ascii art

Now it is in spam

[willybfriendly]

Well, this one cracked me up. BIG BOLD BLOCK LETTERS made up the entire message - all plain text, all good old fashioned ascii art.

I bet to most spamm blockers it looked like a bunch of random letters.

The creativity of these folks really is being wasted.

WBF

[mattglet]

Too funny... here at work, we have a SOTD (spam of the day) contest. I broke out my ASCII art email the other day, and won the day.

My Office 2003 junk mail filter never touched it. It was a brilliant email. I was actually amazed by it.

[timchuma]

Spam is having to become so convoluted to get through mail filters that you can't even tell what it is trying to sell sometimes.

Don't the companies even read the mail they send out?

Thanks.

[krieves]

I've been getting SPAM that starts off with 8-10 lines of random words. Then there's a solicitation for "l ow i nterest ra te m ort gages". And finally more lines of random words at the end.

Does anyone really think to themselves "wow, this is a good deal. I better replay to this message"?