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Sunday, March 05, 2006 

Clogging inboxes everywhere

Every so often spam throws up something interesting in its increasingly futile attempt to get past gmail's filters. For example, today I have an email with the subject line "afraid to answer the phone", which started thusly:

teenagers, for religion is not always an easy subject. Teens sometimes feel
that not all information . she had always taken care of before."I'm too old
to keep a dog," (20) she says to the dogcatcher as he is leaving with a
brown fice that showed


That's the first paragraph in total, with nothing added/removed/changed. Unfortunately from there it moves into a fairly basic and comprehensible spam about bogus debt relief. I was enjoying this first bit, though.



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