Saturday, February 06, 2016
An amusing spam email that certainly wins the “Nice Attempt To Bypass Spam Filtering Programs” Award
- From
- henry thomas <henrythomas44@hotmail.com>
- To
- undisclosed recipients: ;
- Subject
- Hello, I'm Henry Thomas 22 years old boy,I humbly write to solicit for your partnership and assistance in transferring and investing of my inherited fund which is USD$8.3.M US Dollars from my late father who died during the crisis in my country.Please I need your urgent assistant, contact for more information on how you are going to receive the total fund for an inverstment in your country and also assist me to join you to continue my education as well,I wait your reply. Mr Henry Thomas
- Date
- Sat, 6 Feb 2016 20:19:32 +0900 (JST)
That's it. That's the entire email message. Either “henry thomas” confused the subject line entry field for the email entry field, or this is a novel attempt to avoid content filtering of email for spam analysis.
I'm almost tempted to reply to him in the subject line to see if he does likewise, and thus, we carry out an entire email conversation via empty emails and overly long and verbose subject lines.
Penn & Teller
Bunny and I went to see Penn & Teller live at the Kravis Center for Performing Arts.
We both had a good time watching them from the nosebleed section,
despite having already seen most of their act on television and YouTube
(the only new thing we saw was Penn juggling fire batons (pretty easy according to Penn) and broken wine bottles
(which is hard,
given they're different weights and,
well,
wrist-slittingly sharp)).
We also saw them deal with victims volunteers who,
shall we say,
weren't quite up to speed
(“No, keep your arm up … no, up! Hold it here! No … here!”).
The one trick I was hoping to see was their famous bullet catch, but alas, they did not do that trick. They did, however, allow one person in the audience to have their smart phone video record disappearing and reappearing in a dead fish. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see the resulting video, so we still have no idea how that trick was done.
Oh wait …
