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Spamming Bastards

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.


5 Comments

Comment By: stan

Saturday 8th July 2006 | 11:51

I got a good phishmail thing from a fake Paypal. It actually beat Gmail’s phishing filter and it said something along the lines of (but more professional and ‘realistic’ sounding) “we have included your username as proof that this email is from Paypal”.

It was only on close inspection that I noticed that they _hadn’t_ included my username, the fuckers.

Comment By: MC Kingsley

Monday 10th July 2006 | 07:40

Narodno Pozorishte? Where the hell did you get that photo?

Comment By: Huz

Monday 10th July 2006 | 20:37

I took it in Sarajevo. Strangely enough, I only have one photo featuring a pantograph!

I presume you recognise Narodno Pozorishte as Serbo-Croat or whatever – what’s it mean again?

Comment By: MC Kingsley

Tuesday 11th July 2006 | 19:35

National Theater.

Comment By: Morto

Saturday 15th July 2006 | 18:13

Hee, some spam is pure poetry. This is one I got for ‘love pills’.

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