The Spam Diaries: Episode #1 of Some

March 24th, 2006 2006-03-24T19:52:25-0800

I don’t often make posts out of Spam, but this was just a touch too priceless.

The message reads: Personally, I never use more than a single link in the comment I post because doing so can trigger spam catchers if the user has that plugin activated, whereas a single link will not.

Needless to say, Akismet caught it.

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6 Responses to “The Spam Diaries: Episode #1 of Some”

  1. Comment by http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk Matthias

    April 3rd, 2006 at 4:29 pm 2006-04-03PDT16:29:41-0700

    I recently got this one: subject: “whatever”; text-only content (of course it went right into the junk-mail folder): “buy viagra or die.”

    Hilarious. Now that the spam doesn’t work so well any more, maybe some threats will help!

  2. Comment by http://www.ekkoe.com Ben

    April 5th, 2006 at 6:14 pm 2006-04-05PDT18:14:41-0700

    Hahaha, that’s a classic! Will they ever learn?

  3. Comment by http://www.ibboard.co.uk IBBoard

    April 6th, 2006 at 6:06 pm 2006-04-06PDT18:06:56-0700

    I’ve had spam offering to sell me mailing lists. Wonder whether it’s the same mailing list they used to send me the spam?

    Also had some ‘failed’ spam that’s either not had a body, some haven’t even managed all of the headers, and I had one that attached an alternate HTML version to the email, only to leave the HTML version empty.

    Most of the comment spam I had was fairly standard, though. Apart from the odd “like your site…..[insert random poker/drugs spam here]” comment.

  4. Comment by http://www.ibboard.co.uk IBBoard

    April 6th, 2006 at 7:46 pm 2006-04-06PDT19:46:01-0700

    I just got a trackback spam for msn.com. Not a clue why anyone would do that – random crazy spammers.

    Also, some of the junk filler in spam emails can be quite interesting in a completely odd way. It’s there to make the spam to normal word balance less spammy, but I posted some interesting ones on my forum (http://forums.hiveworldterra.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=666)

  5. Comment by http://www.ibboard.co.uk IBBoard

    April 7th, 2006 at 7:53 am 2006-04-07PDT07:53:15-0700

    Completely random – over last night I got another thirteen trackback spams for Google, MSN and Yahoo. Some scripting kiddy who doesn’t have a clue? Or some spammer without two brain cells to rub together?

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    November 28th, 2006 at 12:06 am 2006-11-28PST00:06:04-0800

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