Spam update

[vvvexation]

Right now the spammers appear to be enamored of "boner medicine" as a euphemism for Viagra. I wonder if that's actually getting past anyone's filters. Certainly didn't make it through mine, but then Gmail is a little more sophisticated than that.

A more puzzling trend: the perfectly ordinary and not at all creatively misspelled (though clearly an advertisement) subject line--with a random string of letters thrown in at the end. D00dz, when they told you at spammer school that misspelling would help you evade those spam traps, I'm pretty sure they meant you should use misspelled words instead of, rather than along with, the correctly spelled ones.

But the best subject line in my latest cruise through the spam folder?

"Turn your meat battleship on!"

Comments

[yami-mcmoots.livejournal.com]

You sunk my meat battleship!

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Well, you know meat is a good source of vitamin B3--especially when served with A1 sauce. I'd better C2 it that I eat more in future.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Enough spam has been getting through filters on my gmail account that I'm getting irritated with it. It all seems to be fake order confirmations, though, and I'd hate to have it get a false positive for something I actually ordered (though i'd be aware of that and looking in the spam folder...)

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Huh. I've never had anything like that get through so far.

[hot-turkey.livejournal.com]

My favorite recent subject line is "heave your sweet couch experience".

I've been getting lots of messages lately that seem to be created by some sort of bot that takes approximate synonyms for "improve" (uplift, hoist, raise, heave) and "sex" ("sweet couch experience", "hot bed adventure", etc.) and combines them in all possible ways, mostly producing howlingly funny, euphemistic, and somewhat surreal lines.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Ah, good old Spam Libs.

[slyviolet.livejournal.com]

A meat battleship would not be structurally sound, ecologically responsible, or particularly functionally feasible. Also, carnivorous marine life.

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

Maybe the meat battleship fights in the blood ocean!

(oh. hmm. that could be euphemistic too.)

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

*snrk*

[slyviolet.livejournal.com]

The blood-dimmed tide, as Yeats put it?

[logovore.livejournal.com]

Win.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm in a position to comment....