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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Spam of the Day Thursday, February 16, 2006 Spam of the Day A deceiving title, since I'm not about to post a spam every single day. Anyway, I get hundreds of emails a day, about 98% of which go right into the junk file. Some spams always slip through the filters though, and I often look at them, just out of curiosity. The ones that really perplex me are the plain text ones selling something like a home loan, or a medical reference, or anatomical enlargement, but that do it with such garbled, nonsensical language that it's actually hard to figure out what they're selling. Hence today's example: Good day flux@blackchampagne.com, We are the bes't available nowadays. ALL Mmedsss are dispensed from Li#cens#ed Phar#m@cyyy. --------------------------------- copy the address below and paste in your web browser: bronchoalveolar.newtechtown.com/?zz=3Dlowcost ---------------------------------- Whosever room this is should be ashamed!. gliding, venomous creatures, with their deadly eyes and wicked,=20. and the results of your conversion will be displayed.. push the "Perform Currency Conversion" button.. when we were sharing rooms as bachelors in Baker Street.. Goodbye, Mohamed Hogue Okay, so it's some sort of counterfeit prescription outlet, selling sugar and/or rat poison tablets that look very much like brand name medicines. And these sorts of mails always alter the spelling of keywords like "penis" or "prescription" or "v1agra" in order to slip past mail filters set up to block mails including those words. Hence "Phar#m@cyyy." But what explains the five, fairly surreal and accidentally poetic closing lines? It's like someone mixed a poem about a snake around instructions for performing a financial transaction, and then "bachelors in Baker Street" means what, exactly? Is it the output of one of those random content creating programs that people use to fill up webpages in order to skew Google search results? Maybe it's just the personal closing signature of the emailer himself, something he puts on there to amuse his friends and doesn't think about being attached to the thousands of daily spams he sends out from a cybercafe? The Mohamed Hague signature aside, the email sender's pseudonym was "Thurman W. Justice," which sounds like the name of a federal judge in a bad political thriller. His actual email is nathankutjepufe@yahoo.sg, but I suppose it's too much to hope that this actually came from Nathan Kutjepufe of Singapore, spammer, failing college student, Starcraft expert, and amateur poet? Labels: mailbag Posted by: Flux # 10:52 PM Comments: That weird signature almost looks like a result of some script or worm or something that cuts lines from various sources (websites? other emails?) and pastes them in. Possibly it does this in order to get past spam filters, since they look like regular words/sentence, rather than "drug" "viagra" "buy" etc etc that most spam is filled with. #: 11:55 PM posted by Anonymous Yeah, I think the lines at the bottom are just supposed to help the email get around filters. #: 9:05 AM posted by Anonymous "and then "bachelors in Baker Street" means what, exactly?" Sherlock Holmes & Watson, of course. :) And yup, I agree too, random lines for getting past filters. #: 12:55 PM posted by Anonymous Yeah, a lot of spam these days seem to have that, and the only reason for that seems to be confusing antispam programs. I've seen pages dedicated to finding and talking about good examples of the stuff that comes out of spam...Can't think of a link though. #: 2:29 PM posted by Anonymous Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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