Today's addlepated spam
This day, I have received a bunch of spams that are all from a dictionary-chosen firstname and lastname with a randomcharacters@randomdomain.com e-mail address, with the subject “Firstname Lastname wrote:”, and the body
hi Firstname i hope this is your e-mail.
I was glad to see you the other day. I expect you was excited about New York.
So much so much happening all the time, lots of great opportunities.
And speaking of opportunities, the deal I was speaking you about yesterday included a company
known as Tex-Homa (TXHE).
It’s already growing up, but the big announcement isn’t even
out yet, so there’s still time. I have got this shares already and made
2000. I recommend you to do the same today.Hope this helps you out. I’ll see you this weekend.
Yours Firstname Lastname
Note that the spams are all, according to them, sent from someone to themselves. Which would appear to somewhat sabotage their value as “accidental” mails that someone meant to send to someone else. And then there’s the fact that I’ve received six of them, all “from” different people, but otherwise identical.
This sounds like a job for… the Stock Spam Effectiveness Monitor!
(Oh, and it’s good to see that other people have been getting the same steady flow of thesaurusised “Very important note. You have to read.” spams for GDKI.PK that I have.)
I've just noticed that one too. One got through Opera M2's spam squasher, but the rest didn't make it.
Not the most convincing wording. It would be interesting to see if the stock's performance could be used as a measure of how effective the spam's wording is.
Comment by Jaymis — October 18, 2006 @ 8:23 pm
That site is pretty interesting. I always wondered what the fate of these stocks was.
Comment by Nick1911 — October 18, 2006 @ 10:23 pm
I just deleted that same email. Somehow it passed gmails filters, rare.
Comment by com2kid — October 18, 2006 @ 11:39 pm
Apparently the spammers aren't concerned with my sexual prowess, but they're always concerened about my financial state, with all these helpful stock tips! Isn't that nice of them?
Comment by Lord Booga — October 19, 2006 @ 4:49 am
I'm up to 26 of these today. It might make the new record if it keeps up. 34 of the same message in one day is the record so far... go TXHE! You can do it! ;)
Comment by Stark — October 19, 2006 @ 4:58 am