Inventive spam
I’m not alone in saying that I’m completely sick of spam. Millions of Internet users are plagued, on a daily basis, with spam that is completely useless and untargeted. That being said, there are some inventive articles of spam circulating out there, and I think they deserve some credit.
Typical types of spam
Spam can come in many forms. Postal mail spam has been around for ages, and is still a very common form of spam. It would seem that most people have gotten used to getting postal mail spam, since you don’t see it complained about too much.
Then came telemarketers. Telemarketing is a business that rivals the arms-trade. Ok, perhaps it isn’t that successful, but it’s a force to be reckoned with.
With the arrival of the Internet, spam had a whole new world to explore. Banner ads became the norm as you surfed around, what is now, the global and visual Internet. E-mail spam, which is quite possibly the most successful form of non-opt-in marketing to-date, has run rampant across the Internet. Typical Internet users deal with many pieces of spam per day. E-mail spam is far worse than it’s postal predecessor. For the spammer, it costs much less to send an email than it does to send a pamphlet of well-design information.
Comment spam, which is a recent new-comer to the spam world, has been getting more and more intrusive for Weblogs across the Interent. The problem? All Weblogs are structured very simliar, so posting comments to these systems is quite easy to automate. Also, the more popular a Web site gets, the more spam it receives. It goes without saying that TUG.n only receives very few pieces of comment spam per week, but it’s annoying nonetheless.
Inventive spam
Spam has gotten better, in terms of humor mostly, over the years. Sending me Viagra information is really a waste of time, being that I’m only 24 and have a perfectly healthy 4-hour erection. Sending me pictures of females doing things with farm animals is a waste of data storage, since that really isn’t my cup of tea.
Don’t get me wrong, I wish spam were true, but I’m a realist.
Comment spam, like it’s E-mail family member, has become more and more inventive as well. Comments that link to pharmacuticals, while commenting on my Web site’s design is one of my favorites. Most noteably however, has been the Family Guy quotes spam I’ve been receiving lately.
Here’s one I got today:
Peter Griffin: Gee, Lois, I hope that you don’t do something stupid like buying that time share or realizing that your husband taped over our wedding video with
soft-core cable porn.Lois Griffin: You taped over our wedding video?
Peter Griffin: Just the boring stuff.
Obviously, intertwind into the message were links to various forms of erectile disfunction solutions, but I still thought this was a great spam. It would probably not be caught by any spam protection plugins, except mine, so it would be almost gauranteed to get in. And, being that I love Family Guy I even made up a post about it!
Sorry HeadAcheTreatment Centers, you won’t be getting a plug from me. Wait. Damn!
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