BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!

Subject: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 03:40 PM

I get spam email all the time, purportedly emanating from people with very unlikely names...obviously made-up. It makes it quicker to identify spam and delete it, so I don't mind. Here's the best one yet today:

"Bullwinkle L. Pentagon"

Please post your own stupid spammer made-up names on this thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 03:42 PM

Here are some more from today:

Carradog Herrman

Malachi Schwan

clinging

Alp Ogles

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 03:45 PM

Little Hawk... That's the stupidest spammer I've ever run across....

Oh... right.... that's not true.... The Shambles is slightly worse.....

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: number 6
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:39 PM

What's with the spam e-mail that doesn't have a name.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:48 PM

I received the following, among others:

Half Wit
Wormwood Sage
Pencock Trifle

I particularily liked the first one, since to respond to the email would prove my "name".

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: number 6
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:54 PM

Rapaire ... don't tell me you deleted my e-mail I sent ya ?!?!

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Don Firth
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 05:30 PM

Barbara and I each have our own e-mail address and we have a joint one. Mine starts out with my name, "donfirth@" and then goes from there. What I don't quite understand is that I get spam addressed to "donf—" and just about any and every possible combination of letters from there on.

I'll sometimes get eight or ten at once, different variations of the address, but the body of the message is all the same. Ersatz Rolex watches (my Casio digital with five alarms, a stop-watch, and a countdown timer gains about two seconds a week and I reset it every week to Greenwich Mean Time, and that's good enough for me), or wanting us to ru-up our mortgage, (which we don't have because it was paid off years ago), and for cut-rate drugs and pharmaceuticals from some undisclosed foreign country, no doctors' prescriptions necessary (yeah, right!!). I have a spam blocker that stops the vast majority (sometimes hundreds per day!), but these come in in the "Suspect Email" folder. And the same damned ones come in day after day.

Advertising may come to us through snail-mail addressed to "Occupant," but at least they have to get the street address right.

Barbara and I both get this stuff on all three of our e-mail addresses, when the address at the top of the spam is only approximate, and not even a close approximate at that. If it isn't addressed to us specifically, why the hell are we getting it?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Penny S.
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 05:34 PM

I emailed my ISP about the getting of mail with those characteristics - ie not my name, but the start of my name, and they said that a) The mail was actually sent to a long list of names but the others, including mine, were hidden; and b) They couldn't stop it.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 06:05 PM

Some more came in.

Baldomero Buie

Outside

Counterproductive

Kestrel Deyoung

Eilif Lyssand

Fadia Lusher

Emory Lewis

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 06:07 PM

Clinton Hammond

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 06:10 PM

Two more just came in...

"are"

"Barbitol"

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 06:19 PM

Sys admin.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Alice
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 07:53 PM

I was thinking about this the other day when I noticed that not the names, but the
SUBJECT LINE words have gotten more strange.
It really jumped out at me when I saw one spam email with
"antelope" as the subject.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 08:32 PM

Yeah, weird subject lines are another whole thing unto themselves. Been getting a lot of those.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 10:03 PM

I had a BIG list of those, but either they gave up on me, or my ISP has filtered them out...haven't had one for months.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 10:37 PM

I'll be nice when Mudcat filters out it's spammers

Then "Little Hawk" might have to go out and get something that passes for a life

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: JennyO
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:09 PM

Here's a handful - lots more where they came from:



spacial ambient

dandy nwevo

mrsjoy mane

gefabey gefabey

Watty Wade

legnima yaya ouattara

Glory Betiot

Annabel Zoo

Stella Lrace

Rosemary Fsgu

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: number 6
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:20 PM

Name: Hormel subject: Croquettes

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: GUEST,282RA
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:22 PM

Can't beat Mr. Long-time-handshake-man.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: GUEST,282RA
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:24 PM

Nathaniel C. Hornet

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: GUEST,282RA
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:25 PM

Diorama O'Shinski

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: GUEST,282RA
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:28 PM

Sputnik Monroe--oh wait, that's a real guy. Still an excellent spam name.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 12:32 PM

Today...

Olujimi Wilds

mode, skirmish

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 01:00 PM

Along the line of amusing subject lines, here's one:

"You necessary these pills."

Ha! If it were possible to send them a reply, it would be:

"I NOT necessary these pills."

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Becca72
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 02:17 PM

The strange subject line is another way to get past spam blockers from what I've been told. If the subject line is "Viagra" it's more likely to be blocked than if it's "antelope".

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 02:25 PM

Sys admin

Ah Dave, cron and root email me but nothing they have sent has been spam.

I have had various emails from sysadmin, support, etc. @ my domains though.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Mr Yellow
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 11:25 AM

I get mail on an e-mail forum with names so unlikely I nearly delete them. But then I change the address if it gets spammed. So I know they are genuine - if unlikely.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 12:36 PM

Today's contenders:

Harkaitz Beauchamp

Aydin Oddo

Jesse Tapia

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 12:50 PM

Today I got one from:

Jose Roach

Faustus

Queen Babcock

Thanh Graham

Napoleon Pacheco

Esteban stride

Humberto Waddell

Harris Madrid.

-There was nothing particularly amusing in the subject line apart from one large message of 70-odd kb, entitled just "Radish"

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 12:57 PM

LOL! Amazing, isn't it? Did you open the "Radish" one or just delete it?

