Intelligent spam

July 13th, 2003

One of the aspects of spam that has always mystified me is why it’s generally written in such a semi-literate way, with normal rules of grammar and punctuation suspended in the hope of getting those elusive click-throughs. In fact I’ve occasionally wondered if using the Word grammar checker and bouncing anything that splits its infinitives would be a far more effective way of filtering spam than searching for ‘herbal viagra’ or ‘enlargement pills’.

Then this morning I received this:

From: Helen Adams [helen.adams@ukonline.co.uk]
Sent: 12 July 2003 15:44
To: Friends Group
Subject: FW: Useful information this time of year

Hiya,
With most of you all going on holiday soon, I just thought this website my boyfriend emailed me about would be useful! Looks like you can save loads on international phone calls.
Helen
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3 Responses to “Intelligent spam”

  1. on July 14, 2003 11:18 am

    Just had the same e-mail sent to me. funny that. got hack tracer to look back at them and now all i am doing is playing about with their ip adress. we will see what happens. looking into the legal side of this now anyway. keep you posted.

  2. on July 19, 2003 10:10 pm

    Helen Adams is my missing sister. She dissapeared with two daughters in May last year and no one has heard from her since. We have spoken to authorities who are unable to tell us anything. We, her family are very worried about her and would like to contact her. We received a strange e mail tried to reply but this failed tehn did a search on google which has led us to you. Have you any info on her whereabouts.

    As for being meat, I suppose we all are an not sure of the significance of a round can. Perhaps you can help me?

    Hazel

  3. on August 16, 2003 8:15 am

    Could this be a case of a greek bearing gifts of an equine variety?

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