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[usernamenumber]

This is the kind of spam that I absolutely do not understand. I mean, I understand about inserting random words at the beginning or end to try and fool filters, but today I got this:

Hellwuo d9eear homdye ow+ner,

Wse have beeen notifiTe{d t\hat your mortgagOue rate iGs fixed at a very high in7te`rest rate. TcaheZrefor$e you ar#e cu4rre1Wnt oveY0rpa#ySing, wd1hich squms-up tbo teQho,us~angds of dWyollars annually .

LuckFily for you we can guaran8tee the loiuwu1est r)ate;s i*n the Ue5.S. (3.50%). So hurry be/cau*se the raQHte forecaMst is n{ot looking goold!

There iBs no o4blMAigatiorns, arPnd it FRE[E

Lock oUsn the 3.5q0%, etven with bXLad credit)!

Great. So now it looks like script kiddies want to help me refinance my house. Seriously, even if I was the kind of person who would reply to spam, who are these people expecting to take this seriously?? Maybe they're counting on the sympathy of those who assume it's a missive from the Society of Epileptic Real-estate Agents (SERA) and envision some poor dedicated soul trying, despite the spasms, to tell the world about lower mortgage rates.

Things don't make sense.

--Brad

Comments

[slyviolet.livejournal.com]

I have for a long time had an image in my head of what 1337 would sound like as a spoken language. It involves a lot of twitching and beeping. Imagining a loan officer at a bank offering to refinance stuff speaking this way is a really fantastic experience. My brain is glittering with amusement.

I think I am too tired to be allowed to write LJ comments right now, the above now looks nigh incoherent... *le sigh*

Re: what??

[slyviolet.livejournal.com]

My sleep-dep caffiene-addled coworkers are all Japanese, so their mutterings are all bizarre local dialect versions of "Nan da naaaaaa.... Mendokusai da na....." Which isn't quite the same. *grin*