Brian Alvey

N.J. suspected as source of stench

1163 days ago

I like how spammers are incorporating timely headlines in their subject lines these days.

I've seen spam with subject lines about celebrity breakups the day the news breaks.

One I got the other day was titled "N.J. suspected as source of stench" and since I am way out of town I wouldn't have known what they were talking about if it hadn't been for Jeffrey's blog post on the gas smell in NYC.

Great work, spammers!

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Carbonize 1162 days ago

Odds are they just have their bots grab the latest headline from an RSS feed.
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Brian Alvey 1162 days ago

Exactly, but it's way more likely to get people to open the messages. Very clever.
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Craig Wood 1160 days ago

And why does everyone think this is breaking news? Hasn't New Jersey been considered New York's armpit for decades.
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ron 1155 days ago

If all the residents bought this product it might help!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=34062&in_page_id=34

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