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by Ivy on August 29, 2006

A new breed of spam hit my mail box. They aren't the usual mails that claim they'll help solve your medical problems or win a lot of money. Not at all: they contain excerpts from famous books. I could read texts from Stendhal, Galsworthy and they are very good.
At the end there's, like in any good spam message, an offer to buy stock. This way, spammers think, they both contribute to your knowledge base as well as your portfolio.
As commenters to this post noticed, this is just a variation of a theme, since some years ago similar e-mails, but with Bible quotes, hit people's mailboxes.
Permalink: Project Gutenberg spam
Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/34667
Mr Wong
Vote for Project Gutenberg spam:
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Rating: 8.00 out of 2 vote(s) cast.
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Response from:
Anita Campbell
(09/06/06 3:27am)
Response from:
Ivy
(09/06/06 9:05am)
Well. maybe spammers all around the world have decided to make each and every person on the globe, who posseses an e-mail address, read at least one of the classics of literature. Nah.
Response from:
Double Hamster on The Rocks
I'm not a fan of Nietzsche, and I dislike Family Circus, but I find Nietzsche Family Circus strangely appealing and scattershot. Along these lines, I've also identified an entire species of spam that pulls filler text from project Gutenberg. I...
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I have received some of this and wondered why they send it.