OMG! Literary spam!

[altivo]

This is a new one. In the never-ending quest for tricks to get around spam filters, now they're plagiarizing Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for subject lines. I just received four in a row with these subjects:

Prayed and fasted in the forest,

To the kingdom of Wabasso,

Stood the groves of singing pine-trees,

Drove the loon and sea-gull southward,

All are from The Song of Hiawatha, of course. It's difficult to believe that spamming can pay off well enough to justify these shenanigans.

Comments

[lobowolf.livejournal.com]

If Longfellow were alive, he'd be spinning in his grave.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Ah, but would he be using a top whorl or a bottom whorl spindle?

[Sorry, I just couldn't resist crossing over the topic with that...]

Since I posted, I've receive another half dozen of these, all with Hiawatha subject lines. I haven't looked inside to see what they are, but obviously all are from the same source, with phony return addresses and names that always consist of a first initial and last name, separated by a period and no space. Probably pharmaceutical spam, that seems to account for more than half of what gets through my filters. Surely there isn't enough vicodin or cialis made to supply all these junk vendors, so they must be selling phony drugs or else no drugs at all (take the money and run.) I just can't believe that people are still falling for these scams after so long.

[lobowolf.livejournal.com]

I deserved that. :0D

[pioneer11.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've got some of those.

*le sigh*

[hgryphon.livejournal.com]

Foreigners using "the classics" to appear "American."

[altivo.livejournal.com]

That's really funny if it's true. They don't realize that the majority of Americans would never recognize those quotes? Or that they use such archaic language that they often sound downright funny?

[hgryphon.livejournal.com]

They don't use "just" the classics, though. Anything with a long selection of short phrases. I had a whole series of "Fight Club" spams once...