Weird spam emails
What’s going on with the weird/nonsensical spam going around these days? I’m referring to the ones that don’t seem to be selling a product and surely don’t serve a clear purpose. Here’s one that showed up in my inbox:
—– Original Message —–
From: Stacy Post
To: trainque@hotmail.com
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 10:27 AM
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Are these emails used to determine if an address is actually monitored by a human? Can anyone share any light on the purpose of these cryptic emails?
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It’s so they can get around Bayesian spam filters, which look for certain word patterns.
http://blog.glennf.com/mtarchives/002351.html
All I can say is..
I tend to get them in weird cheap pharmaceutical advertisements from Bulgaria. It’ll be a weird add, and underneath is something such as this:
“izetbegovicem vidrir a3 skinfaksi This is great! reflected the youth
Here I am, traveling in fine style, without a penny to pay any one! And I’ve enough food to last me a month in my coat pocket
They stood before it in silent admiration”
The last one, I googled the paragraph, and it came up from some book.
This guy has blogged about it.
Update - I googled the one I just shared - it is from the same book as the last one:
The Master Key
by L. Frank Baum