I received this piece of spam today:
Hey bro, nice talking to you the other day.
Thought you would want to check this out, I got some for myself cause they were on sale, you should check out the site, I added the link below.
Steel Package: 10 Patches reg $79.95 Now $49.95! Free shipping too!
Silver Package: 25 Patches reg $129.95, Now $99.95! Free shipping and free exercise manual included!
Gold Package: 40 Patches reg $189.95, Now $149.95! Free shipping and free exercise manual included!
Platinum Package: 65 Patches reg $259.95, Now $199.95! Free shipping and free exercise manual included! (Best Value!)
I know like 10 guys who have already stocked up on these.
Here’s the link to check out bro!
Talk to you soon!
The New York Times has a story about the most successful types of spam (use bugmenot). This places sex spam as the most successful, pharmacy spam in a distant second, followed by Rolex watches. I wonder where “vague health related things” fell on that list.
The must have paid extra for that information since I cannot find it free on the CipherTrust site, however there are some interesting phishing stats and zombie stats at their site. China is incredibly high up on those stats, I wonder if it is from the effects of rampant software piracy.
Bob, we’ve been noticing a lot of the same thing. I did a post on it back in June, http://tonydye.typepad.com/main/2006/06/changing_spam_c.html, and have been agressively shoving rules into our Barracuda to try to stay ahead (I don’t think I’m winning). The spammers seem to have gotten a lot smarter lately, unfortunately for all of us.
- Tony
I have often wondered why spammers write the way they do.
Why have all the exagerated text? If people are looking at the email then you already have their attention.
Emails like the one I used on the post for July 10 here would carry the needed advertising information and get through content based filters. Perhaps they are done so badly because the people who commission them are not very subtle people to begin with.