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 Wednesday, November 30, 2005
World's dumbest spammer

You make the call on this one... cut & pasted directly out of the email (after the horizonal rule):


Subject: Better degree-better pay!

You have 2 options here,

Option 1 - You can put ANY text you want in here.

Option 2 - We will fill it in with the text only portion of the

html message if you put the macro UNIVERSITY DIPLOMAS

 

OBTAIN A PROSPEROUS FUTURE, MONEY-EARNING POWER, AND THE PRESTIGE THAT COMES WITH HAVING THE CAREER POSITION YOU'VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF. DIPLOMAS FROM PRESTIGIOUS NON-ACCREDITED UNIVERSITIES BASED ON YOUR PRESENT KNOWLEDGE AND LIFE EXPERIENCE

 

If you qualify, no required tests, classes, books or examinations.

 

Bachelors', Masters', MBA's, Doctorate & Ph.D. degrees available in your field.

 

CONFIDENTIALITY ASSURED

CALL NOW TO RECEIVE YOUR DIPLOMA WITHIN 2 WEEKS

1-206-279-9144

CALL 24HRS, 7 DAYS A WEEK, INCLUDING SUNDAYS & HOLIDAYS

in here.

NOTE: Some email clients don't disply html data. In that case what you

put here will be seen by the recipient. If the email client does

display html data then this will NOT be seen by the recipient.

Based on this you may wish to put a text version of your add here;

however, you can also put some macros here to make the message

more random.




Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:02:26 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
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"Must read" (Dax Pandhi's Digital Exile) [Trackback]
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:08:05 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Do you actually "read" the SPAM you receive? I could never catch something like that, thaks to Bayesian filters...
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 6:20:48 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Reading SPAM is often very interesting, personally I read most that gets through my filters. The emails from banks are particularly good as they often tell you explicitly not to do what they're asking you to do after a link (e.g. fill in passwords etc.)

S.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:45:39 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Well, I've seen dumber ones so this one certainly doesn't have a lock on the title. I'm always amazed that they pick MY email to run the first test ;-)

-Rob
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