What are they thinking!?

Skip's Diary of spam

I want to start this off by stating that I have been active on the internet for for over twelve years, and in all that time I have never bought any product or service that came to my attention through UCE (unsolicited commercal email). Yet I receive a vast variety of different offers on a weekly basis. I have decided to use this page to record that influx.

August 18-19, 2002

From the trash heap.

Office Email

Insurance(1), Porn(1), Spam for spammers(1),

Personal Email None.

I guess Spammers take the weekend off.

August 19, 2002

From the trash heap.

Office Email

Car Loan(2), Cell Phone(2), Contact Lenses(1), Credit Card(3), Extended Warrantees(2), Financial assistance(1), Fraud(3), Gadgets(1), Gambling(1), Home Business(3), Investment Advice(1), Porn(3), Printer Supplies(3), Software(2), Spam for spammers(2),

August 20, 2002

From the trash heap.

Office Email

Car Loan(1), Credit Card(1), Charity(1) Financial assistance(2), Fraud(6), Gadgets(1), Home Business(2), Home Improvement(2), Insurance(1), Investment Advice(2), Porn(2), Printer Supplies(3), Snake Oil(1), Software(3), Spam for spammers(2).

August 21, 2002

From the trash heap.

Office Email

Diet(2), Fraud(One Nigerian letter)(3), Gadgets(4), Porn, Financial Assistance(6), Cosmetics, Software(4), Vacation, Printer Supplies (in spanish), Gambling.

Interesting item of the day: Cosmetics! I am a male geek in his thirties, why do I get ads for cosmetics?

August 22, 2002

First day to do this. I think I will go through my trash heap for the past week and add more above.

Office Email

Porn(3), DVD cloning tools, Financial assistance(4), CD Club, Diet(2), Home Business(2), Fraud, Insurance, Trivia contest, software(2), gadgets(2), Domain Registration, Pet supplies, Gambling, Bowel Cleaning.

Pretty typical set, except for that last one. Bowel Cleaning?! I am getting spam offering to ream out my ass?! Is there really enough of a market for this ... No, I don't want to think about it. Sigh.

August 22, 2002

Office Email

Boats(1), Bowel Cleaning(1), CD Club(1), Diet(2), Discounts(1), Domain Registration(1), Financial assistance(4), Fraud(3), Gadgets(1), Home Business(2), Insurance(1), Investment Advice(2), Pet Supplies(1), Porn(3), Software(4), Vacation(1).

August 23, 2002

Office Email

Business Cards(1), Diet(1), Extended Warrantees(2), Financial assistance(3), Fraud(10), Gadgets(4), Gambling(2), Home Business(3), Insurance(1), Investment Advice(1), Lunar Real Estate(1), Porn(2), Printer Supplies(3), Software(2), Spam for spammers(1).

Today's interesting item is lunar real estate. I don't know what to say.

August 24, 2002

Office Email

Cell Phone(1), Domain Registration(1), Financial assistance(2), Fraud(3), Gambling(4), Home Business(2), Insurance(1), Investment Advice(2), Porn(1), Software(1), Spam for spammers(1), Tools for Criminals(1), Vacation(1).

August 25, 2002

Office Email

Diet(2), Financial assistance(2), Fraud(5), Gadgets(2), Gambling(1), Home Business(1), Insurance(1), Long Distance(1), Printer Supplies(1), Software(1), Spam for spammers(3), Vacation(1).

August 26, 2002

Office Email

Cell Phone(2), Fraud(5), Gambling(1), Home Business(2), Insurance(2), Investment Advice(1), Porn(3), Printer Supplies(1), Software(2), Spam for spammers(0), Tools for Criminals(2),

August 27, 2002

Office Email

Boats(0), Bowel Cleaning(0), Breast Enhancment(1), Business Cards(0), CD Club(1), Car Loan(0), Cell Phone(1), Contact Lenses(0), Cosmetics(0), Credit Card(0), Charity(0) Diet(2), Discounts(0), Domain Registration(0), Extended Warrantees(1), Financial assistance(3), Fraud(5), Gadgets(2), Gambling(1), Home Business(1), Home Improvement(0), Insurance(1), Investment Advice(0), Long Distance(0), Lunar Real Estate(0), Merchandise(2), Pet Supplies(0), Porn(1), Printer Supplies(0), Snake Oil(0), Software(1), Spam for spammers(0), Tools for Criminals(2), Vacation(0),