Are spammers trying to take advantage of the Olympics in their emails?
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 evil underworld version of advertisers. If they can get your attention, then by god, they will! Shy of running decapitation videos, they will stop at …
Swine Flu Everywhere, Even on Your Spam Email
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 who use current events (of which many of them do) are sending out lots of email with something about swine fu in he subject line. …
“Are you turning to Google instead of God” Spam
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 a spam email. It is spam, no reason to open it, go ahead and delete it. It generally just says this: <three separate pics that …
Spammers Don’t Proofread
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 for email spam which says: “It has been a long time since we did not meet!” (this is a link to the twitter search for …
Most popular celebrity “bait” in spam email
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 figures in the top 10 table ranged from those well-known internet favourites Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, to less obviously appealing figures like Hillary Clinton …
Greeting Card Spam
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 know this and are sending out a lot of their own greeting card spam. An easy way to spot greeting card spam is if the …
Email Spam Subject Lines
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 that is too time consuming: How to communicate effectively via email Success is what your wear Global Orgasms for Peace A Pac-Man for your arteries …
Using the President Elect
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 it to their advantage. Of course, if you haven’t heard that Barack Obama is our new president elect, then you might have been living under …
Buried in Spam
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 on Twitter search for “spam subjects” (or click here). Then there is going through my hotmail account and laughing at the stuff that makes it …
Some More Recent Subject Lines
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 some which are pretty obvious, but sometimes they try to put either a very confusing headline or something that sounds newsy. Here you go: Love …
Spam Email Subject Lines
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 requested our vacancy list Make your babymaker hard as rock I have an obscured business transaction for you Cheney visits Afghan President, Shoots Him in …
Paris Hilton, not to be out-done
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, Admits it on Larry King Paris Hiltons vagina begins prison sentence Paris Hilton gives birth to twins… aliens Paris Hilton To Invade Rwanda Sponge Bob …
Threatening emails
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 send later.” This is spam and totally fake (people who don’t have babies have gotten this email). I am in shock that spammers would send …