ShamWow infomercial mutates into spam

Graham Cluley
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Have you seen the ShamWow infomercial?

I must admit, I wasn’t aware of the ShamWow internet phenomenon until today. But a quick search of YouTube revealed that it is a low budget television advert for an absorbent towel that is building a cult-like following. A surprising number of people have been spending their spare time making spoofs of the strangely captivating advert, and its finely coiffured presenter Vince Offer.

Clu-blog-reader Pete has now pointed out to me this piece of spam he has received, promoting the Shamwow:

ShamWow spam

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I was going to open a competition, inviting readers to think of the best use they could think of for a ShamWow absorbent mopping-up towel, but I was worried some of you might make a connection with the last blog post I wrote..


Graham Cluley is an award-winning keynote speaker who has given presentations around the world about cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. A veteran of the computer security industry since the early 1990s, he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows, makes regular media appearances, and is the co-host of the popular "Smashing Security" podcast. Follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, or drop him an email.

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