How dumb do they think we are?
The “names” used by the senders of a number of spams that I’ve received in the past couple months:
“Nouakchott M. Calories”
“Hedge C. Paramedicals”
“Plaudits R. Jarring”
“Licks C. Shenandoah”
“Individuality P. Dolefuller”
“Overplays S. Maryellen”
“Ungainlier Q. Math”
“Preachy P. Concatenate”
And more recently, I received a junk e-mail from an “Ophthalmologists Q. Stuccoing”.
Really… who do they think they’re fooling? Sure, they might be able to bypass Bayesian filters that way, but it’s rather hard for a human to be fooled by these ridiculously fake names.
And yes, many others have been hit by this particular spam meme; see, for instance, this blog comment thread that I stumbled across today…