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an amusing lack of proofreading

On the importance of proof reading and checking things from the receiver’s perspective! Email preview: “Hope you’re doing awesome! I’m your go-to person for whipping” Email full text: “Hope you’re doing awesome! I’m your go-to person for whipping up cool apps that users love” Phew

Monday, Jul 1, 2024

@ [Adrian Tritschler]

OK, that would have to be the oddest spam I've seen "free piano"

I’m offering my late husband’s Yamaha Piano to any music enthusiast who may appreciate it. If you or someone you know might be interested in receiving this instrument for free, please feel free to reach out to me.

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2024

@ [Adrian Tritschler]

sponsored content

Hahahaha… no. Hello Our editorial team are currently writing content on behalf of a major industry-leading client seeking to grow their digital presence via quality channels that offer a valuable resource to their audience. Your website ajft.org offers the high standard we are pursuing on behalf of our client and we would appreciate the opportunity to create a piece of sponsored content for your readership. Our content is created to a high standard, and in a way that will genuinely resonate with relevant audiences.

Friday, Jun 25, 2021

@ [Adrian Tritschler]

PUT THIS UNDER YOUR TONGUE FOR 1 MINUTE AND FUNGUS WILL VANISH #spam

Monday, Jan 13, 2020

@ [Adrian Tritschler]

Paranoid? Attempt to register a very bogus looking 'recovery address' for my email at google

Friday, May 24, 2019

@ [Adrian Tritschler]

Paranoid? Email trying to get me to login and unlock my Amazon account. Targetted or just spam?

Friday, May 24, 2019

@ [Adrian Tritschler]

Music Genre confusion spam

Wednesday, Jan 3, 2018

@ Adrian Tritschler

I’m not sure whether the author is truly confused, or if this is meant to be just a blatant attempt at grabbing membership numbers for their forums. I won’t dignify them with a name or URL, but here’s a “personal message” I received through the last.fm messaging system with their name elided: You are invited to join ……., a Gothic & Metal online community aimed at making it easier for like minded people to meet and get to know each other.

Spam Spam Spam

Thursday, Aug 22, 2013

@ Adrian Tritschler

The email system at work is hosted by Google, with all the usual spam filtering and folders. Up until the start of March 2013 I used to skim through the spam folder two or three times a week and check for false positives, of which they’d be one or two a month, rescue them and then I’d delete everything else. In late February and early March 2013 the amount of spam arriving every day and making it into the spam folder became ridiculous, it was impossible to process it so I’ve taken to ignoring it, but jotting down the number of items in the folder every day.

Oh my, an important tax refund notice...

Tuesday, Apr 5, 2011

@ Adrian Tritschler

Bwahaha, there it is in my spam folder, an Important Tax Refund Notice!, and verbatim: Australia Revenue Service " Tax Refund " St. George Bank :-) $3,520.34 AUD Tax Refund Process From ACT @ April 2011. We received notification from Australia Revenue Service about the TAX refunds of $3,520.34 AUD. We advice you to DOWNLOAD on our Secure server Attachment sent along with this Message and enter all information as requested on the St.

Marketeers' spam

Tuesday, Jul 28, 2009

@ Adrian Tritschler

When not snowed under by the sheer weight of spam and rubbish mail, its important to take time out to find those little amusements in the day to day junkmail. Here’s one that came in today, personally addressed to a one-off email address that was on my site for a while, asking for a link exchange because clearly I have something to do with shonky weight-loss products. Please use the following details for my link:

Spammer photomontage

Monday, Apr 6, 2009

@ Adrian Tritschler

So many beautiful lonely Russian ladies writing to me. I’m so sorry girls, I just can’t seem to find the time to get back to you all individually. As a homage, here’s a photomontage of all those pretty pictures you keep sending in the mail:

Musings on a spam

Monday, Aug 27, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

Always such a tedious task, but I have to find the gems amongst the dross: “I am MR. Gray Norman, an accountant” Gray Norman, a gray name for a profession gray by reputation… how very appropriate. “I am a straight forward person” The wonders of the English language… given all the sexual innuendo in the spam, is he really meaning that he is a straight, forward person, or a straight-forward person?

