ShamWow infomercial mutates into spam

by Graham Cluley on December 1, 2008 | Comments Off

Filed Under: Spam

Have you seen the ShamWow infomercial?

I must admit, I wasn't aware of the ShamWow internet phenomenon until today. But a quick search of YouTube revealed that it is a low budget television advert for an absorbent towel that is building a cult-like following. A surprising number of people have been spending their spare time making spoofs of the strangely captivating advert, and its finely coiffured presenter Vince Offer.

Clu-blog-reader Pete has now pointed out to me this piece of spam he has received, promoting the Shamwow:

ShamWow spam

I was going to open a competition, inviting readers to think of the best use they could think of for a ShamWow absorbent mopping-up towel, but I was worried some of you might make a connection with the last blog post I wrote..

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Graham Cluley is senior technology consultant at Sophos. The readers of Computer Weekly voted him security blogger of the year in 2009 and 2010, and he pipped Stephen Fry to the title of "Twitter user of the year" too. Which was nice. He was also named "Best Security Blogger" by the readers of SC Magazine in 2011. You can subscribe to Graham's updates on Facebook, follow him on Twitter and circle him on Google Plus for regular updates.