No, this isn't the Spam I'm talking about
Sometimes spam is hilarious.
We've all had to deal with a variety of unwanted ads, offers, and bogus emails since the inception and popularity of the internet. Some email services, like the one I use, allow users to set high security for their email so mail from people on their contact list is allowed to enter the inbox. The rest get sent away to a "suspect email folder" for review. Just looking at the list of those suspected emails is dismaying.
Most of it's crap - an ever increasing pile of it since a new email domain (tmail.com) came on board a few months ago. It's all pretty much the same, too. Big time promises of cheap penis pills demonstrate that they don't have a clue about who they're sending their ad to (lady puddytats have no need of penis pills).
Or offers of credit card monitoring, credit scores, miracle cures, cheap printer ink, life insurance, gift card offers, notices that "you've won" a contest you never entered, along with a plethora of requests for donations from groups you can never get away from after you e-signed one of their petitions or politicians/groups you donated a few bucks to years ago. Trying to get off one of those email lists is like trying to leave Hotel California (you can check in, but you can never leave no matter how hard you try).
You've Got Spam!
One of the funny ones I got today offered training to become a Licensed Practical Nurse. Clearly not a clue who they sent that one to either. If I thought it was legit and not fraudulent, I might think about informing them that I got my Bachelors Degree in Nursing in 1973 and I'm still a Registered Nurse.
On the bright side, though, no more Nigerian Princes offering to share their money with you. Either they've discovered that we're "on" to them or they've finally figured out how to get their hands on their vast fortune without our help.
But that's not the only kind of spam we have to put up with these days. We've got all kinds of spam right here on Daily Kos and a lot of it shouldn't be missed. Follow me below the cheese curl for more.
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I love to use this in my Spam Diary comments.
Oh, baby, do we get spammed on Daily Kos!
Spam comments are quickly plastered into as many diaries as a brand new shiny spammer can manage before the robot twins Scoop and Despaminate descend upon them carrying their nice parting gift of BOJO. We've all seen them here and there offering work at home schemes or some other fraudulent thing or another. Comment spammers don't last long, fortunately, but some of them do manage to post an amazing number of them before robo-bojo sets in.
Unfortunately, some actual, real, innocent first time commenters get robo-bojo, too, if their very first comment contains a link (first comment with a link triggers Scoop and Despaminator to seek out and destroy). A quick trip to the Help Desk and submission of a trouble ticket is all that's necessary to restore a genuine user to full life at Daily Kos. So, if you see a real user get HRs from the robots for a legitimate comment, please take a minute to submit the error to the Help Desk. Consider me patting you on the back when you do.
The other spam are Spam Diaries which have proliferated here since there's no longer a waiting period before a new user can post a diary and because Daily Kos is a such a high traffic site. And it's these spam diaries I want to draw to your attention.
I cannot recommend more highly that you try to visit the Spam Diaries before they get deleted. The comment threads are hilarious. Even when the spam diaries are not in English and it's difficult to have fun with the content, comedy still ensues with rock crusher threads and pictures of spam.
I've even recommended one of those snarky comments to Top Comments. It was from a spam diary offering psychic services:
then I guess you can see the HRs coming your way
h/t entlord
And in last night's Top Comments, not one, but TWO comments from a spam diary were submitted (did I start a trend?).
Now that's live entertainment.
To find them for yourself, check hidden comments for tip jars (spammers never bother to personalize a Tip Jar) or search for the tag "spam". They don't last long because the Help Desk deletes them pretty fast, but while they're around, the comment threads will bring you a smile if not send you rolling on the floor with laughter.
I almost wish the diaries hung around a while longer because the threads in the comments are just comedy gold. Once deleted, however, you cannot access the comments or reply to any existing comment.
Best hunting time: late at night into the early morning. Most diary spammers are night owls.
Enjoy.
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