Category Archives: spam

spam dialect

Posted on Wednesday, 2009 May 13 by Anton

Who writes this stuff? A venerable insurance company within the underlying market of operation, is proud to announce yet another feasible entry for uprising accounting adepts. Comfort working environment will most definitely justify the necessity to excel in the vast … Continue reading →

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a curious concentration

Posted on Tuesday, 2008 January 15 by Anton

All of the Cyrillic spam I see has Moscow phone numbers (495). How come no one in the rest of the Slavic Orthodox world is getting in on the game? Next day: What d’ya know: I got one with (3435), … Continue reading →

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in odd places

Posted on Thursday, 2007 December 27 by Anton

Sometimes the filler in spam is meaningful: Developed in the 19th century through the study of the Indo-European languages, the comparative method remains the standard by which mainstream linguists judge whether two languages are related, with alternative lexicostatistical methods widely … Continue reading →

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the cake is taken

Posted on Wednesday, 2007 November 07 by Anton

I don’t suppose this is really a novelty, but it hasn’t happened to me before . . at least not recently: I got a penis spam addressed to newyorkgirl711@pobox.com. Come to think of it, there used to be breast-enhancing spams too, … Continue reading →

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possibly not what was intended

Posted on Wednesday, 2007 September 19 by Anton

Got a penispam today saying: Yo yo yo bronto get rid of that self-esteem once and for all. I don’t think I’m seriously afflicted with self-esteem, but you never know.

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spam trends

Posted on Wednesday, 2007 August 29 by Anton

For a while there, nearly all the comments submitted to this blog linked to files in an obscure directory on a minor university’s server, which in turn redirected to a porn site. After I reported it to the webmasters of … Continue reading →