil demanding a million dollars.
Takuan

I am not for understanding? What funniness is to be happening by this disturbation? As speeching writer for glorious American President I am only for the doing of Redd Crosss in the incomplete times day.
Are you to be the taking of my urine?
Various Cool dot Com

I just got threw watching Eastern Promises so this is hilarious in my head with the voice.
scottfree

I see Borat finally discovered what next.
deckard

Bruce’s email address is exposed to the extent it gets harvested by many humans as well. I would not trust a spam he received on his “well” address…
:)
Mindpowered

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/spamindex.html

It would be a shame not mention this fine collection of Spam while we’re at it.

Note: Not even remotely safe for work.
tomic

Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 05:06:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: Petrovna
Reply-To: letmego@bk.ru
To: Inbox <8282@bbnplanet.net>
Subject: English write make you?

I found yours Email ID in Directoric.
I have been from Russian and for a man like you have I been lookink.

http://www.easygoingcompanion.com/?oc=6120
dragisak

It looks like cut&pasted in Google translator.
virgil

this is some of awe.