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'Delete This at Your Peril:
The Bob Servant emails'
by Neil Forsyth
(2010/Berlinn Ltd)
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Well, not really. I hate spam. Who doesn't? Well, Bob Servant for one! I've just finished reading Neil Forsyth's 'Delete this at your Peril: The Bob Servant Emails', a book of email dialogues between the very naughty boy Bob Servant and various would-be email scammers. While most of us delete or report spam emails asking us to help out broke African princes or accept dodgy money laundering jobs, Bob replies, often pushing the conversation in the most surreal directions. (Talking big cats anyone?) Despite this, I was amazed to read how long Bob managed to keep the three ring circus going before the spammers finally gave up and realised they were not going to get what they wanted. It was also fun to see the different directions he went in when he received the same emails from different people.
On the whole, this was an amusing rather than hilarious book, although it did have its laugh-out-loud moments (I think the conclusion of ‘Bobby and Benjamin are New Friends’ was probably my favourite!). It would make a great little gift for anyone with a twisted sense of humour who gets as irate as a dead parrot owner about unwanted emails.
