What Can You Learn From The Spammers?

by John Taylor

Posted: 16 years ago 21 replies

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Here are a few subject lines from this morning's in-box..

Be Better Than Average, Not Just Average
You Should Feel Excited About This
Open A New Page In Your Life
What They Don't Want You To Know

Whoever sent those spam mails clearly has some marketing
smarts.

This guy however..

Your email address has won you 1,925,567.00 British Pound.

I know for a fact that my email address has maxed out its
credit card and couldn't even affors to buy a ticket!

So, don't just delete those spam emails - see if there are any
subjects with potential first.

John

#learn #spammers

Steve Taylor 16 years ago

Yeah John,
There's some good spam lines that come into my in-box as well.

I like the one you quoted...Turn a new page in your life.

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Originally Posted by John Taylor

Here are a few subject lines from this morning's in-box..

Be Better Than Average, Not Just Average
You Should Feel Excited About This
Open A New Page In Your Life
What They Don't Want You To Know

Whoever sent those spam mails clearly has some marketing
smarts.

This guy however..

Your email address has won you 1,925,567.00 British Pound.

I know for a fact that my email address has maxed out its
credit card and couldn't even affors to buy a ticket!

So, don't just delete those spam emails - see if there are any
subjects with potential first.

John

You must be being targeted by a different class of spammer John.
Most of the junk I get is from twits that can't even spell.

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VegasVince

16 years ago

John...you get some classy spam at least.

I get stuff like.....

1. FBI CIA needs you to call us now or you will.......

2 We are watching you..right now and.....

3 Hey Vince...your bank account has been hacked... Note: (if it wasn't hacked...it will be when I log in)

4.Your Ex Wife's lawyer might be planning.....

5. Jason Moffatt and your girlfriend were at Motel 6 and.....

6. That porn site you watched last night was sent to your mothe..........

7. That burning sensation you feel in your crotch area is due to .....

8. That bag of dope you flushed in 86?.....we found it..........

9. 27 ways to find the hooker of your dreams and.......

etc. etc.

That's about the sum of what I get in my box......most of which I open cuz I'd hate for one of those examples above to be the real deal. That's the thought that wakes me up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat.

So yeah...I pick up a lot of trojan viruses....but at least I have peace of mind. Cuz one day..that so-called spam..is gonna be a real email...and I'm gonna be ready. And then, I'm gonna laugh at you'se spam haters for mockin' me.

In anycase, it often amazes me that some of the worst smammers out there are among the best copywriters...cuz they are forced to write shit that literally contains less words then a good old fasioned classified ad.

I should do a WSO someday...and try and reach these people....and turn their lives around......and use their power for good not evil....

But I'd have to spam them back to reach them?

xxx Vegas Vince

Some publicity nut is going to jail for smamming the CEO of SPAM.....believe it or not. Smam...was poor mans bacon in my neighborhood growin' up.

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Kim Standerline

16 years ago

Originally Posted by VegasVince

Isn't it depressing when the spammers headlines armore interesting than your own.

I like Vinnies versions better

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VegasVince 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Kim Standerline

Isn't it depressing when the spammers headlines armore interesting than your own.

I like Vinnies versions better

Thanks Kimmy....I'd spam you'se any day of the week...cuz you're good people.

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- rosetrees 16 years ago
  
  Goodness - my spam topics need a boost. From my inbox this morning:
  *Which Walkers crisps (sic) is your favourite? Vote now
  *Win Complementary laser eye surgery
  *The new way to eliminate wrinkles - permanently
  *Receive 4 annual passes to Alton Towers
  *MacBook Air laptop pending
  
  I get the same ones every day.
  
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  John Taylor 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by rosetrees
  
  *Win Complementary laser eye surgery
  
  Hey, I want some of that! Wouldn't be great if
  your laser eye surgery said complimentary things
  like.. "Wow, you're so gorgeous" or "Hey, you look
  great this morning"
  
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  Steven Wagenheim 16 years ago
  
  A lot of spammers have excellent copywriting skills, which makes it even the
  more sad that they don't put their skills to better use.
  
  I teach all my people to open up their spam emails to get copywriting ideas
  from them. I do and some of them are killer.
  
  Maybe I should thank my local spammer for the education.
  
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  Ricter 16 years ago
  
  Wouldn't surprise me in the least if some spammers are learning their trade right here. There are a lot more people lurking than posting.
  
  I was once horrified to learn that one of my students was using his new skills to commit armed robberies.
  
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  peteinoz 16 years ago
  
  nice post John,
  
  Big Spammers do spend time and money on researching what converts the best.. or they'd go out of business, like anyone else..
  
  over the years Ive found great niches by opening Outlook Express
  
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  RobinSkeen 16 years ago
  
  I must be the prime target for those member enhancement e-mails. I suppose they think I'm a guy because of my name. :rolleyes:
  
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  Richard Tunnah 16 years ago
  
  I just got 'get an extra 4 inches!' - not sure what I learnt from that?! [:I]
  
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  John Taylor 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by RobinSkeen
  
  I must be the prime target for those member enhancement e-mails. I suppose they think I'm a guy because of my name. :rolleyes:
  
  Is Skeen a guys name? :rolleyes:
  
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  Joseph Then 16 years ago
  
  And a lot of spammers thinks that we guys have small pen*s
  
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  Phil Jacobson 16 years ago
  
  I occasionally open my SPAM box in gmail for a few laughs.
  
  Some of those headings make for light entertainment.
  
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  Mark McWilliams 16 years ago
  
  How come it's always me that gets the boring SPAM emails?!
  
  Tell us how you do it John, I mean, each day of the week I delete around 100 emails each and every day yet none of them even make me smile!
  
  I have had some spammers make fun of my name though!... (Grr)
  
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  Noah Fleming 16 years ago
  
  I keep getting this one lately and I have to admit the first time I opened it
  
  "We have kidnapped your baby."
  
  I dont have a baby but I was like, what the heck?
  
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  MelanieM 16 years ago
  
  The ONLY spam I get has to do with a part of the anatomy I don't have. I don't think it matters what your name is. They are desperately fishing for men with small... egos.
  
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  Ricter 16 years ago
  
  One thing I did learn from spammers, or rather because of them, is that the new MS Live Mail allows you to block whole domains, which solves the problem of randomly generated names @ domains defeating my name by name blocking. It wouldn't let me block @yahoo.com, which is where 90% of the spam comes from, but it did let me create a message rule to do that.
  
  In combination with my safe list, which acts as a gatekeeper, I've got spam down to about 1 email per WEEK, vs. the 50 per day I was getting.
  
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  RobinSkeen 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by John Taylor
  
  Is Skeen a guys name? :rolleyes:
  
  John
  
  Smarty pants. LOL.
  
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  Thomas 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Ricter
  
  I was once horrified to learn that one of my students was using his new skills to commit armed robberies.
  
  What do you teach?
  
  Safe cracking?
  
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Chris Lockwood 16 years ago

The spam I get isn't so creative. Almost all of it I can instantly recognize as spam based on the subject line or sender, which means they've failed if they couldn't get me to open the message.

The spams I'm most likely to open are the ones that could be from customers:
"help me"
"money back guarantee"
"please answer"
and so on.

My favorite are the fake news events, like "Tom Cruise killed in car crash", which I think would be all over the news.
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