# Weird spam sender names **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 25, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-spam-sender-names/296226 "2005-03-25T17:34:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-spam-sender-names/296226/21 "2005-04-02T18:49:13Z")
I don’t remember the last name, but I got one the other day named Pellagra. Let’s call her Pellagra Q. Jones. The reason this is funny is because once as a child I named a doll Pellagra, until my mother made me change it since it was “wrong” to name a doll after a deficiency disease. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marathon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Marathon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marathon)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-spam-sender-names/296226/22 "2005-04-02T20:46:51Z")
Now they’re getting artsy: **Purcell R. Stravinsky** ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-spam-sender-names/296226/23 "2005-04-02T21:04:20Z")
My favorite: Jugglers K. Shortsighted And also: Evolved L. Demanded Ineluctable V. Ahmad Shari Champagne Riverside O. Forgets Series C. Birdie Please enlighten me. Why exactly do they do this? It just makes them easier to detect and delete. Why not do random “normal” names? ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-spam-sender-names/296226/24 "2005-04-03T00:30:24Z")
I [remarked](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=301110&highlight=spam+fields) on this a few weeks ago, and it sank like a damn rock. I enjoyed Underbrush P. Chumminess. If that doesn’t have W.C. Fields written all over it, I don’t know what does. ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-spam-sender-names/296226/25 "2005-04-05T01:43:57Z")
Woohoo, got another one. **Earthling F. Microscope**. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-spam-sender-names/296226/26 "2005-04-06T13:39:59Z")
This morning: \*\*SeymourDicks T. HanSolo \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-spam-sender-names/296226/27 "2005-04-06T14:01:19Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > \*\*SeymourDicks T. HanSolo \*\* No, no, I was wrong. _That_ is what I’m naming my first child. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-spam-sender-names/296226/28 "2005-04-08T22:20:23Z")
They have a name generator program that signs their spam with different names in an attempt to bypass spam filters. That’s also why you get spam with a wierd paragraph of seeming random text in it. ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-spam-sender-names/296226/29 "2005-04-08T22:30:24Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > They have a name generator program that signs their spam with different names in an attempt to bypass spam filters. > > That’s also why you get spam with a wierd paragraph of seeming random text in it. Yes, well, that’s obvious isn’t it? No human could come up with these names, no matter how deranged they are. ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-spam-sender-names/296226/30 "2005-05-06T15:37:11Z")
Okay, sorry for the resurrect, but I got one this morning that was just too good not to share. **Persecutor O. Humanity** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-spam-sender-names/296226.md?page=1)