I get a lot of spam emails. A lot. Most of them I never see due to my spam filter, but recent email problems meant I had to sort through them by hand. During this dull process I noticed that, as always, spammers disguise their real names with phony ones. But I also noticed that some spammers are getting a bit more creative and apparently using some sort of random access to a database of names/words to make up an endless variety of fake names.
Some of the results are quite goofy and Goonish/Pythonesque. Some recent ones were:
- Eight R. Straggles
- Stratagem B. Shipyard
- Fatalist H. Faraway
- Grunt P. Foreclose
- Beards T. Lively
- Gamma F. Transfusion
- Constance V. Barrage
- Swooned H. Stimson
- Resettle D. Outrigger
- Dogcatchers G. Abbess
- Checker G. Canards
- Balminess Q. Crawl
- Threatenings L. Chortle
- Sandy L. Gasping
- Flap C. Kerouac
- Nonfiction H. Miraculously
- Shrieking P. Delano
- Superficial I. Incumbent
- Dillydallied H. Yevtushenko
- Heliport S. Persecuting
- Handgun H. Deficient
- Churlishness H. Folk
- Striker M. Vistas
- Denver G. Commonwealth
- Discotheque H. Artificer
- Appeasement E. Percolated
- Injection V. Brenda
- Projectile S. Scuzzier
- Feting U. Deleterious
- Stereo Q. Sectarianism
- Infringement R. Swampiest
- Hesiod A. Probationer
The ones in bold are the ones I like so much I’m going to try and use them in a script or even in conversation. Such as “Wasn’t that written by the poet Grunt P. Foreclose?”, or “Wasn’t he killed by the gangster Shrieking P. Delano?”.