I just got almost fooled by spam for the first time since maybe 1997 (I think that's when I almost got fooled by the "Internet will shut down for a day to clean out the pipes" one).
Someone with the email address "mggreplies@hotmail.com" forwarded me a NY Times article, even adding the personal comment "how embarassing." Fortunately, the article was neither embarassing nor relevant in any way to my interests or my life, so I was immediately tipped off. After googling the email address (and finding nothing), I decided it was worth posting, just to out the senderbot as a public service.
Kind of amazing that (a) this kind of thing doesn't happen more, and (b) sites like nytimes.com aren't adding spot-the-word-in-the-random-noise bot blockers to their email features.
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