Best spam subject lines I have received recently:
Insanity may help you
Manage multiple priorities
I sorceress
I do kind of like those spams that are random jumbles of semi-coherent text with sophisticated words; they almost make sense, in a surreal sort of way, like talking to someone with schizophrenia who has neologisms, word salad, and radically de-trained thoughts, and yet who has some meaning in there if you know how to look.
I’m always tempted to write back to the spammers offering me easy online degrees. I have a PhD– what can you do for me? I don’t, though. In addition to the regular Nigerian 419 scams, I seem to get different types of spam subject lines in my different email accounts. In my main personal account, I get more of the v1agra/c1al1s spam (note to spammmers: your clever substitution of numbers for letters doesn’t fool my spam filter). In my work email account, I get lots and lots of offers for knockoff watches. I wonder how different spammers are crawling different sites or have purchased different lists in order to send me these different spam profiles.
What’s the most interesting spam you’ve received lately?
July 29, 2010 at 3:14 pm
oooh… we just got our first spam blog comment… they want us to play free games
I wonder if that means you shouldn’t use the Sp-word on the internet
July 29, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Can I count all the emails from a listserv run by my boss?
July 30, 2010 at 9:12 am
Those ones are pretty funny. Unfortunately, if only 1 out of 10,000 falls for it, it works for them!
July 30, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Ooh, here’s today’s subject line: insoluble heartbeat Minoan
June 17, 2012 at 9:59 pm
I could be cool to list all the most melodic spam words (insoluble heartbeat Minoan is pretty good) and compose songs where all the lyrics are collages made from spam comments/emails. It could be a band niche. It can be hard for a band to come up with original lyrics, so why not use junk word recycling;-)