Sometimes, on a slow day, I look at the spam that I get. Most of it is boring… the same-old same-old. “Best repl1ca w4tches!”, “cheap oem soft shipping //orldwide”, “Viagre Ciali Xanas Valiun have special discount, express ship to all countries”, “Don’t be the ‘little guy’ in the club”. Various phishing messages that wouldn’t fool a village idiot, with subject lines like “necessary to be read!” or “National City corporate customer cervice: your account with us!”. (Yes, it actually said “cervice”.) The only amusing thing about them is the tortured attempts at English.

Only occasionally do I get an accidentally amusing one, like the couple-dozen “CanadianPharmacy” ones, all with different dot-hk URLs (since when is Canada in Hong Kong?). Or the random-word subject lines will spell out something semi-amusing (“Go minonk a declo”? I don’t minonk very well, but I’m sure the declo would love it). It’s more amusing when GoddessJ gets a message asking her “Do you feel insecure about your penis size?” I guarantee she doesn’t, guys.

But I received one, a few days ago, that I couldn’t place. The subject line was “i very want to find my love”, addressed to one of my spam-traps, and the text (in only slightly-broken English) was a plea from “a beautiful woman” who just wanted to meet me. I didn’t buy it (I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night), but I was curious why they were sending out spam. After taking various precautions, I visited the URL.

Nothing interesting there, I’m afraid. Just the usual spam-address-gathering system, on a page designed to get people to join a dating service and/or give their credit card numbers to a scammer. What I found highly amusing, and what prompted this entry, is that I glanced at the page source looking for malware scripts, and found what looked like a javascript page-view counter… which used Math.random(). They don’t have a lot of faith in their spam, do they?