What's in your spam box?

[dangermousie]

Mr. Mousie and I went to two separate Fourth of July parades today. A small local one and the gigantic all-city one.

Wherein Mr. Mousie proved how well he knows me. One of the floats/marching groups was 'Taiwanese-Americans' so I joke-whispered to Mr. Mousie whether it would be OK to yell 'I love your dramas!' to which he replied: 'Yeah, right. You just want to ask 'Do you have such-and-such's phone number?'' LOL.

Will get to replies shortly. Promise. But for now: I have always wanted to do it.

Behind the cut are the subject lines of all the emails that today were located in the spam filter of my inbox. There is a certain anarchic creativity to them:



1. Hope u like it

[not your spelling, that's for sure]

2. gratifying satellite

[intriguingly free-form]

3. Prepare Now or Pay Later

[rather messianic in a bloodthirsty fashion]

4. Any new idea

[unlikely]

5. Whats up

[misguided optimist. Any friend likely to email me knows how to spell]

6. Is this correct

[see point 5]

7. Great chance for u

[yes, to avoid spam]

8. womanly avocado pit

[OK, this is a bit kinky. If it was James Joyce trying to be frisky]

9. Re:

[Oh, come on. Try to be original, at least]

10. Only we can help u out

[Would I trust someone who doesn't know how to spell 'you?']

11. Summer Loving: Send Them a Blast!

[speaks for itself]

12. presenting funding with ease

[Really? I want to invest in that nifty Brooklyn Bridge]

13. eh shin impinge

[I don't speak Esperanto]

14. Forget it

[if you insist]

15. high-quality V1agra, C1al1s and other medz.

[I would trust someone who doesn't know how to use spell-checker with medications? Yeah. Also, wrong gender!]

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

sigh...most of mine involves bigger equipment and making women happy. I blame the "comics" interest.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

lol, I get those too.

[greycoupon.livejournal.com]

Welllllll... as I know too much about this stuff.

The spelling is done on purpose to get around spam filters. A lot of those are "buzz" words they look out for. The idea with subject lines is to get you to click on the email. Yeah, those are just pretty sad.

"womanly avocado pit" - I have NO clue about. Perversely kinky, yes.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the spelling thing makes sense. Man, are some of these spambots annoying.

[janlake83.livejournal.com]

yeah i get the same ones... should i be worried that i get an enormous mail for bmg and free things... like a new ipod phone, laptops, ipods, etc.... that is the majority of my spam...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Isn't it nice how many complete strangers want to give us free stuff? Amazing... :P

[janlake83.livejournal.com]

yes it is... heheh

[carviangli.livejournal.com]

OMG! Lol...these ones are quite hilarious
Once in a while I check my junk mail incase something important is in there and once I saw one entitled "Russian mail order bride" so I thought it was amusing and read it and it was like
"I'm 22,pretty and ready to be your wife....email me at (some obscure email address)...errr...lol
Yeh..being a 15 year old high school student I am so interested in getting a mail-order Russian bride...what the hell?!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL. Talk about the wrong target audience!