Artificial Intelligence

Anotherblog has been blogging about how spambots are getting smarter. He's right, as daily even my mobile phone receives personally addressed email. So now the penis enlargement spam goes, "Hey winstoninabox, have you ever felt inadequate? Well the ladies no longer laugh at me. Now I laugh at them."

How can it know so much about me?

Still, no matter how knowledgeable these little bots get, they're only as smart as the illiterates that program them. As this excerpt from an otherwise quite convincing PayPal account verification spam email shows:

If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to temporaly suspend your account.

Well, that and the fact that I don't have a PayPal account.