Spam Humor

Awesome, just received a German spam, obviously *trying* to advertise a porn site. The way they blew up really made me laugh -- loud. :) "Im World Wide Web unter www.example.com kannst du dir alles ansehen, dabei deinen Schw[...]" Yes, they really did use *that* URI. Identified spam, all I'm

Re: Humor? Attention, Bayes poison

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 07:14 -0800, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Sunday, February 8, 2009, 2:02:56 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > It was good for a laugh, really. :) Until a strange feeling crept over > > me, realizing the words... > > > Confirmed. That paragraph *severely* affected Bayes for me. No

Re: Humor? Attention, Bayes poison

On Sunday, February 8, 2009, 2:02:56 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > Just got this in an actual replica watch spam. > This spam was sent using an innocent third party as the fake sender address > who will pick up bounces and misdirected spam complaints. It went out via a > third party host

Re: Humor? Attention, Bayes poison (update)

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 00:25 +, RW wrote: > On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:05:35 +0100 Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > Oh, and the text actually is incorrect. Neither has been sent from the > > USA, though it actually are dial-ups. ;) > > The text is lifted from here: > http://www.joewein.de/sw/spam-re

Re: Humor? Attention, Bayes poison (update)

On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:05:35 +0100 Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > It was good for a laugh, really. :) Until a strange feeling crept > > over me, realizing the words... > > > > Confirmed. That paragraph *severely* affected Bayes for me. No Bayes > > training with that mail up to that point, resu

Re: Humor? Attention, Bayes poison (update)

> It was good for a laugh, really. :) Until a strange feeling crept over > me, realizing the words... > > Confirmed. That paragraph *severely* affected Bayes for me. No Bayes > training with that mail up to that point, results reproducible. > > BAYES_99 probability 1.WITHOUT that text >

Humor? Attention, Bayes poison

Just got this in an actual replica watch spam. This spam was sent using an innocent third party as the fake sender address who will pick up bounces and misdirected spam complaints. It went out via a third party host (broadband host in the USA), i.e. stealing someone else's service. It was

Humor

Slashdot is running a story about a virus getting loose in the British Navy. I was amused by this comment:

Re: OT/Humor: Do I have to live in fear of spammers?

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 10:44, Chr. v. Stuckrad took the opportunity to say: > Does somebody have a list for something like > 'the best random-generated spam/text' > without polluting this list ? Perhaps not random, but there's always http://spamusement.com/ -- Magnus Holmgren[EMA

OT/Humor: Do I have to live in fear of spammers?

Today a subject went undetected through the filter and 'made my day' (ROTFL, couldn't resist to post :-)) Subject: Consequently We must kill you not perhaps. ... Stocks spam ... Does somebody have a list for something like 'the best random-generated spam/text' without polluting t

Re: OT humor

From: "Kelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jdow wrote: In the October "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine one of the short stories is titled "Nigerian Scam" by Richard A. Lovett, in which the scammer really IS from "Vega", the protagonist misses seeing the scam involved, and the scammer and gets

Re: OT humor

jdow wrote: In the October "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine one of the short stories is titled "Nigerian Scam" by Richard A. Lovett, in which the scammer really IS from "Vega", the protagonist misses seeing the scam involved, and the scammer and gets "dealt with" in the end quite um app

OT humor

In the October "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine one of the short stories is titled "Nigerian Scam" by Richard A. Lovett, in which the scammer really IS from "Vega", the protagonist misses seeing the scam involved, and the scammer and gets "dealt with" in the end quite um appropriately an

RE: HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing people.

Title: RE: HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing people. > > > > Just trying to reach someone in the company who: > > 1) Understands what I'm talking about > > 2) Gives a sh1t > > 3) Has the power to change the problem. > > is too long of a battle.

Re: HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing people.

From: "Chris Santerre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Alan Premselaar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] snip... > And the first thing in the Ham was about adding their address to your > contacts to make sure you get their email. If they were so worried, they > would write better marketing emails. > > --

RE: HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing people.

Title: RE: HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing people. > -Original Message- > From: Alan Premselaar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 10:53 PM > To: Chris Santerre > Cc: SaTalk (E-mail) > Subject: Re: HUMOR: Gap needs to fir

Re: HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing people.

From: "Alan Premselaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 snip... And the first thing in the Ham was about adding their address to your contacts to make sure you get their email. If they were so worried, they would write better marketing emails. --Chris May

Re: HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing people.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 snip... > And the first thing in the Ham was about adding their address to your > contacts to make sure you get their email. If they were so worried, they > would write better marketing emails. > > --Chris > Maybe you should send them an email to t

RE: HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing people.

