This one spamming for a travel service had me laughing so loudly I woke up the cat:

"Did a luxury cruise ship experienϲe that iոϲlսded pаssing by Great Smoky Mοuntainѕ National Park. "er, right ( Read more... )

Amusing twist on the Nigerian Scam emails ... The grammar's not too bad.

After reading this, I almost wish they were real people. I'd love to sell tickets to the cage match between 'em.

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If my spam filter is any indication, 52% of the spam starts with the following text:

Please click "Not spam" above if delivered to spam folder

Amusing approach - assuming I'm too greedy to admit to not being the person who filed the fraud report. Of course this assumes I'm stupid enough to fall for it in the first place ... I love the "fill in the blanks" approach. This is like the Mad-Libs of Nigerian scam ( Read more... )

A very interesting article on the sourcing and payment handling for the stuff that spam is trying to sell you ... in other words, the *business* and fulfillment part of spam as opposed to the technical bits. Buying time on a huge botnet and successfully slipping spam past lots of filters and crafting ways to fool people into clicking on it doesn't ( Read more... )

"Boost mating frequent"

The scammers have leapt onto this golden opportunity to send phishing emails about the bank change and cash in on any potential customer confusion. Big-time ( Read more... )

From my spam filter a few minutes ago:

"Our products will be on your door in confidence."

"Your new good-looking watch is sure to catch everybody is eye and make populace admire it."