Stock spammers in particular seem to like "Hi Bob" messages, spams that pretend to be personal messages sent to the wrong person by mistake, breathlessly extolling the virtues of something that the sender just happens to have discovered. A spammer currently pushing Texhoma (TXHE.PK) has apparently decided that "Hi Bob" messages are the future of stock spam, and is pumping out dozens of them, all featuring the same boilerplate text filled in with randomly generated names.

To judge from the text, the spammer is not a native English speaker. He's also none too smart - or he's using some rather limited ratware - because he uses the same random name for both sender and recipient. Here's a sample:

From: "Teri Franklin" <fgn@somedomain.invalid>
To: <user@otherdomain.invalid>
Subject: Teri Franklin wrote:
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:46:09 -0480

hi Teri i hope this is your email.
I was like to see you the other day. I expect you are really had 
like the  New York.
So much so much happening all the time, lots of great opportunities.  
And speaking of opportunities, the deal I was speaking you about
yesterday included a company called Tex-Homa (TXHE).
It's already lift up, but the big announcement isn't even 
out yet, so there's still time. I have got this shares already 
and made 2000. I suggest you to do the same today.

Hope this helps you out.  I'll see you this weekend.
Yours Teri Franklin

I don't want to be unkind, but I do think that this particular trick works best when you don't send six identical messages to the same address. People who buy stocks advertised by spam are pretty stupid, but at some point even they must start to suspect something.