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I am becoming increasingly fond of the way that spam filters can't catch emails because of the wierd use of language in them.

Take this to my Hotmail account this morning:

Subject: water sports action

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.

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<snip> Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.To end this <snip>
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.Just do what you do best.The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

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Any one care to share any examples?

i haven't had one of those sneak through claranet's borderscout filter service yet (i have it set to the highest setting), it's very good, i have few false positives (less than one a week on avarage)

In my Hotmail Junk Box I always get:

"Enlarge your Penis" or "Free Viargra" emails all the time for some strange reason.

The ones that get through have no subject & are blank when you open them although they have an attachment, (I never open the attachments).

Now and again, I will go into Faceparty and to check to see if I'm lucky enough to receive any messages from peeps out there. Most of the time, all I get is emails from the "administrator" which normally gets deleted straight away as there's nothing worth of note in there. However one of the subjects was called Pope Idol so I became curious to find out what was inside.

Now folks, this is real for sure. There is no doctoring involved but it begs the question how they got away with this. Obviously someone is trying to be FaceParty Administrator but it's good for a laugh anyway...

I got one of those "I'm Blah from Blahland. I have access to the bank account of a deceased person who was a multi millionare. I need to get the money out of the country. I need your help in doing this, etc etc" scam emails. I wish I'd kept it since it greatly amused me. I was just flabbergasted as to how anyone with any sense actually falls for those sorts of things.

russnet wrote:Now and again, I will go into Faceparty and to check to see if I'm lucky enough to receive any messages from peeps out there. Most of the time, all I get is emails from the "administrator" which normally gets deleted straight away as there's nothing worth of note in there. However one of the subjects was called Pope Idol so I became curious to find out what was inside.

Now folks, this is real for sure. There is no doctoring involved but it begs the question how they got away with this. Obviously someone is trying to be FaceParty Administrator but it's good for a laugh anyway...

I believe you!..
I got the exact same message myself.

I keep getting emails from American companies selling (medicinal) drugs! Hell, the chemist is just down the road, FFS!

Not really spam email, but the dodgy Indians that have started to speak to me on ICQ ages ago, like "Hello James. I am [twatty name]. Are you my friend?" then it goes on with convorsation about his bad country and his education, just to end up with "Can you send me a visa please?"