Are people who send spam real people?

In search of the great, lost character name.

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I am going to straight up undermine the veracity of this article by spamming Argumentative Penguin who recently admitted in an article that fellow writers on Medium are a good source of character names.

You can read his article here — https://medium.com/the-shortform/micro-confession-your-names-are-all-going-in-my-scripts-e414448f005b

When it comes to naming characters, the villain at least, there is one source I have found that outperforms all others; the spam folder.

Looking for some great character names for your next noir novel?
Look no further than your spam folder.

I find Google one of the least interesting companies in the known universe. However, one thing they are good at is dealing with spam. Thank you Google. At first, I saw this as a desirable convenience. Little did I know it was going to be a wonderful source of entertainment.

Without further ado, here are some of the excellent character names that have been derived from my spam folder. If any of these names belong to you, please stop sending me spam, I only need your name once for it to be of value. Note that not a single name has been changed to increase its humour quotient.