Oh, dearie me...

[enismirdal]

I got an e-mail in my experimental-identity's e-mail account today:

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 02:12:14 -0500
Subject: Writing Contest - $10,000.00 Cash Prize and Many Others
From: Contest@Association-Writers.org Add to Address Book

Dear Author,

Your contributions to writing are greatly appreciated. The Association of Young Journalists and Writers rewards that effort with many prizes and awards. Submit your writing and win.

The Association of Young Journalists and Writers
http://www.ayjw.org

Riiiight.

1. That e-mail is only displayed on AFF.net and FF.net. Therefore, they either got it from a random generator, or peeled it off a site, most likely AFF.net.
2. Their site looks 'respectable', i.e. not one to endorse fanfiction.
3. Their site looks 'respectable', i.e. not one to endorse gay romance and erotica.
4. I only use that pseudonym to write experimental stuff, often of a rather lacking quality. It is NOT good.

Ergo, I have no idea why they have e-mailed me about this; has anyone else received anything similar?

Comments

[aperfectdot.livejournal.com]

I got the exact same email yesterday as well.

[doltaghey.livejournal.com]

I got one too and I'm not even young. They're clearly just harvesting bucketloads of addresses without checking the accounts that they're attached to. They don't even archive fiction, as far as I can tell.