Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers - Hardcover

Bob Servant

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845132866 ISBN 13: 9781845132866

Publisher: Aurum Press, 2007

Synopsis

This is a hilarious collection of email exchanges starring the anti-hero of spam, Bob Servant. Spam is the plague of the electronic age. It comprises 90 per cent of all emails and GBP150 million was conned from Britons in 2006 alone. 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 this title

Review:

'Genius! Highly entertaining and brilliantly deranged' -- Maxim

`Hilarious. I laughed so much I nearly gave him my account number' -- Martin Kelner, The Guardian

About the Author:

Bob Servant is a sixty-two-year-old, semi-retired resident of Dundee. He has previously worked as a merchant sailor and window cleaner, among other occupations, but now describes himself as 'an unemployed gigolo'. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845132866
• ISBN 13: 9781845132866
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160