{"id":352,"date":"2008-02-23T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T18:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomideas.net\/?p=352"},"modified":"2008-02-23T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T18:49:09","slug":"spam-is-getting-more-and-more-abstract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Spam is getting more and more abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to avoid spam filters, spam mail is getting more and more abstract. I&#8217;m getting things like &#8220;make your machine run better&#8221;, which confused me the first time I saw it, as it sounded like it was pushing computer hardware upgrades at first glance.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if this trend continues, pretty soon they&#8217;ll start saying things like &#8220;Y your X in the Z!&#8221; That would be awesome.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t always work well, though. For instance, I just got an email from a diploma mill stating &#8220;Bachel0rs, mast3rs, MBA, or D0ctorate&#8221;. Anyone who is stupid enough to respond to an email that&#8217;s afraid to print the word &#8220;Bachelors&#8221; in full deserves what he gets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to avoid spam filters, spam mail is getting more and more abstract. I&#8217;m getting things like &#8220;make your machine run better&#8221;, which confused me the first time I saw it, as it sounded like it was pushing computer hardware upgrades at first glance. Anyway, if this trend continues, pretty soon they&#8217;ll start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}