...according to the spam I receive.  I've been getting "Dexter Dew" spam for 
about 4-5 years now.  I'm also "Patricia Gardner", but to a much smaller 
extent.  I made a rule to automatically send anything with those names 
directly to my spam folder, so it's not all that much of a nuisance, less 
than regular spam, actually.

Mostly, I think it's funny.  Someone, I'm sure, scammed the spammers.  "We 
not only have email addresses, but we have names to go with them!"  Yes, 
they do.  No, they aren't the right names.

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Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:

> Mostly, I think it's funny.  Someone, I'm sure, scammed the spammers.  "We 
> not only have email addresses, but we have names to go with them!"  Yes, 
> they do.  No, they aren't the right names. 

It's more likely to get past anti-spam systems. Nothing like using a 
plausible real-world name as the recipient's name. There are probably 
anti-spam systems that automatically trap mail with no real person name.

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Invisible wrote:
> Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:
> 
>> Mostly, I think it's funny.  Someone, I'm sure, scammed the spammers. 
>> "We
>> not only have email addresses, but we have names to go with them!"  Yes,
>> they do.  No, they aren't the right names.
> 
> It's more likely to get past anti-spam systems. Nothing like using a
> plausible real-world name as the recipient's name. There are probably
> anti-spam systems that automatically trap mail with no real person name.

Yes, and that's why you get tons of spam with random real names. But 
consistently getting spam with the same and wrong real name? That's strange.

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>> It's more likely to get past anti-spam systems. Nothing like using a
>> plausible real-world name as the recipient's name. There are probably
>> anti-spam systems that automatically trap mail with no real person name.
> 
> Yes, and that's why you get tons of spam with random real names. But 
> consistently getting spam with the same and wrong real name? That's strange.

Probably one spammer who uses only a single real name for whatever reason...

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"Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecmo> wrote in message 
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> ...according to the spam I receive.  I've been getting "Dexter Dew" spam 
> for about 4-5 years now.  I'm also "Patricia Gardner", but to a much 
> smaller extent.  I made a rule to automatically send anything with those 
> names directly to my spam folder, so it's not all that much of a nuisance, 
> less than regular spam, actually.
>
> Mostly, I think it's funny.  Someone, I'm sure, scammed the spammers.  "We 
> not only have email addresses, but we have names to go with them!"  Yes, 
> they do.  No, they aren't the right names.
>

Both "Dexter Dew" and "Fred Drew" (and variations on that theme, like "Dex 
Drew") are names that were commonly used by a salesperson I used to work 
with about twenty years ago. He'd use them when he would demonstrate 
software; he'd type the names at the keyboard when the demo called for 
entering a customer name on a sales order, for example.

I asked him why he always used those names, and he pointed out that they 
could both be easily typed by one hand, since all of the characters are 
clustered together on one side of a QWERTY keyboard. How odd to see it 
again.

--
Jack

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Invisible wrote:
> Probably one spammer who uses only a single real name for whatever 
> reason...

I haven't figured out why I get email with [SPAM] in the header followed by 
a paragraph of gibberish and no actual prose or attachment or anything that 
might actually be worthwhile to the spammer to deliver.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
   much longer being almost empty than almost full.

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"Captain Jack" <Cap### [at] comcastnet> wrote in message 
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>
> Both "Dexter Dew" and "Fred Drew" (and variations on that theme, like "Dex 
> Drew") are names that were commonly used by a salesperson I used to work 
> with about twenty years ago. He'd use them when he would demonstrate 
> software; he'd type the names at the keyboard when the demo called for 
> entering a customer name on a sales order, for example.
>
> I asked him why he always used those names, and he pointed out that they 
> could both be easily typed by one hand, since all of the characters are 
> clustered together on one side of a QWERTY keyboard. How odd to see it 
> again.
>

LOL!  I wonder if that's somehow related.  Not that he used my email 
address, but if "Dexter Dew" ends up somewhere on the Web, and they simply 
gathered names from the Web...  Who knows...

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Captain Jack wrote:

> Both "Dexter Dew" and "Fred Drew" (and variations on that theme, like "Dex 
> Drew") are names that were commonly used by a salesperson I used to work 
> with about twenty years ago. He'd use them when he would demonstrate 
> software; he'd type the names at the keyboard when the demo called for 
> entering a customer name on a sales order, for example.
> 
> I asked him why he always used those names, and he pointed out that they 
> could both be easily typed by one hand, since all of the characters are 
> clustered together on one side of a QWERTY keyboard. How odd to see it 
> again.

Random fact of the day: British Telecom telex machines have a default 
password of "TX LOL". I have no idea why...

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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> Random fact of the day: British Telecom telex machines have a default 
> password of "TX LOL". I have no idea why...

Stream of consciousness...

The hex string 0xDEADBEEF is used by some software as a debug marker, and by 
some systems to indicate memory that has been cleared of useful data.

--
Jack

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>> Random fact of the day: British Telecom telex machines have a default 
>> password of "TX LOL". I have no idea why...
> 
> Stream of consciousness...
> 
> The hex string 0xDEADBEEF is used by some software as a debug marker, and by 
> some systems to indicate memory that has been cleared of useful data.

Makes perfect sense to me.

The question, of course, is why the hell I'd know about telex machines. ;-)

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