Spam As Folk Art for 2007 June 20

Excerpted from a sort of fake-personal-ad-phishing junk message I got this week:

Hello, Hans

I think we had correspondence a long time ago if it was not you I am sorry. If it was I could not answer you because my Mozilla mail manager was down for a long time and I could not fix it only with my friend's help I got the emails address out for me ..:)

Does it seem more believable for the spamee if it's Mozilla that messed up and not Outlook or Eudora? And Yahoo! Mail is even less believable. Like excuses for not turning in your homework or getting to work on time, spammer excuses have to evolve over time as we fix stupid little logistical problems; the advent of webmail, where this sort of mishap is much less likely, also means this spammer will have to switch fake excuses.

Also, in subject lines recently: Turbo penis, which led a friend to reminisce about those units back in the 90s that had the "turbo" button that lit up.