Comments | nematoddity: oh, this is beautiful

nematoddity

oh, this is beautiful

Mar 05, 2012 23:40

from: AGENT STEPHANIE MADU (complaints@efccdesk.org)
reply-to: westerunion_remmit@w.cn
date: Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:11 PM
subject: MESSAGE ALERT:BEWARE OF INTERNET TRANSACTIONSTook me a bit to gut out the spam folder; for some reason, usually it hits auto-delete around 500 messages, and I noticed there were 781 just hanging around. So I checked. ( Read more... )

spam, nigeria, spam inventiveness

Comments 2

laura_seabrook March 6 2012, 22:14:54 UTC

Well maybe there's a scam bot that has a recursive algorithm in it, or maybe the idea is that the more complex of traps will ensnare the more wary. Seems rather odd, like the spam posts I see in infiltrated forums, which seem to be random snippets from web page text.

nematoddity March 6 2012, 22:32:27 UTC

Yeah, that one's been going for a while now. Oddly, some of those are weirdly readable. I just can't figure out what they're trying to sell--some of those are just phrases and oddity patched together and there isn't even a link. Is it spam if it's just a passage from Fear and Loathing in bed with a T.S. Eliot poem?