I get a "bulk" spam message every day or so under no name whatseover and with nothing at all in the subject line. I delete it.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 01:00 PM

Hell, I deleted... a file THAT size could harbour something a LOT bigger than a virus...*G*

Besides, I HATE radishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 01:01 PM

Today's best subject line so far, from "Justin Lopez":

"prevent improvement capsules"

Why would someone want capsules that prevent improvement??? Perhaps if one was slowly poisoning an unwanted relative or business partner....?

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 03:54 PM

"Placards F. Celli"

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Scoville
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 09:12 PM

Hey, I know a guy named Justin Lopez. Seriously. He doesn't deal in that sort of thing, though.

Crap--I'll have to start monitoring my spammer names. I get some good ones.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 09:47 PM

Unbuttoning I. Epiphany

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 04:27 AM

*ROFL*

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Oaklet
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 04:46 AM

From Ilene Arredondo; "Take just a candy and be ready for 36 hours of love" and from Iseabail Shipp, "dyR Xjo". The one from "crump" didn't have a title - someone called abate did write however about "Great Calibre" which I suspect might have something to do with willies.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: freda underhill
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 04:51 AM

Diodorus Passarelli -

btw an earlier Diodorus (Diodorus Siculus 90 BC– c. 30 BC) was a Greek historian who wrote forty books, describing the ancient world of his time, and his travels through Egypt,Mesopotamia, India, Scythia, Arabia, North Africa, Greece and Europe.

In his writings Diodorus described an early matriarchal society in which women were the judges, warriors and merchants and men stayed home doing the housework and minding the children. He is quoted in "the Paradise papers" by Merlin Stone as part of her argument that there were once matriarchal Goddess-worshipping societies.

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Severn
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 10:47 AM

I only just started getting them this week

Claudius Massey
Net Knapp

are the culprits, so far.....

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 02:37 PM

Dose E. Moldova

Viljo Wortman

Briony Petrik

Ilean Bullard

bracken

and from "devil", this subject line: "we can credit you by cashe"

Oh, yeah! I just bet you can. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 06:33 PM

Only 2 notable ones today...

monet hoium

Flossie Purvis

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Girl Friday
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 06:41 PM

I just got 42 of the bloody things. Luckily YAHOO filters them. I get really stupid names offering me gold watches, jewellery, viagra, and slimming pills, and, what the hell is ephedra? Sometimes the subjects are all in symbols. i.e ##~///////????. Have these idikots nothing better to do with themselves?

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 07:23 PM

Ephedra is both a stimulant (similar to adrenaline) and a thermogenic. It stimulates the brain, increases heart rate, constricts blood vessels (increasing blood pressure), and expands bronchial tubes (making breathing easier). Its thermogenic properties cause an increase in metabolism, evidenced by an increase in body heat.

Side effects of ephedra may include irritability, nervousness, dizziness, trembling, headache, vomiting and hyperthermia. Chemical dependence may also develop.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: RichM
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 07:34 PM

Monica Loguidice
Dorete Smelley
Novia Poffenberger
clitoris

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: GUEST,Wilfred Pennifere
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 07:52 PM

DORETE SMELLEY! Be still my beating heart!!! Dorete Smelley was the great unrequited love of my 16th year. What fond memories I have of observing her adoringly from a distance as she traipsed up and down the street outside my family's walk-up flat in Kensington! What horrid memories I have of the arrogant, disgusting wretches who dated her and laid their filthy hands on her while I ground my teeth in impotent desperation and clutched my old and faded copies of the National Geographic against my heaving bosom in the privacy of the family loo!

Dorete! Dorete! Where are you now? Are you sitting at some computer keyboard just like me and delivering spam to the unwashed hordes? Dorete, I am still waiting! Send your present address to Wilfred Pennifere, 22 Lower Swagsbottom End, Stokely-on-Thames, Berkshire, UK.

I am only a heartbeat away!

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: GUEST,'Rita', nee Dorete Smelley
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 09:53 PM

Wilfred....Wilfred?

NO! Not spotty little Wilfy at 27a?

Well, well...

are you RICH now, little Wilfy, hmmmm?

I didnt think you had it in you! I don't think your Daddy thought you did either. How is your Daddy?

I wont ask after your Grandfather, I expect he has gone from amongst us?....the last few times I 'saw' him, I didnt expect he would be up to requiring my...'services' again...

Well...there is a car drawing up, so I must go....can't leave you my address dearie, but you will find my phone number on a business card in any phone box in Kensington!

Cheerio, darlin'!

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 04:52 AM

Manganese B. Dibbles

I'm not sure but it might be the same source as "Unbuttoning I. Epiphany". Both contained a link, saying it was for some pharmacy

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Flash Company
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 07:19 AM

Spam spotter programmes can be a little obtuse to say the least, The confirmation booking for my rail tickets to Cornwall got dumped because it came from Virgin Rail.

FC

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 09:18 AM

I just looked in trash & see that Larry Edwards sent me an email with the subject "Don't waste your time"

so I didn't & his message, & the one from Fifth Third Bank (eh?? what kind of a weird name is that for a bank??) & the EDS company's 'Eastline Delivery Service company. Job Offer' have all gone into the wide blue yonder

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Spammer Made-up Names!
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 12:38 PM

Oh - Job offer. I thought you had sent Joe Offer into the wide blue yonder, Sandra.