Spam names

I've been keeping a list of the most bizarre or amusing fake names I'm getting spam from; today I noticed a trend away from the "Random Foreign Name" paradigm—which looks as if they chose a first name from a phone book in, say, Antwerp, and a last name from one in Ulan-Bator—to a new "Random Slightly Obscure English Word" one. Which is certainly amusing, but I'm a bit disappointed; what, you ran out of phone books and languages?



But anyway, here's what I've collected since December 4th:

• almengor freiheit



• torset mcclafferty



• Lidia Guerra



• stiehm zacarias



• andrew niheu



• gammons birdine



• swoopes doop



• Curring L. Cessna



• Estelle Pham



• Porfirio Mccauley



• Abdul Swift



• Showman P. Scrawl



• Earline Joseph



• Foothold G. Heuristic

You gotta give 'em credit for digging up "Heuristic," but as bizarre names go, I haven't heard anything better than "Porfirio." Who wouldn't want to have a name that sounds remarkably like that of the horrible hereditary disease that caused the infamous madness of George III?