Friday, August 04, 2006
Spam, Spam, Spam again
Have you noticed lately that the spammers seem to be trying a new approach for spam? Where it used to be just bunches of different spams, now it's bunches of the same spam. The titles are still misspelled, the grammar attrocious and the subjects just plain stupid, but now they repeat themselves. Not only over a couple of day time period, but at the same time. It's now a regular occurrence for me to get 5 - 8 or more emails with the exact same title - or sometimes the exact same title with a 5 random character prefix attached.
Do these people really think it's more likely for me to peek at and answer one of six identical spams than I would at one? And this all boils down to those stupid one in ten-thousand people who replay to this crap. Get some sense people! No one is going to give you a free Rolex or Louis Vuitton purse and if you're lucky that V1agra or Hood1a you buy either won't be delivered or will be a safe fake and do nothing. If you're not lucky it'll probably kill you or make you sick - which would be a plus for me, since there'd be one less Darwin-challenged idiot to answer spam and make it worth spammers effort.
