i just recieved one of the most unhinged spam emails of my years as a user of email. it sounds like it was written by a person locked in a room with nothing but a thesaurus and a 10-strip of acid. the fact that it ends in the usual fake paypal invoice only makes it funnier.
@palomakop Honourable Purveyor of Advanced Dreams would be a nice name for a band specialising in lullaby metal.
@riley I believe it's the extra spheric sub-genre: psychedelic medieval ambient metal @palomakop
@riley @palomakop or a really weird porn sub-genre

@EduEdu "Octopussy von Github and her Honourable Purr-Way to Advanced Dreams"

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@riley @palomakop just received this scam…. They don’t even make the effort anymore.

@EduEdu All scammers are lazy, but some scammers are more lazy than other scammers.

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Dibs on Product of Win as my next cat's name.
@palomakop Odds on it being generated by an LLM?
@beeoproblem @palomakop Reasonably high, though I don't usually see LLMs making grammatical errors like these.
@beeoproblem @palomakop unless it was prompted with “in the style of a wizard on cocaine” i’d expect something way more boring

@cinebox @palomakop

That's the thing for me. I don't see a spammer just manually typing a message being *that* committed to a bit like this. I could see a combination of bad prompt selection and bad training data producing something this absurd.

@cinebox @beeoproblem whatever the source was, im pretty sure this has been put through multiple rounds of automated translation as well
@cinebox @beeoproblem @palomakop well now I guess I have a starting point for my next D&D character build
@cinebox @beeoproblem @palomakop I mean... I tried and... it's definitely a start
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At minimum, the scammer had an LLM rephrase it
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As the spelling is so beautifully accurate, I can't imagine how you concluded this was a fake...

@palomakop honestly if I did invoices mine would look just like that for the comedy. 😂
@palomakop Sounds like we are entering a new age of Nigerian Princes with LLMs.
@palomakop Not gonna lie, I'd be tempted to click the link just to reward that prose.
@palomakop Almost like some strange kind of poetry…
@palomakop @liaizon I need to know the AI prompt for this. 😆
@palomakop from the honorable Winnifred Sillitoe no less!
@palomakop I’ve heard of notes sounding like the author has a gun to their head, but this is the first time I think the author was the one holding the gun.

@palomakop it's either made just for fun, or was written with some goofy as heck tool for changing words (to prevent being blocked maybe?)..

either way it's such a goof laugh it doesn't even matter

@writeblankspace i'm not sure but it did make it past my email provider's spam filters!

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My liege, I am humbled to be in your presence, Honorable Purveyor of Advanced Dreams! 🤣

That email is one for the record books.

@palomakop Holy crap, that’s one trippy spam email. Full marks for abstract weirdness.
@palomakop 😳🙀😵‍💫🥷😱
@palomakop What kind of name is Winnifred Sillitoe help me

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the pot of the internet

i am so stealing that

@palomakop Ah formal English, lol.
@palomakop Yes, it's clear Amanda Fayette is earning a comfortable living this way, selling iPhones out of her home.

@palomakop Gotta be honest, I'd love if more spam looked like this.

It'd still get deleted, but I'd at least find it far more funny than irritating and worrying!

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> the respected language of PDF

@palomakop this is a work of art. Even with your description I was not prepared.

Somewhere, somehow, a calling is being missed.

@palomakop This could have been written by one of the guys I played D&D with in high school after he licked a dot.
@palomakop man, they whiffed it by setting such a high price, I'd have paid, say, $150 easy, just on the slimmest of slim off change it was real
@palomakop Lo! for it was written that the scammers would get lazier and thus did seek out the LLMs who knew not how to communicate with mortals.
@palomakop I'm trying to work out what the verb "effortlessness" translates as in the original un-thesaurused text.
@palomakop When I get mail like that it's usually because a role playing game kickstarter I backed has started shipping.
@palomakop "ok ChatGPT, write me a phishing lure in a style like a RenFaire herald and the script writer for Spaceballs had a baby"

@palomakop Next message comes in:

Hello extremely! I hope you like to "play".
Some Orz are really here! You are help Orz with "parties". Orz looking for you, and find you. So much joy!!
Other place is "frumple". Orz are here now, but almost not yet.

@palomakop Speaking of acid, " Dark star crashes pouring it's light into ashes. Reason tatters, the force tares loose from the axis. Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusions... ". Hopefully, that clears things up for ya. Thank you J.Garcia and The Grateful Dead.
@palomakop I think somebody dialled the temperature of their LLM a little too high.

@palomakop @Triplefox

> the organised disarray of present day business!

Well that’s touched a nerve, Winnifred.

@palomakop I unironically love it. "Hail, honourable purveyor of (product)" should be a more common opening line.
@palomakop It looks like someone has a hallucinating AI sending their emails; and I'm here for it! 😀
@palomakop You have to wonder how the spammer ended up doing the whole wizard-on-cocaine bit. For all the sludge it spews, sometimes even a blind squirrel can find a nut.
@palomakop I'd pay them just out of pure respect

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The Respected Language of PDF! 

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This must be one of the GLaDOS's cores
@palomakop I wondered if this was the actual message from some whimsical shop that they've repurposed for the fake-invoice scam.