I’ve been getting some really strange spam lately. Almost all of it is coming to a certain email address. My web host’s spam filters used to catch almost all of the spam for it, but all at once it started letting a lot slip through. So I end up skimming what gets through, partly to make sure it isn’t actually legit and partly out of curiosity.

I’ve been getting an increasing amount of spam in German. I did a search on German spam, and all I found was some information about an outbreak from 3 or 4 years ago that was related to Neo-Nazi political agendas. That’s not the case here. I know virtually no German, but there are references to prescription meds such as Viagra and Cialis. Weird.

I also got one today that particularly intrigued me. The subject read “best” and the body said nothing except “your life is crap.” No images, no attachments, no links. I might have been offended if it hadn’t come to an email address that I inherited from the former owner of one of my websites and have never publicized.

I just don’t get the point of a lot of the spam I’ve seen. Even that which seeks to sell stuff perplexes me. Do people actually follow the links in these emails and buy stuff? I never have, and never will. If I do happen to see something in a spam email that I can’t live without, I’ll go search for it elsewhere.