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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
In an interesting bit of synchronicity, I got one of those emails that Kapil was talking about - no spam content, just... stuff. This one, however, seems to have hit it's mark (Mike Orr would be choking from laughter by now.) The subject, in Russian, means "ALL for the purchase of penguins" - and the content is just "penguin".
Silly spammers... why would we want to buy one after they've already sent us a perfectly good one???
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:23:07 +0200 From: Emmie Warner <xxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> To: mirrors@linuxgazette.net Subject: [SPAM] VSE na pokupku pingvinovpingvin
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Kapil Hari Paranjape [kapil at imsc.res.in]
Hello,
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Ben Okopnik wrote:
> In an interesting bit of synchronicity, I got one of those emails that > Kapil was talking about - no spam content, just... stuff. This one, > however, seems to have hit it's mark (Mike Orr would be choking from > laughter by now.) The subject, in Russian, means "ALL for the purchase > of penguins" - and the content is just "penguin". > > Silly spammers... why would we want to buy one after they've already > sent us a perfectly good one???
This is uncanny. You mean spammers know that Ben likes penguins?
Of course, I really suspect that this is more like astrology---we are hearing from the one case when the match occurred and not from the n-1 cases where it did not.
Jimmy ORegan [joregan at gmail.com]
On 16/03/07, Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> In an interesting bit of synchronicity, I got one of those emails that > Kapil was talking about - no spam content, just... stuff.
Not quite as topical as yours, but I found this amusing...
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Subject: anti-spammers are lamers Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:24:59 +0700 From: Emilia Ashley <militancy'sunfeasible@punkass.com> To: jimstapleton@o2.ie
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regards, spammer.