Because I am the webmaster of a fairly popular site I get swathes and swathes of spam mail. Phishing mails are fairly common (along with Viagra Cialis and penis extension of course). The phishing mail quoted below was particularly audacious. It has I feel a self reflexivity awareness of its own status as a cultural (phishing) object, it has irony, it calls into question notions of authenticity and depth, quotes freely from discourses of security and commerce and calling into question Beckian notions of 'risk and trust', in short it has all the characteristics of a post modern artifact.
From:Abbey National Plc
Dear Customer
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Click on the link below and you will be taken straight to where you can activate your account.
