Post details: Spam so good it has to be blogged

Tue December 12, 2006

Permalink 07:16:27 pm, Categories: Internet & technology, 275 words  

Spam so good it has to be blogged

I've been getting a lot of these lately - pump 'n' dump stock spams with the spam part in a graphic and the rest filled with supposedly non-spam-like text. They're pretty easy to recognize from the header (hmmm, a letter from Elvin Overton titled "Good Morning Elvin") but I clicked on this one anyway and was greatly amused by the text that's supposed to trick the spam filter into thinking it's not spam:

Sometimes a green submarine hides, but a girl scout always sanitizes the paper napkin! Indeed, another fried judge figures out an avocado pit defined by a short order cook. A pig pen starts reminiscing about lost glory, and an obsequious crane takes a coffee break; however, the chestnut living with the tomato makes love to an ostensibly stoic customer.
Sometimes the minivan of a class action suit self-flagellates, but a financial cowboy always graduates from a fruit cake of a ball bearing!
Sometimes the minivan of a class action suit self-flagellates, but a financial cowboy always graduates from a fruit cake of a ball bearing! When a tabloid ruminates, a minivan about the chess board sweeps the floor.
Sometimes the minivan of a class action suit self-flagellates, but a financial cowboy always graduates from a fruit cake of a ball bearing! When a tabloid ruminates, a minivan about the chess board sweeps the floor.
Sometimes the minivan of a class action suit self-flagellates, but a financial cowboy always graduates from a fruit cake of a ball bearing!
When a tabloid ruminates, a minivan about the chess board sweeps the floor.

If spam was always this tasty, I might even read it more often.

Comments, Pingbacks:

Comment from: Brian [Visitor] · http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian
That text puts me in mind of a modern version of The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein. Who knew that our most creative textual experimentalists were toiling in the Dark Satanic Spam Mills?
Permalink 12/13/06 @ 00:07
Comment from: crows [Member] · http://www.crowstoburnaby.com
I think somebody's finally gotten hold of that infinite number of monkeys, and they're just getting started...
Permalink 12/13/06 @ 08:54
Comment from: Dups [Visitor] · http://www.dups.ca
Hee hee, I have to agree about the room full of monkeys. I'm actually starting to enjoy reading spam (not that I want any more of it) but the odd one I catch makes me wonder about where the human race is heading. Maybe the entire planet is actually a room full of monkeys and we just happen to have 1% who aren't insane.

But I must go ruminate in my minivan on green eggs and ham.
Permalink 12/13/06 @ 20:54
Comment from: Herby [Visitor] · http://the-latest-spam.blogspot.com/
Indeed, the monkeys have assembled! So far they've managed to figure out a way to infiltrate most in-boxes with a form(at) of spam that's remarkably difficult to automatically filter - although they're instantly recognisable, of course.

I'm not too sure why but I've also recently decided to collect these literary gems in a blog (the easiest way to publish them at the moment). Maybe they'll come in handy as evidence in my defence when I figure out who these bastard spammers are...
Permalink 01/12/07 @ 04:35
Really sorry, but new comments have been disabled because the spammers have ruined it for everyone. I don't maintain this blog any more and almost all the comments I get are people trying to sneak in links to their products. If you really genuinely have something you need to say to me personally, email me at kirsten --AT-- crowstoburnaby dot com.

crows to burnaby

Kirsten Starcher lives in Vancouver, BC, spending half her time as a musician, playing bass in ARCTIC as well as solo, and the other half as a web designer/developer.
You can contact her at "kirsten at crowstoburnaby dot com" (turn it into a proper email address, of course!).

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