Law Actually: Text-o-rama – Personal Injury Spam

Sunday, 22 January 2012

Text-o-rama – Personal Injury Spam

I was clearing out my text messages earlier today and came across this brarmer I received a while back.

“Our records indicate that you still haven’t claimed the £3750 compensation for the accident you had. To claim for free reply ‘YES’ to this message.”

Interestingly, I didn’t delete it immediately; perhaps I left it in anticipation of an accident? I’m a glass-half-empty kind of chap, after all.

While keeping it in my inbox might have brought me some comfort, it didn’t stop a little bit of me dying inside when I read it.

Does anybody have the number of Jackson LJ so I can forward this on? I think he’d be interested. Failing that, how about Anne Robinson?

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2 comments:

Ian26 January 2012 at 20:02
I have the same £ 3750 for an accident which i had no injury at all and was 1 year ago.
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Android27 January 2012 at 23:03
I got that message too... Nearly replied to it. I could do with a 3 grand right now!
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Sunday, 22 January 2012

Text-o-rama – Personal Injury Spam

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