Tuesday, August 22, 2006

What's in a name?

The spam has been getting worse lately but even so, it's almost entertaining the names of the purported senders. I've got e-mail from:
Herewith Mickens (must be an Amish chap, brother of Theregoes Prudence Verily)
Hitachi Maxtor (new merger, I suppose though as a person Apple Lenovo sounds more like a pop star)
the Fifth Third Bank (and why not the Last Two Hundred and Sixty-second Bank?)
Neal Ayala (does he know who the Ayalas are in the Philippines?)
Hippolyta Mastrangelo (must be sister to Archimedes Eureka)
Catahecassa Schrick (who is friend to Catchupwithyalater Smith)
fydaJUrikzcp Tarrancer (must be a Polish first name)
Cummings (can't be from ee, this guy uses upper case)

I used to think the most fun job would be to invent names for lipstick and nail polish colours. Now I think it must be to invent names for spammers.

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