Best of spam for May 2007

Incredibly sparse spam month. Not just no spam worth commenting, but very few spam at all. Is May vacation month for spammers? Have the Earthlink filters, for the moment, caught up to the spammers techniques? We shall see what happens in June.

Two odd trends. 

One was a line of text "If you cannot see the message please click here" followed by 3 pictures (I presume). Yeah. Right. Bet that worked well.

Another was a colored rectangle with white ad text and black nonsense text. But also hidden (though revealed when highlighted) was more nonsense text that was the same color as the rectangle. 

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(I really hate those long pills lines!)

The hidden text is just as nonsensical as the visible text. The HTML is all perfectly regular. They had a fair number of "the"s in them which spam tend to lack (spam, at least the kind that I get, has a dearth of "the"s and an overabundance of "but"s, "try", "see"s and "may"s) but nothing that I can see that hidden text would give an advantage to when passing through filters.

Senders

• Shortcut Weebly
  
• electrondiet.com
  
• Refugio Butler
  
• fishpond
  
• qualitytank
  
  
• rejoiningpolluting.net

Sound like names

• burundi and dentistry the epitome the
• maximal the storm
  
• arizona the minesweeper
  
• alison the beethoven
  
• bellwether the ammonium
  
• parasol the grenoble
  
• signor the wispy
  
• brahmsian the abyss
  
• electron the tunis
  
• duck the shopkeep
  
• romano the aegis

Sentences

• just click the mouse. Life in a screen! How exciting.
  
• attribute spectacular moral consequences to virtual reality,
  
• People may turn into a bunch of couch institutions.

Almost makes sense

• These natural boring, so balanced and harmonious and uninteresting.
  
• mallard it's crap may insulate
  
• amateur graphic artists will have medium to nun in design skills.
  
• be awaken, apotheosis!
  
• not apogee may visitation but bursitis , art some pastiche
  
• be powerful ! parent not caravan see duck the shopkeep
  
• bramble a hackney and anthropomorphic a tropopause

Phrases

• eleanor aborning

Subjects

• budgetary babyhood
  
• crossword deepen
  
• zone of absorption zone of absorption
  
• can I pay by other methods shipping costs Joseph
  
• dictionary flannel definite
  
• dynamic bluegill corporeal douse can
  
• ferromagnetism commodious hover
  
• capacitate donna menhaden dallas issue pigeonfoot
  
• d'oeuvre cochrane frustrater verbatim muscovite drift gigging
  
• horror lawgive chungking disruptive
  
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