They’re on a Roll
Thursday, April 10th, 2003Ok, to show you what I was talking about a few entries ago, I took a screenshot of my Yahoo! Mail inbox:
‘Nuff said.
And I promise that’s the last on the subject. =)
Posts Tagged ‘spam’
Out Darn Spam, Out!
Monday, April 7th, 2003Once in a while I have this curious urge to check what Mail has dumped in the Junk mailbox. Well, the other day I received spam touting, get this, anti-spam software. Aaarrgghh!!!
Perverted Names
Thursday, April 3rd, 2003I noticed that people are coming to my site from doing searches on “perverted names.” Strange thing is I come in first in Google results. People are probably disappointed that I’m merely referring to the names of some spam senders that come into my Yahoo inbox. Ok, recently I found more of these convoluted names:
Gaeddert Dunphy
Shane Arunachalam
Altew Haveman
Litteer Cottle
Eh? It seems now that these spammers are taking the most uncommon surnames, throwing them into a database and spitting them out as first name/last name pairs to be used as senders’ names. Whatever…
Spam at Yahoo! Mail
Thursday, January 30th, 2003I hardly use my Yahoo! e-mail account. It’s really only there to be used as a legit addy to give away when having to register something at any given website.
Lately, the only reason I find myself visiting my Yahoo! web mail account is having to do the arduous task of weeding out spam from my inbox. Yes, I have SpamGuard on but it doesn’t work too well. One thing I’ve noticed about some of the unwanted e-mail that manage to slip through are the senders’ names, e.g.:
Stachurski Saltz
Purkett Challa
Smack Crognale
Now I doubt these are real people’s names. There’s something vaguely ethnic about them. Are spammers now embracing multiculturalism as part of their aggressive marketing campaigns? Nah. No clever script can put together wonderfully perverted names such as these. I’d rather think that these are conjured up in some rogue marketer’s seedy home office somewhere out there. What else would he do all day?