Your favorite spam subject line...

[bookeddy]

Spam is infuriating and we can all complain forever, but there is something really strange about it when you think that it must work at least a little or why else would it continue?

Anyway I was scanning the bulk folder of a stale yahoo account when a curious trend caught my eye. These are all subject lines:

overhaul chowder
peripheral barbarism
pittance speculation
platter counterfeiter
vein merger
promontory turn signal

ok, I was curious. It seemed like some kinda two/three wheeled dictionary slot machine, so I opened a couple up and found that they were some bastardized form of a penny stock scam.

BUT..., anyway it made me feel like starting a thread that might be fun.

What's you "favorite" spam subject line?

A subgroup could be... How MANY different ways can one spell penis?

[Scott]

the nigerian fax scams are my favorite

[Randall]

Man, I wrote a few of these down once. No idea where I put that list. Seems like I had an odd one a year or two ago that mentioned both peanuts and fish.

[gypsy]

i'm pretty sure i've posted this before. i don't remember the full line but it was something promising bestiality porn. the kicker, which i do remember, was, "now with mongoose fucking!"

i was tempted.

[Culex pipiens]

Could you forward that to C.pipiens@mosquito.org? When you're this small and can fly, you see humans doing crazy shit, but mongoose fucking is not something I've encountered.

Thanks

[James]

Just pulled these from my yahoo bulk mail folder:

countable pigeon
dada message from Maude Hardin
Toons not for kids
off turpentine

[Randall]

Okay ... here's the one I wrote down a long time ago:

"tuna viewport"

[Ian]

"My donkey never says no!"

(which isn't as interesting as a donkey that frequently says no, because it'd be, like, holy shit, there's a talking donkey)

And the full text of the spam:

CIA Interrogation Techniques Revealed !!!
Iraq must be Punished
Al Qaeda start talking

Animal Anal Punishment

Dino
Stop It

Who's Next

CIA Dog Training

Removal Instructions
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If you would like to be removed from future mailings please click here.

[metulj]

i'm pretty sure i've posted this before. i don't remember the full line but it was something promising bestiality porn. the kicker, which i do remember, was, "now with mongoose fucking!"

i was tempted.

Now, if that mongoose was nine feet long, we'd have something.

[skirob]

Just a few interesting ones from today:

-SiIvia Iikes shhoooting Waldo deposit
-She wants a better sex? All you need's here!
-habanos cubanos recien llegados
-Don't be left behing- the enlargement revolution!
-CHEEAP WAY TO BIGGER UR SHORT & THIN D11CK development

[jah]

I think the really funny spam is blog spam, but all of it I've gotten this week has been boring so I can't think of anything really good.

[shady lane]

i've never had one threaten me before (well, ok, only indirectly via the shame of having an inadequate penis), but the day has come:

Information or YOUR LETTER

[Daizy]

CIA Interrogation Techniques Revealed !!!
Iraq must be Punished
Al Qaeda start talking

Ah ha. You must've sent in the free catalog card from your Homeland Security kit.

[earlnemo]

Ah ha. You must of sent in the free catalog card from your Homeland Security kit.

So what was skirob shopping for that got him these?


-SiIvia Iikes shhoooting Waldo deposit
-She wants a better sex? All you need's here!
-habanos cubanos recien llegados
-Don't be left behing- the enlargement revolution!
-CHEEAP WAY TO BIGGER UR SHORT & THIN D11CK development

[spinetingler]

A few I've collected recently.
I was planning to use these for song titles.

Hi, mustache cup
disrepair squad
indulgence trenchant
implicit bubble gum
muck astronaut
loud fluidity
pinpoint intimidation
tearing apart furniture
owl swallow
liquor deterrent
bluebird downgrade
repressive piercing
Order status, monkey-ball
mock-beggar
puppet dangerous
Hi, olive gnat
capitalist idiom
gregarious inconsolable
Your money, naked-eye
sleepyhead fighter
clump dilation
Life is a bitch, then you marry one
aftermath son
something for somebody
rasp cauliflower
countersign prehistoric
Digression sympathizer
World wide web remote control
Hoodia will change your life
off-the-record condemnation
speedway handwritten
Great Britain muffler
bestseller milkman
fury overrated
petrograph trainban
cabbage first-class
chocolate ackerman filament cutover
nurse quizzical
likeness knickers
buns presentable
sprout rebuke
stench fascinate
phonoscop instructres
RECIPES SCAMS
raven cameraman
classically ensure
Dead Saddams
lecture shutdown
Non-norse
denote scarves
hemorrhoids explicable
barrier license
ideological nominal
test pod
inhalation inherent
bundle flotilla
leapfrog disconcerting
perspective intestine trillionth ashman avenue
Your future, Ozark state
fiddle scorpio
test maw
Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation
maximum clocked
reunion fumigation
fiberglass nozzle
protection spoon-feed
domesticated warhead
masochist ink
Get a diploma
roughshod curriculum
hush drag race
shrinkage considerate
Medicaid quadrilateral
tugboat outdated
dishonorably well-rounded
hankie shirk
Presbyterian elitist
echo firmly
my last name
intolerable sobriety
lose condone
You need to review this
noticeably enigmatic
capitol fictional
Open something new for your self
rest home auxiliary
hibernate mildness
where bills scare
homeless apartheid
web-footed
impassable lucrative
Cutting edge
What to look for when purchasing a replica watch
Soapy hurry
Daydreamer burning
Gripe fudge
Accusation axle
Much bigger
Basket case
Traumatic nibble
wagon dream
copper tonic water
we bring joy in your family
knockdown dragout crock
Lively Benefits of Creativity
wishing a new home?
shoo somehow
we can help
Where there is love, there is pain
pull pose
carpentry potassium
really works commercial motor
booby trap adequacy
Mr. sport
righteousness redden
upheaval bark
thesis jiffy
dusk maple
potato chip
cheapness palette
advertising retrace
ream aspiration
nobility hierarchical
volunteer undergrad
solder attached
nuts deplore
nastily tirade
facsimile concealment
panhandler sabotage
gonorrhea dyed-in-the-wool
sponge cake incantation
jackhammer notch
sublet lifelong
immobility lunch
quantify failure
Good Friday tape measure
Your future, parcel delivery
entail night school
stride mockingbird

[Georgia]

Just in:


your cash, nut brown



Hmm. wonder if it's a squirrel reference.

[tardisrider]

It's even better when it sounds like Stephen Hawking is reading it to you.

www.spamradio.com

[Michael]

The reason, for anyone interested, that you get these wacky headers is because it makes it difficult for any "learning" spam filter (i.e. bayesian, etc.) to figure out which phrases, words, etc. in headers indicate spam, thus forcing filters to loosen or risk losing legit emails.

The pro spam companies have also recently started sending out literal junk mail -- headers and contents that have no rhyme or reason -- for the same reason. Filters can't distinguish nonsense from meaningful content, even in the body of the message, again forcing the filters to either clamp down so tightly that legit mail doesn't get through, or loosen up enough so that the spam does.
~m.

[Serge A. Storms]

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