If I could keep spam in a folder
Sunday June 7, 2009 | RandomMy spam emails are now very… custom. They talk to me directly in the subject line, but the actual content has ripped and replicated standard newsletter templates.
“Your sister is waiting at lunch”, “what did I tell u”, “Why weren’t u at party?” and even so far as “You suck” and “U bastard return my calls” show up from time to time.
Mind you, I know they’re completely false and randomly sent – I get just as many “brother” and “coworker” emails on my personal account as anything accurate toward me. They still resonate a bit, oddly enough. I suppose my spam emails are a lot like horoscopes, if I look at it that way.
They’re also increasing in volume – from a prior 3-6 per day to 10-20 per day. Not sure why. Nothing has made it through Gmail’s excellent filter, but there are a lot that arrive regardless.
I do check my spam folder and clear it out. I hate having anything marked as unread. However, reading these ones are little reminders of things I’m not doing… and that’s kind of odd to experience.
Have you noticed an increase in spam? Any intelligent, thought-provoking messages written by someone who doesn’t care about you and will try to scam you out of your personal information?
Honestly I can’t say that I get much spam at all. But the ones that suggest ways I can get a boob job are kinda hard to take seriously. And they are always the ones that get through.
Messages should all be titled with 80’s quotes, occasionally 70’s ones can work as well. But the important part is that when you read the titles you can get rid of all the chit chat ones, cause they are spam and keep all of ones from the A Team.
“I Ain’t Getting On No Plane!”
— Lek Sun Jun 7, 22:30 #
The spam that winds up in my gmail account (which is only known to three people, IIRC) is this strange dream-like pseudo haiku stuff.
The spam that appears in my hotmail account is garden-variety phishing scams, Nigerian stuff, and (a new one) bogus Facebook updates.
My MTS account gets one or two spam emails per month, always completely garbled text.
— Ian Sokoliwski Mon Jun 8, 00:33 #