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August 14, 2006
Spam Libs
Today, I realized how spammers write those weird emails… Spam Libs. Like the classic Mad Libs but for spammers.
Mad Libs consist of a book that has a short story on each page, but with many of the key words are replaced with blanks using different parts of speech such as a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb, and other terms like a place or a part of the body.
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It occured to me when I was over at Tetherd Cow Ahead today reading about Spam Observations #27.
Now this is obviously someone who has not learned their English as a first language, but this begs the question, where exactly have these annoying pests learned to write like this?
I usually just delete spam without opening them but the ones I have opened usually have some picture which is the actual spam and the text is just filler to entice you to open the email.
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Spam Libs…
I finally realized how spammers write those emails….
Ok, I had to wait all day to comment, cuz usually I have weirdo spam, but I didn’t this morning! I purposely looked in my Junk e-mail folder. Here are a couple of jems: “shinebone They’re nice innocent” “accelerate where are you? option” “keyhole This is very important”
good grief.
Hi from Michele’s…..I wondered how they took those words and turned them into spam.
WHAT a pain! Thanks for sharining this.
I really! think you are onto something with the SpamLibs idea. That would definitely explain my recent half Biblical story/half party-poker links three-part! spam barrage.
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