“Need drug to bad deal must have suppository?”
Some of the spam messages that I get have completely (and unintentionally) hilarious subject lines, like the above. It almost makes sense.
Search results for spam
“Hot rice, just add cold water”
One of those little technologies (mentioned in SF novels in passing) that has always fascinated me is self-cooking foods, or food packaging that automatically cooks the food it contains when it’s opened. That’s why I was delighted to see this story on Boing Boing just now. Geek heaven! Now, if they can just do the …
Skype “Spim” Entry Most Popular
Apparently I hit a chord with my Skype Spim entry. It has had more hits than any other entry, most of them from Google searches. I tried entering one of the searches into Google myself, and sure enough, that blog entry was the first hit on the list. Apparently there were only two pages that …
Skype Spim Continues?!
As mentioned in this post, I’ve been getting “spimmed” (instant-message spam) via Skype from a particular English-challenged person. I had switched my copy of Skype to known-contacts-only mode and thought nothing more of it. Until last night, when I received a fourth copy of it. How it got through my privacy settings, I have no …
Amusing Skype “Spim”
I’d first heard about “spim” (spamming over instant message networks) nearly a year ago, if my hazy recollection is correct, but actual examples of it seemed to be pretty thin on the ground. Last week I actually got one, and the English is so bad that it’s hilarious:
Identity Theft Prevention and Attorney’s Advice
My favorite aunt sent me this e-mail a few weeks ago. I’ve been trying to think where I could put it that I’d be sure I could find it again whenever anyone needed it, and this seems to be the perfect place. I’ve cleaned up the text, but made no other changes to it.