Damn you spammers are good
I love seeing the new spammers
techniques
I've had the same e-mail address for 10+ years
now. I had it long before the first spam was ever sent and while I've added new
secret and non-published e-mail addresses over the years, I still read mail at
my old address which has become a spam honey pot getting several hundred spams a
day. Entourage does a decent enough job of catching it, but I still need to
check out that junk mail folder to see if it caught something it shouldn't have.
I sort my junk mail folder by subject (since sender is usually something made up
anyway), so I constantly get to see what new tricks the spammers are up to in
their titles, trying to get you to read them. Sure, you get the "Hey Joe! Read
This!" kind of stuff, and then you get the zillion different spellings of Viagra
and Pharmacy and Cialis. For a while they were just using random combinations of
2 or 3 words which led to some really cool post-modern band names (the best of
which I've been keeping in a file for my next musical venture). Then they moved
on to random sentences from books. Now they are using random sentences from CNN
or something because it is very topical. Being a news junkie myself I have to
admit being tempted to open a few of these since they aren't too different from
the various e-mail news alerts I
get.
I've found that if I can't be
amused by the spammers, I might as well just get off the internet once and for
all. They're like dung beetles or cockroaches.
Posted: Sat
- October 22, 2005 at 10:20 AM
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