Database lingo makes it to a spam subject line

Karen Lopez - listmistress@Infoadvisors.com — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:56:00 GMT

Spam (unsolicited, unwanted e-mail) has become a huge problem. Our mail server here at InfoAdvisors is bombarded with unwanted mail -- and most of it concerns scams. We do use good spam fighting software which reports that 87% of the mail that hits our server is known spam.

Today, while checking my filtered mail, I came across on piece that shows that the spammers are getting smarter or luckier:

From: Agelina K Cantrell

To: *******

Subject: or ifyour database normalizesdata differently from

Date: Thu 25 Jan 2007 02:27:59 AM MST

Status: Message quarantined by Spam module (score 99.9%)

Of course, I'm deleting the spam. I Googled the phrase above and found it in a Java-related blog.

So either the spammer knows that I would open a mail with those words, or he just got lucky. Which do you think it is?

Karen Lopez: Musings on Data, Process, and Architecture

Database lingo makes it to a spam subject line