today's favorite spam subject line

[hattifattener]

"harlot infestation"

I wonder if there are businesses to help you deal with a harlot infestation? Maybe this is what Rapid-Rooter does in Australia?

Comments

[beaq]

*SPLORF!*

Hey, STOP that.

[jinasphinx]

This is what I don't understand: why does spam these days show up with nonsensical subject lines and body text? Back in the day (*grumble grumble*), spam actually made sense, in an annoying, crazy way. It was a sales pitch for green cards, or Viagra, or whatever. Now it's gibberish generated by lemurs banging on keyboards somewhere. What the heck is the goal?

[hattifattener]

I think it's noise intended to distract spam scanners from the spammy parts of the message. Often it distracts the humans as well.

F'r example, I sometimes get stock-pumping spam where all the spamaliciousness is in a few big GIFs (often chopped up into random-size pieces and tiled back together). The textual part of the message is random text.

Or the HTML half of a MIME message will be spam, and the text half (intended for programs which don't understand HTML) will be noise.

And I think there's a lot of spam out there that's just broken. After all, it doesn't cost them anything to send out a few billion mistakes.