Almost from the moment the president announced that he authorized spying on Americans’ phone calls and e-mail, I started getting suspicious messages in my electronic mailbox from an address called “cia dot gov.” They say:
“YOU HAVE VISITED MORE THAN 30 ILLEGAL WEBSITES! ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS!
And then the e-mail has an attachment.
It’s signed “Faithfully yours, Steven Allison”, who is identified as being with the CIA office of Public Affairs. This worried me for a moment, but it doesn’t take much looking around to discover that it's a scam – a technique that has been used for a long time by mischief makers to spread a computer virus. Any supposed CIA guy who sings his mail “Faithfully Yours” has got to be up to no good, right?
On the Morning Show today, we did a fake interview with “Steven Allison”, with Jim Ed doing an amazing job flipping back and forth between Steven’s cultured façade and his real personality – a grungy Arkansas spammer with too many dogs.