To err is human, but to really screw up get a human to send a message by email.

This morning, my text-based mail client MailSmith informed me that I had a message from Prosoft containing the following text:

Erase your Hard Drive. Quickly. Securely
As a valued customer, Prosoft would like to offer you a [1] FREE electronic copy* of our NEW release, CleanExit
CleanExit is hard drive wiping software that is simple, fast and easy to use and works on both Macs and PCs. CleanExit securely and permanently deletes all files from any type of hard drive, flash-based drive or camera media card making the files permanently unrecoverable. CleanExit writes over all sectors of your hard drive, making recovery of previous files impossible. Protect yourself from identity theft with CleanExit
*Note:
This offer is valid until May 4th, 2015

Puzzled that this offer expired over three months ago, I opened its HTML version in Safari:

So when you send a message as HTML, make sure that you don’t just paste that in over an older text message. You never know what else you might be sending out…