Spam subject lines that caught my geeky attention
When looking through my gmail Spam folder today, I saw several titles that stood out from the rest. About two thirds of them were about online pharmacies selling cheap Cialis. The rest were mostly about debt reduction; cheap replica watches; and people pretending to be someone I know, wishing to contact me. Some even included my email username in the title, which caught my eye. But, I still didn’t need their Cialis, so I didn’t click on them.
A few others actually made me click for a closer look–just for curiosity’s sake–because they used technical terms. Before deleting them, I decided they deserved publishing, because this was a relatively clever way to send spam to a geek. Here they are:
- Output iterators do not have a value type, because it is impossible to obtain a value from an output iterator but only to write a value through it.
- To launch and access an out-of-process server across the network in a COM application, both client and server must fulfill certain security requirements.
- The statistical engine makes use of the kernel-level packet filter to efficiently classify the incoming packet.
The messages, themselves, were actually another ad for cheap Cialis; an “insider” stock tip; and a collection of various mostly-geeky sentences–clearly collected from many different sources–and randomly strung together. The latter was somewhat amusing to read, so I’m including it here:
Paths in this manual may not reflect those compiled into httpd. A string representing the culture name.
Oh, wake up, Arthur. He knew there were heavy catapults there, and some fast boats in the island harbor.
Broken Cross Disk Manager 3. It will never be found, because I could never possibly describe where it is and how to find it.
Then the Ghost Not component kicked in, and the map got chopped up and stuck together again with the dark bits now completely missing.
Is especially effective in recovering digital images in JPEG format.
Utilities for Windows 95. Checked links to see if they work, and added an article for each red (unlinked) link.
The texture of his writing as a whole is undistinguished, at times fumbling. Chris looks askance at him.
There are no such rules. Look, pretend you’re injured real early.
Spanish Reversers might care to download the entire WKT Site (837k).
The 10Base-T Ethernet system uses this approach.
One advantage of fighting monsters was not having to worry about identification and who-goes-there games. LTM has been improved and simplified. It does not explain how to break into the E911 system. You may go no further.
You can normally use these modems by loading the program under DOS and doing a warm boot. I want you to listen to it.
For information on this, please see. Changes to Support Conditional Compilation Based on Build Environment.
Oh, and that last one also had an image attached, which was, of course, another advertisement for cheap Cialis from some overseas pharmacy. :)
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