How creative can spammers be?

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief May 28, 2007 · 1 min read

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I must have seen/read thousands of spam comments in my lifetime. Almost 99% of them are easily spotted, flagged by Akismet or Spam Karma 2 or left in moderation. A few are becoming really creative lately to the extent that the copy would seem like it came from an intelligent being.

Nevertheless, none thus far have been as creative as this one:

Helga | [email protected] | uswis.info/wasteland-bdsm | IP: 69.123.158.121

Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children ugand

May 28, 3:24 PM â€” [ Edit | Delete | View Post ]

How charitable. How humane.

So, what’s the best spam you’ve ever had?

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20 Comments

L.A · 19 years ago

I can do that too…Matry din nga mag-spam haha!!! Very very charitable nila ^^

nemo666 · 19 years ago

..well the banks pamming is still at large nowadays… be careful in the URL

Dexter Zaf · 19 years ago

From scale of 1 to 5, I think 7….

Jun Macarambon · 19 years ago

one of my latest spam on my blog :P

if(1==1)
{
print(” Business Process Outsource ” );

goto menu();
}
else
{
print(“You’ll missed half of your life!”);
}
endif

MiGs · 19 years ago

From: â€œab****@gmail.comâ€
To: Me
Date: Feb 26, 2007 12:20 PM
Subject: Account Alert

Dear Valued Member,

According to our terms of services, you will have to confirm your e-mail by the following link, or your account will be suspended for security reasons.]

I blogged it here: http://migs.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/gmail-abuse/

Jeffrey Wong · 19 years ago

A client of mine who owns a blog had approved several comments they thought it was legitimate:

“Lovely, informative site, thanks”

“Congratulations on finally setting up your site. I am sure the website will become a internet legend”

“great site great site great site BRAVO!”

Miguel · 19 years ago

The Loi Estrada scam spam.

Gail · 19 years ago

How about a “religious” one?

Name: sveta | E-mail: sv****@cepk.info | URI: greatsexfree.info/arabic-sex-movie | IP: 213.112.170.97 | Date: May 27, 2007

This website is very nice and colorful too. Its nice to have something to show others where you attend church and to show all the smiling people filled of the goodness of the Lord. You have a wonderful website here. May God rich bless you always.

Aja Lapus · 19 years ago

The instance of “bdsm” on that comment’s URL really is the sign of spamminess. I just remember, some spams I’ve read are quite hilarious. They say it clear and simple: