Every once in a while, I have a great idea. This is a great idea. No, make that a brilliant idea!
I’m going to market a spelling an grammar book to spammers!
Every time I get spam, it’s laden with countless spelling and grammatical errors. You know, things like “It is a good for your mail parts!” or “Vinagra for only CAN $62 per one bottles - is cheap okay! And plus bonus Rollex Copy Watch to be yours!”
You’re probably thinking “Duh! Why didn’t I think of that?!”
Yeah, I know, I’ve been there before myself, too.
The Pet Rock. Duh. Those Baby on Board window signs for cars. Duh. The nuclear subselene developed by Raytheon to bore holes in the Earth and Moon and leave an atomic-reactor-heat-glazed solid glass tunnel in its wake. Duh.
But finally I’ve found my “Duh” product. The one that’s gonna really push me headlong into the world of the movers and shakers.
Now…if I can just figure out how to market it to my target audience…
June 11, 2008 at 4:41 am
Uhm… Lou, you do realize that they do that intentionally right?
Various misspellings and uses of the and along with other tags allow them to obfuscate spam filters with varying degrees of accuracy.
If you want to have some real fun, you can check out the source code for some types of spam. In some of them you’ll see encrypted messages which are used as a form of communication between spammers and other neer-do-wells (you’ll eventually figure out which ones are more likely to have this).
June 11, 2008 at 5:11 am
I was gonna ask if it was real late / early when you read and responded to this but then I looked at the timestamp…
The whole post was a joke…but apparently not a very good one