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03 September 2006 Blog Home : September 2006 : Permalink

Spam Opportunities

Wading through the spam again my eye was caught by some of the feeble attempts. Unfortunately, unlike some other times when the spam is poetic or vaguely inspirational, this week's samples are more ordinary but yet they seem to deserve a wider audience....

The first is short and weird. Although (not by chance I'm sure) it seems that flybyairwayz.com is actually selling genu1ne v1agra and c!a1!s the message fails to let you do anything other than corresapond by email. I'm trying to work out if the mispellings are intentional or just the writer's lack of typing/english ability

Subject: look no more

Hi there lovely,

This kind of opportunity comes onecs in a life. I don't want

to miss it. Do you? I am coming to your bpblace in faew days

and Ia though may be we can meet eaach other. If you don't mind

I can send you my pictcure. I am a girl.

Youb can corresapond with me using my email [email protected]

Then there is this one which actually deserves the award for most pointless ever. Why is it most pointless? because I'm damned it decodes to make any sense whatsoever although it does appear to include a URL or two in it somewhere. Here's the message:
Subject: Message subject
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:01:05 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
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