When bad spam goes good

Spam mostly is annoying but every now and then it amuses me. It shows the human face behind the scum buckets.

There is the "What the f???" ... you're spamming me, but no trying to sell anything? Do you know how this spam thing works?

Call out Gouranga be happy!!!
Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga ....
That which brings the highest happiness!!

Then there is the speculative, "for those who were born yesterday" award ...

Dear sir,

I am a pour man in Bangladesh. I just send you a simple massage to you. If possible to give me some money or donation.

Shohel Razib

6 Comments

15 Nov, '04 9:56 AM

1. matthew

I mostly get ads for Rolex/Oakley/Weil/other ‘replicas’ in my junk mail. And the odd ‘your mortgage application has been approved! Please send us your account number and PIN!’, like, SURE I will. I’d be glad of the odd mail spreading the word about the highest happiness of Gouranga. Whatever that is.

15 Nov, '04 10:04 AM

2. Em

I keep getting Nigerian 419 scams, and apparently I need a bigger penis emails.. never the breast englargement ones just the penis ones… have I missed something with those mails?

15 Nov, '04 10:57 AM

3. Gordon

I get the mortgage one, some GREAT SOFTWARE RESURCES (sic) and a few of the more poetic, randomly generated ones.

Not that I see many as MailWasher keeps them at bay.

15 Nov, '04 7:29 PM

4. razorhead

I got one for ‘boyish young girls’ which might make it a targetted advertising campaign I guess…

16 Nov, '04 5:25 PM

5. Dragon

I had both “Fresh amplify your phallus product” and “Such medecine - gnomish costs!” as spam subjects earlier.

On a side note, the amount of comment spam I’ve been getting has stretched my sense of humour to breaking point.

16 Nov, '04 5:27 PM

6. Adrian

I’ve stopped counting but I’m at about 150+ a day minimum.

And my smart ploy to bounce my mail via GMail to despam it failed. I’ll probably move to a host in December that has spam protection.

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