I have a bad habit of going through my spam folder and checking each message to make sure it’s not a valid one that slipped through the cracks. I don’t know why I waste time doing this, because I’ve probably recovered fewer than 10 false positives in the past four years or so. But I do it anyway, and now you can feel my pain with a new feature on the site: The Weekly Spam.
Each and every week, I’ll pick out a message from my spam bucket and post it here so that everyone can waste a little time and see the kind of outrageous crap I receive on a daily basis. Most of these messages are addressed to postmaster@<domain> or abuse@<domain>, because you can pretty much count on those two addresses being universally available. And since I maintain eight different domains, spammers probably parse the WHOIS database and indiscriminately target everything they find.
Well, enough about the theory of spam. Let’s get to the good stuff, mmmmkay? Our first Weekly Spam comes to us this week from ”Coy Marks”, and it was sent to ”Leonel Hickman”. People don’t usually call me Leonel, but what the heck—this week I guess my name is Leonel. Since I recognized the sender’s name right away, I thought I’d continue reading the rest of the message. The subject is “Re: Travel #34″. Oh, of course! This must be in regards to that travel inquiry I sent! You know, travel inquiry #34…
Anyway, everything looks good so far, so let’s see what the actual message says:
Im a atractive blonde, brunette with brown eyes, and I’m looking for an intelligent man to communicate by e-mail, Skype, or on real dates!
My home page: [redacted]
Hmm. Is she blonde or brunette? Maybe she’s naturally brunette with dyed blonde hair. I’m a little confused as to what she’s asking for, though. Does she just want someone to talk to online, or is she looking for someone to go on dates with? It sounds like an either/or situation, but not both. Well, whatever. This has been our first presentation of The Weekly Spam.
Comments are open, so let me know what kind of spam you’d like to see next week!
Uh oh, Rachel better look out. Next time Matt goes to “the bay area” make sure that his tickets is not for flight #34, otherwise he might just be going to see his skype girlfriend.