# Share your bizarre spam.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-bizarre-spam/221321>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 27, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-bizarre-spam/221321 "2003-12-27T22:49:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-bizarre-spam/221321/21 "2003-12-29T06:42:34Z")

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Septic tanks. There was a period of about a month that all I got was spam encouraging me to go out and buy a septic tank. I have never lived anywhere in my life where a septic tank would prove useful. How many people could possibly be purchasing septic tanks through spammed emails?

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**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-bizarre-spam/221321/22 "2003-12-29T07:17:24Z")

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I’ve been repeatedly infected with the js/noclose virus. For those that don’t know it’s a virus that creates a pop up window you can’t close (or is very difficult to close) at random intervals on your desktop. To make matters even more infurating Norton Anti-Virus doesn’t consider it a virus and doesn’t do anything to stop it. (if you go to their website it says some crap about it’s not a virus b/c it’s payload doesn’t damage your computer at all. Grrrr)

Anyway what is the junk the pop-ups advertise? Spam Blocking Software. Can something be ironic and completely stupid at the same time? It’s like saying “Want us to stop pissing you off? Pay up.” Makes me think the mob made this virus.

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**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-bizarre-spam/221321/23 "2003-12-29T08:48:05Z")

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> [@](#):
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> The true price of fine art!  
> Which worldwide data bank can provide you with 1,200 auction records for Edgar Degas , as well as the price levels and indices, biography, signatures, and works in upcoming auctions?
> 
> Degas Sculptures  
> October 11, 2003-January 4, 2004, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto  
> Degas Sculptures  
> October 18, 2003-January 18, 2004, Legion of Honor, San Francisco CA  
> Renoir, Gauguin, Degas… Schätze der Sammlung Ordrupgaard, Kopenhagen  
> October 11, 2003-February 8, 2004, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart  
> El Greco to Picasso from the Phillips collection  
> October 4, 2003-January 4, 2004, Denver Art Museum, Denver CO  
> A private passion : 19th century paintings and drawings from the Greenville L. Winthrop collection, Harvard University Art Museums  
> October 23, 2003-January 11, 2004, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY  
> Masterpieces of 19th Century Western Art  
> February 22, 2004-May 16, 2004, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
> 
> Price index for Edgar Degas  
> Base year 1997 (for all categories)

… and so on in the same vein…

I have no idea where it comes from, but I am happy to see that I get a better class of spam than the rest of you _hoi polloi_.

🙂 Grim  
[sup]Just deleted 80+ “Cum see P4ris H1lt0n in action”-type spams[/sup]

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