KHAAAAAN!
I am being bombarded with a new spam campaign. A typical email contains the following text:
Furthermore, safety, privacy, discretion, and time are all major factors.
It is then followed by a URL. The software generating the messages, though, is smart enough to shuffle the order of the “factor” words around, and sometimes omit one of them. So I tried creating a “Delete It” filter in Gmail that matches all email with the words “safety”, “privacy”, and “discretion”. That would eliminate 80% of spam from this campaign. However, according to a test search, I would miss quite a few messages from the ACLU….
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June 26th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I would miss quite a few messages from the ACLU
That’s not a bug, that’s a feature. I love the ACLU, and I don’t regret giving them money over the years, but I do regret giving them my personal information. In terms of spam and (more importantly) junk snail mail, letting them get to me was a huge mistake, because they immediately shared my information with any slightly left-leaning organization that they could find.
October 18th, 2008 at 11:13 am
This bewilders me, too. About half of those supposedly left-leaning organizations send mailings that essentially say, “Save the planet. Here’s five ounces of glossy paper to tell you how we’re doing just that. And return address labels, with your address and our logo, that we’ve taken the liberty of printing on plastic for you. If you don’t pay us for them, you’re essentially raping us. Baby seals are cute, y’all!”