Coming Soon, The Sarah Palin Sex Video

I'm not saying there is a Sarah Palin sex video, I just think that's the next logical scam from the spammers who currently are spreading spyware across the Internet via a malicious email whose subject line promises an "Obama sex video!!!"

It's hard to believe there still are people who would click on such a link in an unsolicited email, but as enticements go, "nude," "naked," "sex" and "free" are tough to beat. Still, you've got to have an extra gullible gene to plunge ahead after reading this:

Sensation!!! United States Senator for Illinois Barack Obama in 2007 was travel to Ukraine and have sex action with many ukrainian girls! You may view this private porno in a flash video. Download and view now. Please send this news to your friends!

Obama it's not right choice!!!

Now, I give pretty low marks to our national media covering this election, but I have to believe it wouldn't have escaped the attention of the many journalists who have been following Obama around almost every day since the beginning of last year that, at some point, he had slipped off to the Ukraine to "have sex action with many ukrainian girls!" Certainly Bill O'Reilly would have noted it.

So right away there's a credibility issue. And while I wouldn't argue that those who took the bait deserve the potential theft of their passwords and banking data, I will say that anyone who downloaded and viewed the porn clip (yes, there is one, but it does not feature Obama) and then followed the instructions to "Please send this news to your friends!"...well, that's when I start talking about licenses to use the Internet.

And as to the email's assertion that "Obama it's not right choice!!!", I'd prefer to see the video before making up my mind, thank you very much. Oh, that's right, there is no video.

Finally, a helpful suggestion to our non-English-speaking spammers: You really should consider off-shoring the editorial work for your product to an English-speaking market. Your copy targeting the American audience generally is riddled with clumsy phrasing, grammatical errors and poor punctuation, not to mention an excessive use of exclamation points. It lacks polish, and that hurts your credibility. Also, too many of your premises aren't believable: "Paris Hilton Nominated For Nobel Prize," etc. Verisimilitude, people.