Spam

Spam-O-Licious

‘Congratulations to tracey_stokes_xp80@hotmail.com for the robot submitted spam of the week.

Each night I bare my back eagerly to Mary and her nee­dles. She pokes deep and I moan in pain as she moans in ecstasy and hatred. She adds more color to the design, works with bru­tal pre­ci­sion to bring Rae’s face out in sharper relief. After ten min­utes she tires and will work no more. She puts the tools away and I go to the full-length mir­ror on the wall. The lantern on the shelf flick­ers like a jack-o-lantern in a high wind, but there is enough light for me to look over my shoul­der and exam­ine the tat­too. And it is beau­ti­ful. Bet­ter each night as Rae’s face becomes more and more defined.

High Praise Indeed

Here is a sample of some of the recent comments submitted to me at Mr. Miata National Headquarters:

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Today was the Valve Store’s annual Fun Day and unlike last year the line at the photo booth was very short, so Donna and I had our picture taken…

Welcome to South Carolina

US 301, before I-95, was a pretty main north/south route, but since, not so much. But if you do decide to get off the Interstate and travel 301 through South Carolina into Georgia when you get across the Savannah River there you will find one of the last remaining state Welcome Centers not on an Interstate. Coming north from Georgia, you will be welcomed to the Palmetto State by this odd little representation of the South Carolina flag and 50 yards later our abandoned counterpart to the remaining Georgia Welcome Center.

— my favorite comment spam from the last week or so —
My brother rec?om?mended I would sim?i?lar to this web site. He was appro?pri?ate. This truly built my day. You are able to not con?sider just how much time I had spent want?ing for this.

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Spam or Marketing Tool?

This email made it through the first line of Spam Defense at work, Postini, but got caught in the second line, Outlook’s Spam Filter.

From: Marianne Gardner [mailto:Marianne.Gardner@lateforbreakfast.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 3:24 PM
To: A Cast Of Thousands (including me)
Subject: Re: Re: Job

Hello,
I am glad to inform you about available vacancy C16882 in advertising business.

Position name: Supply manager.
Branch: Supply
Positioning: All States USA
Salary: $75000
Reports to: Senior Supply manager
Duties : Coordinate supply projects.
Manages the creation and maintenance of Equipment Bill of Materials. Reviews purchase orders to ensure adherence to quality and procedures. Control activities for all phases of supply projects

Requirements:
- Citizenship: US
- Bachelors degree
- Credit rating more then 700
- 3 years of work experience
- Strong computer skills
- High level of communication skills
- organizational skills

If you are ready to move forward please send your response with resume.

ronald.hrdepartment@gmail.com

At first I instantly classified it as spam because it contained a random and unconnected group of ASCO & Emerson employees and the different email addresses of the sender and the one they wanted a reply to. But then the sender’s email address URL caught my eye, lateforbreakfast.com, it intrigued me. So I opened a browser and entered the URL into the address line and hit enter. What could happen?

Turns out Late for Breakfast is the name of an Australian Pop/Jazz group and their web page is quirky enough to make me read the whole thing and even listen to a couple of their tunes. The music is not bad actually, kind of reminded me of Steely Dan.

So, what do you think?
Spam – just something to get me to reply to the gmail address to verify that mine was a valid address or some sort of monetary scam.
Marketing ploy – knowing the type of person who would be curious about the URL would aslo be the type that would enjoy that style of music.

Darth Monday

Here are some recent comment spams received here at Mr. Miata Headquarters for your enjoyment:

  1. Thanks for the info. This was very interesting. =)
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Comment Spam

I’ve talked alot about email spam here, but I get comment span at the Life of Brian too. Anyone who has a blog (or for that matter a web page that allows comments) know what I’m talking about.

There are several ways to fight it and here at LOB we use three different methods. Firstly, commenting is closed on any post that is older than 14 days because the spammers love to seek out the posts that are off the front page, so you won’t notice them. The second line of defense is the very first time someone comments, they have to have their comment approved before it gets published. This keeps the spammers out because it usually comes from addresses like ariana_monet_zc@xrea.com or scarlett.mathasi@oyps.com, but the next time they comment it goes right out there. The third way is using a plug-in that comes with wordpress called Akismet. It won’t like most email spam fighters by comparing the incoming comment’s email address, IP address and looking for key words and phrases to dump them into queue where I can review them. In May it caught 34, in June 35 and so far this month 28. Sometimes I think I don’t get many comments here, so maybe I should strip the links and email addresses and post them because they can be quite interesting. This morning I had four:

You need to seriously write some more about this.
Coming right up!

A gink begins cutting his wisdom teeth the initially without surcease he bites eccentric more than he can chew.
Of course he does.

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Huh?!?

Thanks for the awesome post!
You are very welcome…

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Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 723

You’ve Got Mail!

Between Friday at 6:00AM and Monday at 6:00AM I received 171 pieces of Spam at my work email address. 165 of them were caught by the company’s spam gaurdian Postini, 4 ended up in the junk mail folder thanks to Outlook and 2 made it successfully into my inbox.

Here are my favorite subject lines that sound dirty, but probably aren’t:
Do it please from jyfyfiemu5227@tpnet.pl received at 7:47 am on Friday
You don’t have to take bald lying down from Pamela@b2happycinq.info received at 1:47 am on Saturday
Become a Multi-Lingual Master! from info@andlerig.com received at 3:21 pm on Sunday

Biggest volume subject lines:
On Friday with 9 – FIFA World Cup South Africa… bad news
On Saturday with 7 – Angelina Jolie invited you to join Facebook…
On Sunday with 6 – asco.com account notification (our old emal server domain)

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