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Are spammers trying to take advantage of the Olympics in their emails?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Effects Across Industries, Spam Messages, Subject Lines on February 25, 2010February 29, 2016

The better question is do Spammers try to take advantage of anything that captivates the American attention? The obvious answer: YES!!! Get the idea that these guys are like the […]

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Swine Flu Everywhere, Even on Your Spam Email

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Spam Messages, Subject Lines on April 30, 2009February 29, 2016

News about the swine flu is definitely everywhere.  Can’t turn on the TV or read your news feed without seeing something about it. Of course, this means all those spammers […]

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“Are you turning to Google instead of God” Spam

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Spam Messages, Subject Lines on March 31, 2009February 29, 2016

Been seeing a lot of complaints about this one, well not really complaints, more like amusement. Just another example of trying to use buzz words to get you to open […]

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Spammers Don’t Proofread

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Spam Messages, Subject Lines on February 25, 2009February 29, 2016

It is true, those who send out spam do NOT proofread their messages (of course no one really thought they did, right?). I have seen a lot of twitter mentions […]

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Most popular celebrity “bait” in spam email

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Email Studies, Subject Lines on December 22, 2008February 29, 2016

That honor goes to Angelina Jolie who is the most popular celebrity name used by spammers to tempt people into opening unsolicited email, according to new research. The other famous […]

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Greeting Card Spam

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Subject Lines on December 15, 2008February 29, 2016

With the large number of people saving trees and sending out electronic holiday cards rather than paper ones there is a lot of greeting cards flying through cyberspace. The spammers […]

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Email Spam Subject Lines

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Subject Lines on December 4, 2008February 29, 20161 Comment

Been awhile since I did a collection of email spam subject lines. I just put up the ones from very recently, might have fun to do a huge one, but […]

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Using the President Elect

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Subject Lines on November 6, 2008February 29, 2016

Well, the spammers are definitely up on their news. They do seem to do a pretty good job of keeping track of what is talked about and trying to use […]

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Buried in Spam

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Effects Across Industries, Subject Lines on October 28, 2008February 29, 2016

Warning: This is a little bit of a rant, sorry. It is great fun to watch the spam subject lines that people talk about on twitter. Just do a search […]

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Some More Recent Subject Lines

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Subject Lines on October 15, 2008February 29, 2016

Thought I would put up a few sample spam subject lines. I hope this makes it easier for you to spot and delete the spam without opening it. There are […]

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Spam Email Subject Lines

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Subject Lines on September 4, 2008February 29, 2016

My favorite is the first one “maybe even you” is a cute touch as to why you are getting spam: Someone from your email address, maybe even you, had recently […]

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Paris Hilton, not to be out-done

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Subject Lines on August 29, 2008February 29, 2016

Not to be out-done here is a small collection of the Paris Hilton email spam subject lines: Paris Hilton Wins Pulitzer Prize Paris Hilton Sells Her Soul to the Devil, […]

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Threatening emails

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Family, Spam Messages, Subject Lines on August 27, 2008February 29, 2016

I have seen several complaints of an email with the subject line: “Hey we have hijacked your baby but you must pay once to us $50000. The details we will […]

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