Category Archives: spam

I nearly received (but for the grace of Pobox filters, which are very good) a spam entitled more pleasure for you and her erasmus stairwell. Is that what the kids call it these days?

Pobox’s spam filter bounced something purporting to be from Arturo Fuente <yoichi@t-online.de> – someone with a Spanish name and a Japanese handle, posting from Germany? Not impossible, of course. (Russell advises me that Arturo Fuente is a brand of cigar. … Continue reading →

There is a website for strange search-strings that turn up in your referral logs, but is there one for funny randomly-generated spam titles? Today’s Ogre prize goes to gretchen sovkhoz wesleyan.

I’ve had quite enough bogus PayPal verification notices, thank you, you can stop now.

It took less than three days for spammers to find a temporary address that I posted on an unimportant website.