Spam 'o the day

Monday, Apr 24, 2006

@ Adrian Tritschler

My name is Mohammed a merchant in Dubai, have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts. Well, Mohammed, a merchant in Dubai, I can recommend grammar lessons. Defiling medical treatment is probably not what you intend.

Spam du jour

Monday, Aug 2, 2004

@ Adrian Tritschler

jersey cow trombones living with 5 It has a certain poetry, doesn’t it?

Mmm... Spam

Tuesday, Jul 13, 2004

@ Adrian Tritschler

Ah, spam… if I can’t stop it at least I can derive some enjoyment from it: My name is Mr.Mabo Lomas, a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E. I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer which was discovered very late, due to my laxity in carrying for my health. It has defiled all forms of medicine, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts.

Spam

Tuesday, Feb 24, 2004

@ Adrian Tritschler

These random word lists in the latest batches of spam are getting quite weird. Sometimes they almost seem to be saying something. I wonder if I could rig up a script to repopulate a dictionary from them? From yet-another-online-bank-scam comes: /blacksmith, glossed, papa, sarcasm, concession, riemann, arsenic, seacoast, chisel, dramatic, brent, synchrotron, stonehenge./

Weird spam — dedicated to guns…

Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003

@ Adrian Tritschler

OK, this takes the cake for the weirdest spam to arrive in my inbox for quite some time: Dear Portal Administration! I have recently come across your site and liked it very much. I suppose that the visitors of our resources belong to the same social group and my site could be useful for your audience so I suggest to exchange our links. This will help both of us to increase Link-Popularity and accordingly get top positions in many searching system, Google for instance.

SPAM, spam, spam, SPAM, spam, spam…

Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003

@ Adrian Tritschler

Dear Senator Alston. Since you seem to be under the impression that you can control the internet, here’s a sample of today’s spam. Once you’ve passed your anti-spam laws, I’ll be forwarding all I receive straight to your office so that you can best deal with transgressors. 1 O Aug 04 Fulfullmentcent ( 0) Friend, your favorite breakfast food - ou 2 O + Aug 04 butedo@comic.co ( 0) Fw: Hard anaI ACTl0N!

Journal for [2003-07-06 Sun]

Sunday, Jul 6, 2003

@ Adrian Tritschler

Spam Memorable event of the day — my first ever SMS spam, closely followed ten minutes later by my second ever SMS spam.: Congratulations!! your number won US$30,000 login to <//WWW.MASS-LOTTERY.ORG> to claim username: 00767910791 password :6546546 :masslottery@mail15.com Strange thing was that both came from South Africa, and I half thought it was a message from a colleague there… Cycling This afternoon’s cycling adventure was a 38km loop up the Dean’s Marsh road from Lorne, then around through the — rapidly cooling — forest, and a screaming descent from Erskine falls back to Lorne.

Journal for [2002-04-30 Tue]

Tuesday, Apr 30, 2002

@ Adrian Tritschler

Ooo, look! I finally received a copy of the notorious Nigerian Scam email. I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but we went and saw The Scorpion King this evening. 92 minutes of absolute stupidity, but that’s what we were expecting. I think it must have the highest proportion of fight-scenes to movie-length of any movie. Left the cinema half deafened, since the Jam Factory seems to believe that everything has to be turned up to 11, and with my ribs and jaw aching from laughing so much.

Nigerian business proposal

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

@ Adrian Tritschler

For what is a day without spam? I just had to include this. After years of waiting, I finally recieved the famous Nigerian Business Proposal scam in my email inbox. Here, for you education and amusement, I’ve included the text in full. **Engr. WILSON OSARO** Treasury Department Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Tel: +234 80 231 22537. PERSONAL Dear sir, I am WILSON OSARO a Treasury Officer in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and a close associate of the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources.

author portrait — ajft looking stylish and black

…The Owner

There’s not much more I can add to who I am.

…The Site

Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…

I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.

Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.

Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.

…The ISP

Hosted by @cos

…The Grue