Man spam emails are coming in with some weirrrrrd subject lines!
I read in another post that this might be to fool the spam filters, and I can see it as a trick in the body, but would anyone really be tricked into opening an email with the subject line of
Re: For count my saltshaker moderator
?
Oh wait, that must be in response to an email I must have sent someone with the subject line of
I’ve been noticing the new subject line technique in spam sent to our Verizon email accounts. I copy and paste the full header of the email then send it in to the Verizon abuse email address.
Not only do they have the nonsense at the top, they include bits of some story or nonsense at the bottom:
“from whom I have had no separate existence since his birth, - to it is a girl and boy attachment, and girl and boy attachments very
many talents neglected, many opportunities wasted, many erratic and particularly unpromising; and my mind misgave me that he had found home. Of the pair of hired post-horses being ready, and of Doras going and Jip to Putney. So they went, very soon after the funeral.”
I only get spam from Adbul Kashmir and his cohorts form all different countries of the world taking about tranferring millions of dollars from his foreign bank account. And I only get 1 or 2 of those a day, evrything else gets caught by my SPAM filter. I’ve reported every email like that for the past few months, and although the numbers have gone down from 10 a day to 1, I still get some guy from who-knows-where-istan asking me for credit info…