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Friday, December 12, 2003 
Spam names 
I've been keeping a list of the most bizarre or amusing fake names I'm getting spam from; today I noticed a trend away from the "Random Foreign Name" paradigm—which looks as if they chose a first name from a phone book in, say, Antwerp, and a last name from one in Ulan-Bator—to a new "Random Slightly Obscure English Word" one. Which is certainly amusing, but I'm a bit disappointed; what, you ran out of phone books and languages?

But anyway, here's what I've collected since December 4th:
  • almengor freiheit

  • torset mcclafferty

  • Lidia Guerra

  • stiehm zacarias

  • andrew niheu

  • gammons birdine

  • swoopes doop

  • Curring L. Cessna

  • Estelle Pham

  • Porfirio Mccauley

  • Abdul Swift

  • Showman P. Scrawl

  • Earline Joseph

  • Foothold G. Heuristic

You gotta give 'em credit for digging up "Heuristic," but as bizarre names go, I haven't heard anything better than "Porfirio." Who wouldn't want to have a name that sounds remarkably like that of the horrible hereditary disease that caused the infamous madness of George III?

[ at 12:57 PM • by Abby • permalink •   ]


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