I received a really funny piece of spam from a Mr. David Breno. There's a somewhat serious side to it, but it had me cracking up.

First, the funny part:



I scanned the letter, used a web-based OCR program referenced here (converted it to text) and then used Xtranormal's Text-to-Movie feature to create the movie. With a hat tip to Ze Frank, of course (and also to Adrianos Facchetti who turned me on to Xtranormal).  (Xtranormal's movies are strangely captivating - regardless of the subject matter - in my opinion.)

The Serious Part?

The letter was addressed to a misspelling of my name which is identical to the misspelling Comcast somehow ended up with. Coincidentally enough, this is the only time I've ever "mistakenly" spelled my name like this. I'm reasonably certain my name and address ended up on Comcast's list, and through this ended up on third party lists. Pretty sloppy on Comcast's part.

More on that later.  You can access a copy of the letter here: [pdf].