Spam Tracking…

For whatever reason I have been keeping tabs on the spam that just keeps on coming and coming. It’s hard not to notice when the same thing gets sent to you repeatedly and I thought it would prove (at least minimally) interesting to report what’s hot in spam. I’d say that in a given day I receive an average of close to 100 spam emails across the 5 email accounts (not including hotmail, yahoo or aol which are totally out of control!) I keep active. Apple’s Mail.app catches about 95% of them and sorts them to my Junk folder for me to scan before I delete.

This list is far from complete and thanks to the spam community can and will continue to grow. I’ve excluded the usual suspects of porn, Nigerian scams, multi-level marketing schemes, 10 Million email addresses and penis enlargement solutions.

The hot subject lines of the week seem to be:

• This Year’s Hottest Gift! – R/C Mini-Racer – JUST $19.99
• Homer Simpson Talking Bottle Opener
• Get Your Own Personal LIE Detector!
• High quality, full-color business or personal cards FREE!
• You’ve Won – Claim Your Elvis Monopoly Set and More!
• Flat Hose – As Seen on TV!
• messages from someone@borg.com
• ADV: Lowest Life Insurance Rates – Free Quote…
• FAILED DELIVERY (nothing like a fake error message)
• RE: Your Account Status
• American Express want to Pay You Up to 5%……

The main sending offenders seem to revolve around the same choice few domains…

• optin-offers.net – my favorite!
• azogle.com
• lessthanyouthought.com
• clickformail.com
• superdealnow.com
• dealsweeps.faxtors.net
• your-info.cc
• free-gift-offers.com
• e-clk.com
• greatfamilyoffers.com

There are many, many more.