Is it just me, or are spammers getting a little funnier with their subject lines?
Maybe they’re just stealing article titles from The Onion.
Here’s some spam I just got:
Is it just me, or are spammers getting a little funnier with their subject lines?
Maybe they’re just stealing article titles from The Onion.
Here’s some spam I just got:
It’s a new trend in social engineering, to get folks to open up the email.
The more shocking or outrageous, yet filled with relevant ‘people in the news’ the better.
Sad, spam still works – (if it didn’t it would go away)
Me too…yesterday I got one titled “Boy stabs sister’s eye with a fork”.
I didn’t open it since I already have 6 months worth of Chinese Viagra stockpiled.
I’ve noticed it too. For a while I was getting a lot of email that can only be described as, well, mean and taunting (mostly “hey luke, look at your stupid face” or “we have a video of you looking really stupid, luke”–there *are* videos of me looking stupid, but I don’t think the spammers have them yet).
Now, I’m starting to get things like “Both Obama and McCain claim that they will deport Elton John”.
At least it makes deleting spam slightly more enjoyable.
I thought they may have created an ingenious little headline-mashup subject-line tool, but judging by the typos in some of the recent ones I’m getting, maybe it’s all being done manually.
Or maybe that’s what they *want* us to believe. I’m putting on the tinfoil hat just in case.
Here’s a few amusing ones I’ve gotten recently:
NASA can’t find original tape of moon landing
Children Admit To Being Little Sh*ts. Video
Spongebob Squarepants Not Shrek’s Father!
Michael Jackson is hermaphrodite. Watch the video.
Maybe spam requires more creativity and effort than we give it credit for!
Best,
Tami Forman
Director, Corporate Communications
Return Path, Inc.
Good ones, Tami. And you win the prize for making me use wikipedia to check the definition of hermaphrodite before publishing. I *thought* I knew what it meant, but when the spammers throw in “Michael Jackson,” everything becomes less clear.
I just got:
* Madonnas former home destroyed by Jesus, and
* Angry man shoots lawnmower
Cripes, what witty folks these spammers are. Maybe the shock is supposed to shock the body so much that it suddenly requires the drugs commonly advertised by these wretched email-senders.
@Ben: An angry man has indeed shot his lawnmower.