dean lenort

Most of my SPAM never even makes it on to my machine but this one had a
different enough Subject line that it appeared to be worth the download,
and boy did that prove to be the case. Not only does it make no sense
whatsoever, it also let me know of yet another acronym for my name - "Wen
Reid".

-> Subject: A magnet for chicks,

-> To: "Danny Owens" <dean-o@worldnet.att.net>
-> Cc: "Wen Reid" <dean.lenort@worldnet.att.net>,
-> "Sage Bradley" <dean88@worldnet.att.net>

-> Don't pass on this, ok? I am so excited about this product that I don't
-> mind sharing the secret.

-> I711033 image will finish loading in a few seconds
-> See a black square then activate it to see your email

-> Gfp pmmgilyf mtsoidq The voice said again: "Bear me, mother, as all my
-> father's cattle are being finished, and I have not yet eaten anything of
-> them." Then the woman gave birth to that child.

Truly an astounding effort. Why the quote in the last paragraph alone
(which apparently deals with cattle mutilation) is enough to make this a
contender for the coveted title of SPAM of The Year (STY)!

So did anyone else receive this particular bit of web jetsam, or know
someone who did? And if so, did you figure out what the heck it meant?

--
Dean Lenort | Though if you are in the mood to make
| love to cattle, Usenet is probably one
dean.lenort@att.net | of the best places to talk about it. --Tshen

whosetitanelbow

Dean Lenort <dean.lenort@att.net> schreef in
berichtnieuws...news:vb33rvg8b1v639tnkhm3jg1ev4drk r163d@4ax.com:

It might be a Bracewell probe gone wonky.

--
"So the gamers and the scammers say it's the fault of the critics who tried
to carve through the mumbo-jumbo in the first place." -- Josh Marshall

tim chmielewski

I am getting spam with the following in the subject line:
Re: %RND_UC_CHAR[2-8], signature was right

Their spamming software isn't working properly obviously.

Thanks.

--
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account.)
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john burrage

: different enough Subject line that it appeared to be worth the download,
: and boy did that prove to be the case. Not only does it make no sense
: whatsoever, it also let me know of yet another acronym for my name - "Wen
: Reid".

[snip spam thingy]

: So did anyone else receive this particular bit of web jetsam, or know
: someone who did? And if so, did you figure out what the heck it meant?

Sadly I have not received it. But I did get the MY REGARDS PLEASE one from
David Richard. That was pretty good.

"Dear Friend,
This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not
yet met. I have to say that I have no intentions of causing you any pains
so I decided to contact you through this medium (***y ads)"

***y ads? What ***y ads?

--
John Burrage
http://members.iinet.net.au/~burrage/

yoof

I apologize for the lack of entertainment to be found in this post and
blame it on the cough that I appear to be coming down with.

ANYWAY. I speculate that maybe the spam software inserts a random
paragraph or two from a randomly chosen website or something? The lines
after the bit where the spammer speaks in tongues appears to be taken
from the weird folktale found at
<http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/xft/xft11.htm>.

-jwgh

--
'The strip is beautiful, btw. I laughed, I cried, I showed it to a
friend, the friend said "I don't get it," I laughed.'
-- Reid Orsten, 27 August 2003

ras2

On 2003-11-12 14:45:06 GMT, Jacob W. Haller <yoof@jwgh.org>

Please also blame Jacob's cough for this post, thank you.

I think it's some sort of collect-them-all scheme; save up enough
gibberish for a whole novel.

" to seek the words which are to convey to you the horrible tidings.^M
ultimate restoration, notwithstanding a debt of 19,000L., which
My ideas have been almost universally despised, and I suppose that I was"

"towards the land. It had a wild and rocky appearance,
he will not follow that road. A hostile force may be open to"

"associations; but, unhappily for their success, the catholic
metaphor, in which you compare classification and complex machines, does
You who listen, I cried, pointing now to Moreau and shouting past"

"the text differently: We must not only know how to assail our
Hao says, the enemy has secretly abandoned his camp.]
persons composing this Committee, which was proposed by Mr."

"order to hide our shame. We have paid for the right to look at the
foreign gentleman, himself possessing no inconsiderable
so sound asleep that they can be successfully attacked,"

There's also a series of spams with shorter sentences, mostly about
'the math of dog eating', which seem like something a badly trained
megahal could come up with.


"we found your email on pr0n site thats why we think you need total cleaner",

Choosy Coulter Devon.
Voluntary librettist fort.
--
[SFX: The Prodigy - Narayan - The Fat Of The Land]

glenn knickerbocker

We haven't had any juicy posts from Kurt in a LONG time, have we?

¬R

kevin s. wilson

You would be correct. Spammers hope that the random text will let the
spam get past filters. They're also found of inserting a ton of HTML
comments in HTML spam, and writing subject lines like "B.igger P@*is
head - created a more mus.hroomed and mus.cular look qzwsljqin." If
you read mail with an app that doesn't display HTML, the spam is
nearly unreadable.

--
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a University Somewhere in Idaho
"You can safely ignore Kevin in order to
maximise life's experience." --A. Loon, in alt.religion.kibology

jeremy d. impson

They are trying, and to a significant degree succeeding, to defeat
Bayesian Spam filters.

--Jeremy

--

Jeremy Impson
jdimpson can be contacted at acm dot org
http://impson.tzo.com/~jdimpson

timc

Jeremy D. Impson (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:


Can someone enlighten me as to why they would try to be bypassing
bayesian spam filters, given the said filters are for personal use,
and as such would be run by people who aren't exactly going to fall
for the spam thing?

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
I'm all for computer dating, but I wouldn't want one to marry my sister.