Nom De Spam
Originally uploaded by blind sam.

I've got my mail set up IMAP stylee at work and at home, at home using mail.app and at work on thunderbird. I combed through the mail today just in case my nigerian di3taTor friend has gotten a great deal on rem0rtag1ng my vi8gra. I've been waiting for some time for his reply, so I thought that I better check out the junk mail. just in case.

What I found instead is that spam mailers have been studying absurd theatre and maybe a little Post Modernism and are now coming out with just fantasticly baroque names replete with art gallery irony. I took a selection from the first page, and although they may acuse me of a poor distorted sample, here are the top five in reverse order:

5. Jame J. Subia
4. Boozer T. Monrovia
3. Falseness V. Dependent
2.Cashmere S. Yachtsmen
and
1. Congruity J. Crossbreeding

I think that the point of the names in spam used to be to convince you that might know these people. But, now that we are a little more aware they've become an art form in themselves.