Entertain Me, Oh Creative Spammer!   4/15/2004 - 1,114 views,

Summary: Anyone else seen this? Spam in the past 24 hours, almost certainly all coming from the same source, with, I have to admit it, creative 'sender' names. Names like: Amateurism B. Sophocles Unmindful J. Mejia And my favourite: Visualizing I. Nappies (eeeewww!) Now if only they made ...

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Anyone else seen this? Spam in the past 24 hours, almost certainly all coming from the same source, with, I have to admit it, creative ’sender’ names.

Names like:
Amateurism B. Sophocles
Unmindful J. Mejia

And my favourite:
Visualizing I. Nappies (eeeewww!)

Now if only they made the middle initial play on the rest of cute name, it would almost be worth watching for the spam - even more so if the cute ‘from’ name played into the subject line and the product being hawked. Got that spammers? Take a hint - make your header grab our hearts, and our ‘forward’ keys may not follow! Entertain us!

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