Spam

We had Friday off from work so I have 4 days of spam to digest this morning. And it seems if I was premature in suggesting that the levels were dropping back to the usual 50-60 a day, I think the new usual is going to be quite a bit higher. Reports from Friday through Monday indicate that my work email received 94,114, 85 & 94 pieces of unsolicited junk. Here are some low lights:

Heyz,, me again from Dickerson@glay.org Funny, I must have missed his first email amongst all the spam I’ve been getting recently.

Olsen Twins use online Pharmacy from LakishaLondonAnas@vSt.com I wonder how much endorsement money this meant to Mary Kate & Ashley?

Please Respond by Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:47:1… from gemmabehm@freemail.nl This seems to be a popular new ploy. I got a bunch of these from various senders with a time to respond about 12 hours after receipt of the message. I had better get right on them, if it is not too late.

[no sender] seems awfully insistent that he get in touch with me about [no subject] because of the 94 emails I received between 6:00 AM Sunday and 6:00 AM Monday, 11 of them were from him.

Spam levels at my work email address has slowed some with Sunday’s report being just 56 messages. Saturday’s and today’s were a little higher at 71 and 74 respectively. The highlights…

Surpesfat dielrvey from pzwaqbntif@cgocable.com, AKA: Anagram Man

Hey, grape@www.want-a-domain-name.com it is half way through January, a little late for me to be getting Health Tips for December

housewife seeks coock from RBSNZNCYYOVG@maktoob.com. Seeking what? Which one is the extra letter?

Since Tuesday morning’s peak of 102 pieces of spam the total has been slowly ebbing. Wednesday’s total was 99, Thursday was 83 and this morning only 72. I’ll let you how the weekend goes on Monday, but for now here are a couple of my favorites:

Samurai st0ck InfO from that noted Japanese warrior, ngdgqasapwibfj@singmail.com

bequeath She sleeps around from Shakespeare using the nom de plume, Aelgcz@soha.com

The hit man I hired, bjfdesliwqbq@francimel.com discretely emails me, hey bro-its done

This week’s most anticipated email is [no subject] from [no sender]. Finally. I have been waiting on pins and needles to hear from [him] on [that].

Between 6:00 AM yesterday and 6:00 AM today Postini stopped 102 messages from reaching my in box. Do you think that they know this is a business address? Most of the come-ons are about stocks. There are the usual pharmacy ads and of course a couple references to the size of my manhood and it staying power, but I bet 75% of the spam is about stock opportunities, my favorite: Under The Radar Stox from xfxjkvrjmzlt@dora.com.

Winner of best spam message overall today is: don`t be an asshole Tom from ovnhc@move2va.com

Back on December 16th I posted about how the email spammers had scored a new record by hitting my work email with 75 messages, well that record has fallen. Not once, but twice in the last two days. Saturday the Postini program blocked 85 slices of spam. Sunday it stopped 92 and was circumvented by 2 more.

The spammers must be busy this time of year, because last Friday’s total came close to that earlier record too, but was just one shy at 74.

Our company subscribes to a spam blocking service. Every morning the first message in the inbox is from the service listing all the spam so I can check to see if any “Real” email got stopped before getting in my inbox. Today was a new record for me in terms of quantity, usually I get around 50-60 bits of spam, but today I had 75 caught in the netting: