If your message starts out with "I am a sweet and attractive young woman ...", it might behoove you to consult a dictionary of American baby names to find a name that would match that description. I'm afraid that signing the message "Ross Gordon" isn't going to cut it.
-- Badtux the Laughing Penguin
Hopefully temporarily, but got tired of deleting nonsense after the fact. The upside is that anonymous comments are enabled for those who don't feel like logging in.
-- Badtux the Spammed Penguin
Latest scumbags to abuse the do-not-call list to call people on the do-not-call list are some New York scam artists who claim to be able to get you out of IRS problems (which, BTW, I do *not* have). Numbers they call from according to caller ID include 917-398-9525 and 917-398-5683, and caller ID says this is NY, USA.
If there was any justice these people would be behind bars for stealing from me by calling my cell phone (which costs *me* money)....
-- Badtux the Spammer-despising Penguin
Woman says cat saved her from fire
Wow, that's some smart cat, you say to yourself when you see that email in your inbox. Alas, when you click it open, all you see is a typical male penile enhancement advertisement.
-- Badtux the Spammed Penguin
President Bush announces state of emergency.
You must admit that this subject line gets you opening up that spam message lickity split to find... uhm, another ad for a male penile enhancer. The whole point of these bogus headlines is to get you to open up the message. This one probably succeeds better than most at doing so.
-- Badtux the Spammed Penguin
Clinically dead woman comes to life.
The spammer in this case obviously wants us to open his spam out of curiousity -- what made this woman come back to life? Alas, we'll never know, because the spam itself only advertises male potency drugs as usual...
-- Badtux the Spammed Penguin
Schwarzenegger gunning for Presidency 2012
Nevermind that the Governator is now about as popular as burned toast in California (which is roughly what he did to the state budget) and is not eligible under the Constitution of the United States to run for President anyhow, the spammers are betting that you'll open this email just because you're outraged, and then instead get dumped into their pitch for "herbal viagra". This is indeed a clever spam Subject: line.
-- Badtux the Spammed Penguin
14-Year-Olds Can't Marry In Kansas Anymore
Because we always suspected that Kansas was so backwards and inbred that 14 year old kids were marrying... so the creative spammers making up these bogus headlines gave us one plausible enough to open up the email to see their spam.
-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
PS - yeah, it was a Viagra spam :-).
President Bush's iPod: The Complete Playlist
That one is probably pretty short, given that I doubt President Bush can figure out how to operate an iPod. The spammers need to use more plausible subject lines, methinks.
-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
Senator John Mccain Wishes To Have Sex With Model Heidi Klum
And I wish I had a million dollars, heh!
I swear, these spammers must have the secret headline generator used by The Onion hard at work for them...
-- Badtux the Spammed Penguin
