Adventures in Internet Marketing

Monday, March 19, 2007

Taunting Spam IX

I have to say, the email security company that I work for, Message Partners, does a damn fine job of stopping this newest wave of criminal spam...so, when some spam does make it through, it's really got to have a special something to beat the different spam filters that MPP runs simultaneously (in fact, we run three different filters with MPP, two open source, one enterprise, which, now that I think of it, is sort of like the American Idol selection process). And if a spam does manage to break through, well, then we subject it to merciless taunting and name calling. And away we go...

I received the following spam:

Subject: tripartit gossi extrinsi

Hi,

Vl qw AGRA from $3, 33
ClALl wu S from $3, 75
VALlU oh M from $1, 20

Taunt begins:

There's just something about those three words in the subject line that trips me up. I mean the "tripartit gossi extrinsi" bit. It looks vaguely Italian, or what Italian would sound like zipping around Rome on a motorbike at midnight in a rainstorm. But now that I say that, I suddenly imagine myself in Italy, and I've arrived in Rome late at night and I'm trying to find lodging, and everything is closed, and I jump on the wrong bus, and I don't have any Italian currency (this part actually happened to me in Genoa) and I don't know where to go, and I don't know what to say, and nobody can speak English, and all I can repeate, over and over again is "tripartit gossi extrinsi!!!"

So thanks spam, thanks for that Italian nonsense phrase. Now let's analyze the message...you seem to be one of the more focused of the spam pill peddlers. You sell Viagra, Cialis, and Valium, which really makes me wonder what weekends are like at your place.

I certainly wouldn't let you babysit my kids. Hell, with that pill collection, I wouldn't even let you walk my dog.

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