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Lame Spam of the Day: Please stop sending spam messages onto our email

Robert Weiner

Subject: Please stop sending spam messages onto our email. Sender: CorpTech (contact@corptech.com). Your email is sending spam messages! If you don't stop sending spam, we will be impelled to sue you! Please carefully read through the document and stop sending spam messages. Here's info on rar attachments: [link].

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Lame spam of the day: HELLO

Robert Weiner

So much lame spam, so little time to blog about it. Text: BUSINESS FOR YOU, CONTACT ME THROUGH MY PRIVATE EMAIL: sydneywalter58@yahoo.com. Here's today's example. No graphics, all caps, the From address doesn't match the "write me at" address. Does it get any lamer? Sender: Tesfaye, Fanuel (f.tesfaye@unesco.org). Subject: HELLO.

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Lame spams of the day: Proposal Attached

Robert Weiner

A bunch of these have accumulated in my spam folder. I am contacting you regarding promotional items for your company. No logo, no formatting, no attempt to look like they come from a business I'd be familiar with. They look like they actually came from gmx.com so maybe they're merely annoying rather than malicious.

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Lame spam roundup

Robert Weiner

Here's a random selection of strange and/or lame spams I've received recently. This one may not be spam, but I'm not going to click and find out. Contact Person : Mr.Han Liang - Mobile phone : 0086-(0)13063813025. Yes, the hyperlink was the first line of the spam, and points where it says it does. Date : Attending Oct.

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Lame spams of the day: assorted LinkedIn ploys

Robert Weiner

Lots of spam is coming from fake LinkedIn accounts these days. If you're having difficulty redeeming a coupon code, please contact the seller first to see if they have discontinued use of that code in their shop. Instantly contact your bank. Most of it is more scary than lame -- it uses the right logo, colors, and fonts.

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Lame spam of the day: Meeting invitation from George Adoo

Robert Weiner

This spam arrived in the form of a meeting invitation. My Outlook spam filter (SpamBayes) doesn''t seem to look at meeting invitations, and it also slipped past the SpamAssassin filter on my mail server. Scam Spam' I''m not sure if this one is lame (the subject, text, and double salutation are certainly lame) or clever.

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. I recognize so many snippets that have appeared in my spam folder over the years. { {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. Greetings! .|

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