Friday, May 18, 2007

Spam gets better all the time

Lately I've been getting some spam that's more interesting than my legitimate email. A lot of it is the same old porn site myspace profiles, but a lot of it is just some computer-generated text that doesn't link to anything and doesn't seem to be advertising anything. Maybe somebody is generating spam as an artform?
Hey I've been reading about you for a while and kinda have a crush lol. I wrote you a long message but it was too big for my space so i put it in my profile... (emphasis mine)
At first that reads like a normal message from a bogus profile, until you notice that it's the spam equivalent of Fermat's Last Theorem.

Here's an email I haven't been able to bring myself to delete, or even mark as spam:
From: Raven KUVAEV
Subject: The catapults' stones fell among them--and exploded in fire and shards, ripping open holes in the mass.
Body: Thou'lt not believe With how deprav'd a quality- O Regan.
Beautiful.

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