{"id":876,"date":"2009-12-08T08:32:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T13:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/876"},"modified":"2009-12-08T08:32:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T13:32:27","slug":"how-to-make-your-e-mail-look-like-spam-221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/876","title":{"rendered":"How to make your e-mail look like Spam, #221"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an e-mail I received this morning, a <strong>legitimate<\/strong> e-mail:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/image1.png\" width=\"314\" height=\"63\" \/>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravel Planner Email\u201d, from \u201cAirlines\u201d<\/p>\n<p>????<\/p>\n<p>Huh?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re planning a brief vacation that requires a bit of air travel, so before I hit delete, I paused to see what the spam e-mail said \u2013 and then realized it was not spam at all.<\/p>\n<p>Note to programmers: \u2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aw heck<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Just stop doing stupid anti-human stuff.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an e-mail I received this morning, a legitimate e-mail: &#160; \u201cTravel Planner Email\u201d, from \u201cAirlines\u201d ???? Huh? We\u2019re planning a brief vacation that requires a bit of air travel, so before I hit delete, I paused to see what the spam e-mail said \u2013 and then realized it was not spam at all. Note [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-e8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":554,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/554","url_meta":{"origin":876,"position":0},"title":"Finally, online booking for airline tickets&#8230;","date":"September 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It was nice of them to attach the flight ticket and the Invoice in a zip file attachment! :) \u00a0 UPDATE: This e-mail was from a SPAM message. I posted it because I thought it was funny.\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Humor&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"image","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/image24.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":46,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/46","url_meta":{"origin":876,"position":1},"title":"Spam makes me laugh some days","date":"April 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Some spam makes it by the various spam filters I have in place. Occasionally, one grabs my attention as obvious spam, but still I open and scan it. Here's one that I found funny: Hi to you USA Embassy! 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I notified them via their contact info a few days ago and never heard back -- nor was it fixed.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Software&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/128","url_meta":{"origin":876,"position":4},"title":"Technical Interview Question Series Starting","date":"April 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm going to begin posting weekly a technical interview question. Generally, each question should be solvable in less than 30 minutes time. Often, much less. 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Just move along if you\u2019re not interested. :-) Here\u2019s the support e-mail I just sent Nest (via their online contact form) (Dec. 31, 2011, 9:15am): We have three Nest thermostats in our\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}