There are a few times where the spam mail that I get (that manages to get through my spam filters) is actually quite amusing.
3 cheers to hilarious and amusing spam mail!
On another note, do you remember the first few spam mails that you got? Man, the click-through rate of those suckers must have been nuts!
Now, entire industries have been built to “combat” the spam. I mean, it’s crazy; people make their entire living off managing this stupid crap. New technologies have been birthed because of this lamesauce.
Amazing.
Have you received any funny spam recently?
Travis Fish says
I get a bunch of spam comments on my blog that are funny such as:
“It is the amusing answer vaigra com cheaporder online Fresh joke! What do you call it when worms take over the world? Global Worming.” They seem to think I’ll click on their link if they put a funny joke… oh spam
Jared Erickson says
funny I just tweeted about this a second ago.. got this in my mailbox this morning and it made me smile..
http://twitpic.com/16k4wc
kylereed says
Yes, I got this one this morning.
http://view.email.topspin.net/?j=fe5b1573726701787013&m=ff011c70776507&ls=fdf012747064077a76127870&l=fe89157972630d7e77&s=fe201c717366027b711c76&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe3815767164077d741371&r=0
Don’t know how really
Kyle Reed says
Yes, I got this one this morning.
http://view.email.topspin.net/?j=fe5b1573726701787013&m=ff011c70776507&ls=fdf012747064077a76127870&l=fe89157972630d7e77&s=fe201c717366027b711c76&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe3815767164077d741371&r=0
Don’t know how really
Nick Shoemaker says
bit.ly π
Kyle Reed says
To lazy
Eric Frisch says
I got one once that said my ATM machine was ready for pickup… I liked that one…
JayCaruso says
The funniest one I ever got was one of the “enhancement” variations that said, “You know you want a d**k like a pool cue!”
I think I got that like 5 years ago and several co-workers and I still laugh about it.
Josh Miles says
Apparently all of the spammers I have must not like my screen resolution….always wanting to enlarge everything…
Brad Davis Seal says
My favorite spam was where a lady said she wanted to marry me because she had been in love with me for several years. She only referred to my by my last name & misspelled it every time.
joanna says
I keep getting a whole lot of variations of the Nigerian money transfer scam. The fake desperation, insincere
flattery and terrible grammar can be rather entertaining.
For the spammers to be sending all these, they must work at least some of the time. I fear for the future of humanity when there is people stupid enough to respond to offers of drugs from someone in eastern Europe who can’t spell or offers of millions of dollars from someone they’ve never met in Africa. The fact that I have had university students forward me the get a free iPad/iPhone/laptop/$500 giftcard scams on facebook makes me even more disturbed.
Andy Darnell says
Ha. I’ve been working on a post for my day job’s blog about this same thing. My angle came about because of an email that obviously was supposed to be dynamically personalized, however it read “Hi [[RecipientFirstName]]”
Seriously, how rude. If you’re going to spam me, get my name right π
Anyway, I’m going on the attack with this one.
SamMahlstadt says
Lots of spam lately to my church account for viagra and oxycotin.
Also some spam that came about through my careerbuilder.com account – fake jobs and get rich quick schemes. These one’s are irritating. I hate seeing an email about a job and then opening it up to a horrible sales pitch that is somehow supposed to be a job offer. Lame!
StateDOG says
What are your favorite anti-spam methods. I’m currently trying the askimet/badbehavior method.
What else would you recommend?
John Saddington says
akismet
Josh Miles says
askimet for the win, no doubt…
Phillip Gibb says
Random comment to a randomly awesome post π
the only funny thing about the spam I get is that it is 90% to do with Meds. Like Whyyyyyyyy. What do they think? I am like the polar opposite of a Hypochondriac
Josh Miles says
Perhaps it’s age-based. From being 25 to now 29, I’ve gone from spam implying I was a stallion to Viagra ads….not to mention all the ones for joint pain I get now. I’m 29 for crying out loud! π