Category Archives: spam

Got a spam today with the intriguing title “Look, I’m totally into you, I totally want you, but we have dinner plans.”

Today’s prize for chutzpah in spam goes to Technomages [what would JMS say?], whose ad ends with “Click Here to not receive future mailings of this offer”. If you click, you won’t see this ‘offer’ again, but you’ll get a … Continue reading →

Got a spam today that may have been designed purely to annoy me. The title is “hi, I fixed the problem . . .” and the entire content is <img src=”http://www.1stchannel.com/images/pixel.gif?track=1&entry=[myaddress]” border=”0″> Had I opened this with image-loading enabled, it would look blank … Continue reading →

(I received about three versions of this warning today. This one came first, from Harvey Newstrom of Extropy Institute, and is the most detailed.) Yahoo has added a new section to your “Account Info” that requests spammers to send you … Continue reading →

I just got a spam with this tag: . . . This message is sent in compliance of the new email Bill HR 1910. Under Bill HR 1910 passed by the 106th US Congress on May 24, 1999, this message cannot be … Continue reading →

Today some clown invited me to “Save over 300% on MEDICATION!” Sadly, the spam contained no valid address from which I might learn more about this offer to pay me $2 when I order $1 worth of Viagra.