Land of Oz

spam - revisited

I've been getting my usual several hundred spams a day across various accounts. Some of the stuff I wonder about is why some email accounts I have get hundreds of spams a day and others get 1 or 2 a month. I have one rather odd domain that I don't use at all that gets several hundred spams a day. That account deletes them at once.

Another thing I wonder about is why some spammers don't even take the effort to correctly configure their spam machines. I get many emails with something like $NAME or $$MAIL_ADDRESS in the subject which obviously is a missnamed variable.

And then there's the ones that are spelled with all the correctness of a high school shop class dropout. I'm guessing a lot of the misspellings are an effort to circumvent the spam filters, but I think those kinds of things play right into a filter. Not to mention the numbers as letters versions, as in s33 the m4n 1n th3 m00n. I am somewhat intrigued by a batch this month that have a subject similar to You're pretty stupid . At least they're a bit more honest than most.

Please people, quit responding to these idiots. If people would just quit sending in money to Indian drug stores, Nigerian banks and Hong Kong software stores, they'd eventually quit sending out the email.

Labels: computers, gripes, scams