Most of the spam that reaches me comes as emails, but my blog also attracts a fair share of spammy comments. Some are particularly lame (and some are pretty amusing). Here's one of the former, from a spammer I presume is trying to increase the search engine ranking for a site selling … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2013
Lame spam of the day: Google Doc
Please tell me no one would ever click on something like this (I only wish it were true). Plain text, bad English, the document isn't actually attached, and the CLICK HERE link doesn't point to google.com. Sender: Laila Brenner [brenner.laila@gmail.com] Subject: Fwd: Attached … [Read more...]
Lame spam of the day: Meeting invitation from George Adoo
I'm not sure if this one is lame (the subject, text, and double salutation are certainly lame) or clever. This spam arrived in the form of a meeting invitation. My Outlook spam filter (SpamBayes) doesn't seem to look at meeting invitations, and it also slipped past the SpamAssassin … [Read more...]