Title: RE: HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing people. > -Original Message- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 10:36 AM > To: Dallas L. Engelken > Cc: SaTalk (E-mail) > Subject: Re: HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing peop

Re: HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing people.

Dallas L. Engelken wrote: > or maybe M.O. needs to can their email admin for not whitelisting those > all important gap mailers. ;) > Or adjust their mail filters so they're not so over-zealous that you need to whitelist everything of a commercial nature. I personally detest using whitelists a

RE: HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing people.

: HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing people. This is HAM. Signed up for by the user. But whoever is creating these mailers for The Gap, needs to be fired. Subject: Size Matters. Find Out Why Inside. Seriously, they paid someone to come up with that

HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing people.

Title: HUMOR: Gap needs to fire Marketing people. This is HAM. Signed up for by the user. But whoever is creating these mailers for The Gap, needs to be fired. Subject: Size Matters. Find Out Why Inside. Seriously, they paid someone to come up with that? Its like they are trying to be

Re[2]: OT Humor: was rules better than bayes?

Hello William, Tuesday, January 10, 2006, 11:37:35 AM, you wrote: >> But the 4 letters that matter with Bayes are: >>YMMV WS> Isn't that an OTCBB Ticker symbol? I heard they're about to go WS> through the _roof_!! Your Milage May Vary, Inc. I hear they're cornering the market on auto

Re: More unintentional spam humor/irony

Thomas Cameron wrote: > I dunno, I thought the mention of the Army Corps of Engineers and > pumping in the same message as a "lose weight" message was pretty funny > as well... Hmm.. Mil-spec liposuction? Ouch.

Re: More unintentional spam humor/irony

t;unfortunate" part that Barton was referring to (the part that creates humor) is the joining of e-colli with a weight loss spam. Getting e. coli is a quick way to loose weight, but a VERY unpleasant and rather grotesque way to do it. (slightly gross, as this page describes the symtpo

Re: More unintentional spam humor/irony

t;unfortunate" part that Barton was referring to (the part that creates humor) is the joining of e-colli with a weight loss spam. Getting e. coli is a quick way to loose weight, but a VERY unpleasant and rather grotesque way to do it. (slightly gross, as this page describes the symtpo

Re: More unintentional spam humor/irony

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bart Schaefer writes: > The choice of anti-bayes-filler below is unfortunate on so many levels nasty. but unsurprising -- I've always thought that news/current events would make the best bayes poison -- certainly beats 19th century prose > ...

More unintentional spam humor/irony

The choice of anti-bayes-filler below is unfortunate on so many levels ... and on top of that, they spammed our abuse address. (Links to spammer site deleted.) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:45:40 +0500 From: Nadia Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: abuse Subject: R

Re: More spam humor :-)

List Mail User wrote: My favorite, for a long time has been: ... my name is Linda. I teach 4'th grade math class at a junior h i g h. ... I rather liked the irony in this one: Real Cllgeoe Girls Neeswt Tnocoelhgy for Gteting Off! Find out what these cleolge girls REALLY

Re: More spam humor :-)

Loren Wilton wrote: I have to admit though that this is the most amusing hostname that "Jill" has come up with (that I've seen) so far. :-) I recently received a porn spam with a wildcard domain name. One of the links was to http://horrible.b_jobs.com -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communi

Re: More spam humor :-)

> > We've reviewed your mortgage on 113 Daum in Iowa City and we are > confident that we can save you money... > Nah, it's the > > We've reviewed your mortgage on PO Box 10275 and we are > confident that we can save you money... > That gets me. Cheaper than $38/year? Sign me up!

Re: More spam humor :-)

On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, List Mail User wrote: > My favorite, for a long time has been: > > ... my name is Linda. I teach 4'th grade math class at a junior h i g h. ... > > I think I got about 20 copies of that message. > > Paul Shupak Ah, but you have to understand she's teaching Ne

Re: More spam humor :-)

>... >Hello, > >My name is Jill and I'm a student at NYU. >I've always wanted to be a model and an >actress and I just added my webcam to this >site. http://www.upstatebeef.info/nc3/ > >- > >I don't know if Jill is real and really interested in people getting to her >web page(s)

More spam humor :-)

Subject: NYU_Hottie's Web page Hello, My name is Jill and I'm a student at NYU. I've always wanted to be a model and an actress and I just added my webcam to this site. http://www.upstatebeef.info/nc3/ - I don't know if Jill is real and really interested in people getting t

Re: Well, sometimes they have an (inadvertant?) sense of humor...

