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AOL Names Top Spam Subjects For 2005
JamesAlfaro writes "Donald Trump and "penis patch" were the most popular subject lines used by spammers this year, as the fraudsters grew more sophisticated in trying to trick consumers, America Online said Wednesday in its third annual Top 10 Spam List. Six out of the 10 top subject lines this year fell into what experts call "special-order spam," which pretend to be from a friend, or part of a legitimate, customer-driven transaction."
Ever head of the many great realtime blackhole lists?
http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml
http://dnsbl.njabl.org/
http://ordb.org/
No need to roll your own. There is even one designed to list dynamic IPs (http://www.dnsbl.nl.sorbs.net/).
AC: Only on slashdot... could the sentence "My hovercraft is full of eels." be moderated "+4, Insightful
That is true in many cases. But I'm surprised how often I hear of people buying things from spammers.
.1% of those who recieve it buy something, that's still 100 sales. Not bad if you're selling a $50 knock-off watch.
It's not that expensive or difficult to send a spam out to, say, two million addresses. Even if 95% are blocked, and only
AC: Only on slashdot... could the sentence "My hovercraft is full of eels." be moderated "+4, Insightful
Thanks. Not only do you apparently not understand the full nature of spamhaus, you never even read my full comment, else you wouldnt have made yours.
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
A listing of this week's subjects:
10 Subject: Re:
4 Subject: IMPORTANT MESSAGE
3 Subject: BE INFORMED ( UNCLAIMED - PRIZE)
2 Subject: UK LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION Batch: 074/05/ZY369
2 Subject: AWAIT YOUR URGENT REPLY
1 Subject: àúä äåìê ìâìåú àú îä ùàó àçã ìà øåöä ùúãò...
1 Subject: contact your claims agent
1 Subject: Your Urgent Attention Is Required
1 Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION LETTER.
1 Subject: Urgent Funds for Investment.
1 Subject: TRUSTING YOU IN ACTUALIZING THIS
1 Subject: THANKS
1 Subject: REQUEST ASSISTANCE/PARTNERSHIP .
1 Subject: REPLY TODAY PLEASE!!!
1 Subject: RE: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED
1 Subject: Please kindly get back to me.
1 Subject: PRIVATE AND URGENT
1 Subject: PRAY FOR ME
1 Subject: PLEASE TREAT URGENTLY-------
1 Subject: PLEASE ASSIST
1 Subject: ONLINE DRAWS
1 Subject: NOTICE
1 Subject: NEED YOUR REPLY
1 Subject: Mrs. Nora Walters(Benefactor).
1 Subject: Mrs Mary Koffi/ Michael son.
1 Subject: Martinez
1 Subject: MY INTRODUCTION
1 Subject: LAST WINNING NOTIFICATION$$$
1 Subject: INVESTMENT
1 Subject: Hope to hear from you soonest.
1 Subject: Good day
1 Subject: From: DR. JOSEPH
1 Subject: FROM DR IBRAHIM DABLA
1 Subject: FRANCIS SULE
1 Subject: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
1 Subject: FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!
1 Subject: Expecting your response.
1 Subject: Dear Friend.
1 Subject: Contract Payment From Central Bank Of Nigeria
1 Subject: Congratulations! You won...
1 Subject: COULD YOU BE ENTRUSTED WITH US$50,000,000 (?)
1 Subject: CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT
1 Subject: CONGRATULATIONS- YOU JUST HIT THE JACKPOT.
1 Subject: CALL FOR LOTTERY CLAIM!!!!!!!!!!!
1 Subject: ATTENTON////Pascoe???
Apparently I get a different kind of spam than AOL.
...subject to some minimum amount of time to allow for temporary errors when the server crashes and the admin only gets it halfway back up, or someone breaks the config, or the domain name or hosting contract expires and mail gets routed to a parking server until it's renewed, etc.