Subscribe to RSS 2.0The Spam Age
Weird that no one's cracked down on spam yet, isn't it? Either by catching the culprits - because presumably if they remain totally anonymous they can't cash in on their spam. Or you might have expected us to change the way we use e-mail to make spamming more difficult.
Spam is annoying and a fair amount of it you wouldn't want kids (or your mum) to read. But I'm not the first to spot that the way in which spam text constantly evolves to foil spam filters can occasionally result in some surreally zen-like prose. One item I got today actually was poetry. No mention of V1$$agra that I could see. And lately I've started to get a lot of German spam. And since I don't speak German it's even more pointless than most. The picture above was included in the most recent e-mail. I don't even know what that is. Apologies if it turns out to be something rude, but really, spam for things I can't identify in languages I don't speak surely has to be a side-effect of the internet that no one predicted.
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We were having massive problems with spam despite using McAfee's spamkiller option and now our email is all routed via our gmail account and since starting that we only get one or two pieces of spam through each day now. Which is frankly incredible. And it rarely blocks anything legit which is also amazing.
Posted by: Vanessa on October 25, 2007 01:34 PM
It's an electrified German bunny-killing machine!
For a time I got spam with excerpts of "Brokeback Mountain" in it (the story, not the movie). I read somewhere that the reason they don't get caught is people who get duped by spammers are too embarrassed to come forward.
Posted by: KatharineC on October 25, 2007 01:53 PM
Must be terrible to be a spammer. It's all so mysterious though, do they all sit in a big underground chamber together, typing? Do they work from home? Are there "spam-rings"? Have any ever been caught?
Gmail is brilliant for filtering it, hardly any slip through.
Raumduft means the "area smell" which, if that is some sort of animal carrier, it probably would.
Posted by: leila on October 26, 2007 07:56 AM
They do have spam rings, only they're known as 'fritters' in the lingo.
Posted by: Rob on October 26, 2007 09:29 AM