>... > >X-Originating-Server: inaccessible.scottishaccommodationindex.com > >Hey, just what I want! An inaccessible Scottish Accomodation! I'll look >one right up on the web! > >Loren > > Looks like an idiot for an administrator; The registration data is invalid/incorrect - but d

Well, sometimes they have an (inadvertant?) sense of humor...

X-Originating-Server: inaccessible.scottishaccommodationindex.com Hey, just what I want! An inaccessible Scottish Accomodation! I'll look one right up on the web! Loren

[OT] Humor..er...ninja violence?

Evening news arrow flew into the dojo last night. Brought this link: http://www.ninjai.com/ (Little Ninja) NOT WORK SAFE! Extreme animated violence, language, birds, and what appears to be God with a katana :D (No nudity.) 12 chapters. Takes about 1.5 hours to view whole story so far. Kicks in a

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

Heh. I'm a She-Hulk fan myself. Talk about your powerful woman icon! > -Original Message- > From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 07:27 > To: Kurt Buff; users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: OT: Do spammers h

Secondary relay rule (was: Do spammers have a sense of humor?)

script that checks for loss of connectivity on the primary and adjusts the score accordingly. But I haven't felt the need. Regards, Pierre -Original Message- From: Pettit, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 2:28 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

> Pierre Thomson wrote: > > Fortunately SA (2.64) > saw through it and nailed this using Bayes, DCC, and a custom > rule that penalizes mail coming through the secondary relay > when the primary is up. > Would you be willing to post that custom rule? I get a number of those kind of spams and

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 16:58 > > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > > Subject: Re: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor? > > > > > > I got a phishing scam email from one 'Batman Cole' .. batman? > > ... goood >

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

nal Message- > From: Pierre Thomson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 12 April 2005 15:13 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor? > > Just fished this one out of the spambox: > > >Your exclusive night has been conf

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

Monday, April 11, 2005 8:12 PM >To: 'Matthew Lenz'; users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor? > > >Most people reading this list are probably not aware that batman has a >slightly different meaning to some people in current/form

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

Just fished this one out of the spambox: >Your exclusive night has been confirmed with Erika. > >Time: ASAP >Location: Either Home within 1.2 miles of you >Attire: Dress casual >Expectation(s): To get right to it. >Quote from Janice: "I've got a nice house open to you! I'm alone these next >few

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

w Lenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 16:58 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor? > > > I got a phishing scam email from one 'Batman Cole' .. batman? > ... goood > lord. hehe > >

Re: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

I got a phishing scam email from one 'Batman Cole' .. batman? ... goood lord. hehe - Original Message - From: "David B Funk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 6:23 PM Subject: Re: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor? On Sat, 9 Apr

Re: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, List Mail User wrote: > Obviously, you've never noticed contact emails at iamaspammer. com:) > > Paul Shupak > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > P.S. "Manila Industries, Inc." of Thailand provides many domains for spam > support services. Yes, almost as good a trick as w

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

>-Original Message- >From: Richard.Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 11:37 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor? > > >On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Pierre Thomson wrote: > >> 419 spa

Re: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

Obviously, you've never noticed contact emails at iamaspammer. com:) Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. "Manila Industries, Inc." of Thailand provides many domains for spam support services.

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Pierre Thomson wrote: > 419 spammers definitely produce humorous spams, albeit unintentionally. Indeed ... > On behalf of my widow's friend,I may wish to engage > your service [...] OTOH if they can spam us from beyond the grave, I guess we might as well all admit defeat. Th

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

ent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 9:58 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor? Today I got your typical Nigerian spam. This one was different, though; it read: "I am Mrs Melissa Pointer the wife of Mr Harry Pointer, my husband" "Mr Harry

OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

Today I got your typical Nigerian spam. This one was different, though; it read: "I am Mrs Melissa Pointer the wife of Mr Harry Pointer, my husband" "Mr Harry Pointer" ?? LOL It seems spammers have a sense of humor, after all. :) - Mark

Re: HUMOR: 419 pic

On 3/30/2005 10:15 PM +0100, Chris Santerre wrote: For those of you who don't know, there is a group of ppl that lead 419 scammers on wild goose chases. One of the things they do is request pics for proof. THey have them do some funny stuff. (Bread and fish on head) This came accross my mail today.

HUMOR: 419 pic

For those of you who don't know, there is a group of ppl that lead 419 scammers on wild goose chases. One of the things they do is request pics for proof. THey have them do some funny stuff. (Bread and fish on head) This came accross my mail today. Pretty funny! (Contains the word p enis.) http:/

RE: MISC: HUMOR Instant 419!

