And she should know, right?
The single most popular subject line in this weekend’s email has been “Grow your manhood with Free trial.”
Of late, most of this particular variety of spam seems to contain the following email-address pattern: plausible word + two random letters at otherwise-legitimate domain. This particular sample pretended to be from zooRt@wikimedia.org. The body of the message is amazingly cluttered up with extraneous Microsoft Word markup, though I didn’t notice this until I started peering under the hood; as a rule, I insist that my mail client not display HTML mail, which is an abomination unto the Lord and an invitation for phishers.
Semi-amusingly, the sender’s name was given as “Michelle Wang.” Purely accidental, I’m sure.
fillyjonk »
10 January 2010 · 12:04 pm
Lately, I’ve gotten TONS of emails claiming to be a “delivery failed, returned to sender.” Not sure if it’s spam, someone attempting to verify a live address, or that my address has become zombiefied and is sending mail out to others, because I’ve been deleting them unread.
Almost makes me long for the days when I received spam with, um, interesting, subject lines.
CGHill »
10 January 2010 · 12:40 pm
At least two of my addresses are victims of zombification.
Very few actual emails to people you want to receive them are ever returned; occasionally someone will have a full mailbox, but this is exceedingly rare.
Dick Stanley »
11 January 2010 · 9:39 am
Michele Wang? Highly implausible. Unless it’s of the boy-named-sue variety.