Unwanted political spam texts
Daring Fireball has a suggestion about how to stop them.
Phish identification
Adam Engst’s “An Annotated Field Guide to Identifying Phish.” Worth reading carefully — just as with sketchy e-mails.
I get pitches
“Hello! Great to MEAT you!” It’s all about meat and health and positive emotions.
Lighting and me
I finally realized why I get so much spam mail about lighting fixtures.
Sincerity
When it comes to spam comments, one might think of sincerity as the test of a writer’s technique. Sincerity is crucial. Once you can fake that, &c., as the saying goes.
Go phish
A spam comment, times ten.
Scams
Art and dog-walking.
Here’s a reason to look at the Spam folder
“A correct pronunciation in English is midway been to Increase Your Success !!!”
Remembrance of spam past
Thaddeus G. Blankenship and other spam names.
iOS to the rescue
“Since I have practically no knowledge of Nuclear Physics I resorted to iOS auto-complete function to help me writing the paper.”
New directions in spam
A scam that warns of a scam.
Three B s
A great name appeared in my spam folder this afternoon: Mr. Berenguer Bolivar Basilio.
New directions in spam comments
“Many an afternoon has been enjoyed by a family, bonding over the discussion of Personal Injury Attorney in Atlanta.”
Sigh
It must be the hopeless romantic in me. But I like getting spam from Brazil.
Ballad of the spam mail
Langston Hughes’s “Ballad of the Landlord” and spam eviction notices.
“[I]t made me to weep with delight”
I cannot claim to jump for joy (or leap over contentment), but I do I take perverse pleasure in reading such stuff before deleting. O brave new world, that has such spammers in it.
Cool, awesome, and so on
More depressing than getting these spam comments: being the one who sends them.
To the next!
From the spam folder: aberrant expressions of gratitude.
A perfect way of writing
The place elѕe may just anybоdy get that type of information in such a perfect way of writing?
Spam, glorious spam
Their assessments and papers are NO easy task, so for those who say online schools are "dummed down" are highly mistaken. [Sic.]
Fake speeding ticket
A new direction in spam.
"Order updated"
Customer service!
From the spam folder
"Drive and talk with no hands."
Plagiarized comment-spam
An improbable spamming method: cutting and pasting blog content as a comment
Spam names
Fish, Herring, Mayo, and Ham
Great names in spam
Ten improbable names
Spam names
CNN reports that "as many as 9 out of [ sic ] 10 e-mails" are now spam. My academic e-mail address ("harvested," like a still-useful organ, ...
Introducing Rickey Antipasto
One name in the spam mail
Achilles and stochastic
Excerpt from spam with that subject name
The poetry of spam
In my mailbox this evening, there was a plea for URGENT ATTENTION from one Gregorio Singleton. A name like that and he needs attention? His ...