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Spammers: Not Even Trying Any More

Saturday 8th July 2006

Mr Pantograph Snaffle - YOU'VE GOT SPAM!

Remember the good old days when email spam was straightforward? You’d crack open your email account to be met with a deluge of subject lines promising HOT HOT SEX and WILD, WILD, WILD TRACTION ACTION - and that was just the ad for Microsoft Monster Truck Madness - and perhaps the odd message, buried within it, from your mate who’d just discovered the Internet. Life was simpler then.

Nowadays, spammers go to all sorts of lengths to make their subject lines look innocuous, and one of their favourites is including a common name in the hope that it’s yours. You know the sort of thing: “Hi, Dave!” or “Check this out, John Smith!”. That’s some good spamming, and fairly likely to be semi-successful.

Then we have the cretins who bombard huz.org.uk’s role accounts:

Paddle Board. Pan Slavist. Pantograph Snaffle?!

Pantograph… Snaffle?

Good work, guys.


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