We have been getting spam messages with the subject “top level quality of paint bucket” both at home and at work. I get that it costs essentially nothing to send a million junk e-mail messages, so it doesn’t take a lot of sales for a campaign to be profitable. But are there seriously people who buy their paint buckets from cold e-mails? Especially e-mails that I thought were trying to sell me buckets of paint.

And how lazy is a spam campaign that uses static strings in the subject field?