>-Original Message- >From: Kenneth Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 12:09 AM >To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) >Subject: Re: MISC: HUMOR Instant 419! > > >--On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:31 PM -0500 Chris Santerre ><[EMAIL

Re: MISC: HUMOR Instant 419!

--On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:31 PM -0500 Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looks like 419'er are using instant messaging to get people now! Funny conversation that a friend of mine had. Worth the read. http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/funny419.txt (Friends name change

MISC: HUMOR Instant 419!

Looks like 419'er are using instant messaging to get people now! Funny conversation that a friend of mine had. Worth the read. http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/funny419.txt (Friends name changed, but engrojie_adams is the real 419'er. --Chris

Re: Humor: "The Ultimate Spam Email"

good scoring here... Content analysis details: (10.2 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- 0.0 RCVD_BY_IP Received by mail server with no name 0.0 URG_BIZ

RE: Humor: "The Ultimate Spam Email"

> > > >Scores pretty well (14.3, 9.0 required), though, I heard that > >SpamAssassin > >3+ included the SARE_FRAUD rules (or similiar). But looking at > >the report, I > >don't see any fraud-hits from SpamAssassin :-/ > > > >Would it be wise to re-add SARE_FRAUD as a extra ruleset to > >SpamAssa

RE: Humor: "The Ultimate Spam Email"

> >Scores pretty well (14.3, 9.0 required), though, I heard that >SpamAssassin >3+ included the SARE_FRAUD rules (or similiar). But looking at >the report, I >don't see any fraud-hits from SpamAssassin :-/ > >Would it be wise to re-add SARE_FRAUD as a extra ruleset to >SpamAssassin? > >Kind Re

RE: Humor: "The Ultimate Spam Email"

> -Original Message- > From: Thomas Arend [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:41 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Humor: "The Ultimate Spam Email" > > Am Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2005 22:46 schrieb J

Re: Humor: "The Ultimate Spam Email"

Am Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2005 22:46 schrieb Jim Maul: > Mike Jackson wrote: > >> http://lowendmac.com/lite/05/0210.html > > > > I sent it to myself... > > > > X-Spam-Report: > > * 1.8 URG_BIZ BODY: Contains urgent matter > > * 0.7 SARE_MONEYTERMS BODY: Talks about money in some way. > > * 0.7

Re: Humor: "The Ultimate Spam Email"

Jonathan Nichols wrote: > This oughta replace GTUBE! > > http://lowendmac.com/lite/05/0210.html Heh. I spent an afternoon going through SA tests and very carefully assembling a spam that would trip as many tests as possible. I copied headers from a message that tripped all kinds of RBLs, I copi

Re: Humor: "The Ultimate Spam Email"

Mike Jackson wrote: http://lowendmac.com/lite/05/0210.html I sent it to myself... X-Spam-Report: * 1.8 URG_BIZ BODY: Contains urgent matter * 0.7 SARE_MONEYTERMS BODY: Talks about money in some way. * 0.7 SARE_URGBIZ BODY: Contains urgent matter * 2.6 NA_DOLLARS BODY: Talks about a million Nor

Re: Humor: "The Ultimate Spam Email"

http://lowendmac.com/lite/05/0210.html I sent it to myself... X-Spam-Report: * 1.8 URG_BIZ BODY: Contains urgent matter * 0.7 SARE_MONEYTERMS BODY: Talks about money in some way. * 0.7 SARE_URGBIZ BODY: Contains urgent matter * 2.6 NA_DOLLARS BODY: Talks about a million North American dollars *

Humor: "The Ultimate Spam Email"

This oughta replace GTUBE! http://lowendmac.com/lite/05/0210.html

HUMOR: Aol Commercial?

Not sure if this has been posted before.. http://www.espphotography.com/funnyshit/aol.avi - parody commercial of AOL. Hysterical. but warning: Adult content. I have some more funny videos at http://www.espphotography.com/funnyshit/ . Most are from ebaumsworld.com - great site. If any represent

RE: HUMOR: Legit ham subject

>-Original Message- >From: Daniel Quinlan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 2:50 PM >To: Chris Santerre >Cc: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) >Subject: Re: HUMOR: Legit ham subject > > >Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: &

Re: HUMOR: Legit ham subject

Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is from an FP I got this morning. Legit ham subject! > > "See Children's Letters To God- as low as $25*!":-) > > Its the name of a Broadway show. Good grief these legit newsletters need to > meet us halfway! Which rules caused the FP? Dani

HUMOR: Legit ham subject

This is from an FP I got this morning. Legit ham subject! "See Children's Letters To God- as low as $25*!":-) Its the name of a Broadway show. Good grief these legit newsletters need to meet us halfway! --Chris