Strangest SPAM you've ever received?

mh · 27 Nov 2006, 19:49

Inspired by the recent "Lamps" one (see the Bin).

As well as the usual willy pills, degrees for sale, bank account notices, solicitors-representing-dead-people-in-Africa, haXXored software and other rubbish, I fairly regularly get emails from a company wanting to sell me stainless steel gates!

What's yours?

christophe · 27 Nov 2006, 20:00

I keep getting this mail I should pay my bills

strange

Dark · 27 Nov 2006, 20:04

I get very entertainingly-titled ones.. "Become a Sperm-Man with Millions of sperms" seems to be a common one nowadays.

Izzy HaveMercy · 27 Nov 2006, 20:04

Professional Hotel shoe polishers.

IZ.

hallucienate · 27 Nov 2006, 20:12

I get one selling speakers every now and then.

James Blast · 27 Nov 2006, 20:19

When I was with AOL (yes, I ken, silly Blastard) I used to get regular mail from a firm that made custom built sceptic tanks, is there something I'm not being told?

Nic · 27 Nov 2006, 20:29

mh wrote: I fairly regularly get emails from a company wanting to sell me stainless steel gates!

Must be one of these then...

Clicky (huge image turned into clicky by markfiend -- if it's too big for my monitor, it's too big for anyone's monitor! )

Dan · 27 Nov 2006, 20:35

The strangest emails I've received lately haven't been selling anything and don't contain a url (and no hidden java, html, etc when I look in the headers). I saved the best 2. I'll have to wrap the 2nd one in code tags to preserver the ascii-ness.

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canon docre · 28 Nov 2006, 11:20

I'm still contemplating about the message within this one.

www [dot] rx44 [dot] info

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I told you I read my mythology. But the thing that really disturbs

Maisey · 28 Nov 2006, 22:06

I get boring stock options from china I'm afraid. How dull.

Although the subjects are usually quite good, 3 random words grouped together (not unlike a black metal album title) to bypass spam filters. Hedonistic Bottletop underwear, that sort of thing.

Izzy HaveMercy · 28 Nov 2006, 22:18

I received an email which was funny, considering the Sissies are going to play Russia.

"Dear Friends,

Please excuse me for this letter.

My name is Valentin. I'm student and I live with my mother in a small town Kaluga, Russia. My mother cannot see and she receive pension very rare which is not enought even for medications.

I work very hard every day to be able to buy necessities for my mother, but my salary is very small, because my studies still not finished."

etcetera etcetera...

An eager fan trying to cash in some money for his Sisters Moscow ticket?

IZ.

weebleswobble · 29 Nov 2006, 04:52

smiscandlon · 29 Nov 2006, 09:55

Most of the spam I get these days is utter gibberish. I mean, what's the point of something like this?

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hallucienate · 29 Nov 2006, 10:17

smiscandlon wrote:Most of the spam I get these days is utter gibberish. I mean, what's the point of something like this?

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Privacy copyright or content strictly prohibited sovereign, artists! Client get bogged down with endless. Dvd, regioncss free shrink, links.
Light soulseek bittorrent while avoiding their problems doesnt rely. Will, dont, an account herelost aa, divx xvid!
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There is probably an image somewhere that contains the payload...

Norman Hunter · 29 Nov 2006, 13:04

Where I've worked, I've specialized in signing other workmates up for various trade newsletters, mailshots and general tat with a Production Engineering -bias, then watching in glee as umpteen envelopes get delivered to an unknowing victim. I still get letters for Portaloos to this day on a regular basis, a victim of my own making.

That's how bad Production Engineering in the UK can be - no wonder we're lagging behind...

BillyBadBreaks · 29 Nov 2006, 15:13

James Blast wrote:When I was with AOL (yes, I ken, silly Blastard) I used to get regular mail from a firm that made custom built sceptic tanks, is there something I'm not being told?

You are being told my friend, but you just don't get it

BillyBadBreaks · 29 Nov 2006, 15:15

I must be getting old as I no longer get spam about male enhancement products just stock trades!

Doktor Gott · 30 Nov 2006, 10:28

Either for Christian Family Loans or Black African American singles in my area..

These spammers aren't very good with their demographics I presume..

30 Nov 2006, 13:08

I occaisionally get messages that tell me about windows enhancements for download.
Does that count as spam, or is it just sh*t?

bushman*pm · 01 Dec 2006, 17:23

James Blast wrote:When I was with AOL (yes, I ken, silly Blastard) I used to get regular mail from a firm that made custom built sceptic tanks, is there something I'm not being told?

Shouldn't that be 'Septic Tanks' but then again, i use that as rhyming slang for those morons on the other side of the pond!

Izzy HaveMercy · 01 Dec 2006, 19:21

bushman*pm wrote:
James Blast wrote:When I was with AOL (yes, I ken, silly Blastard) I used to get regular mail from a firm that made custom built sceptic tanks, is there something I'm not being told?
Shouldn't that be 'Septic Tanks' but then again, i use that as rhyming slang for those morons on the other side of the pond!

Not in James' case no. At one time, he had fifteen of these tanks lined up in his backyard, all deciding whether or not they were gonna take his shit...

IZ.

James Blast · 01 Dec 2006, 19:28

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Not in James' case no. At one time, he had fifteen of these tanks lined up in his backyard, all deciding whether or not they were gonna take his shit...

for you, that was good

Izzy HaveMercy · 01 Dec 2006, 19:32

James Blast wrote:
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Not in James' case no. At one time, he had fifteen of these tanks lined up in his backyard, all deciding whether or not they were gonna take his shit...
for you, that was good

Sometimes a gem is hidden in between all the rubbish, Boss

IZ.