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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Spam Mail



Ok... we all hate spam mail. I understand that some of it is scams, and others are actually trying to sell you something (which most likely isn't worth it).

Even though I understand these message I still hate them.

However... lately I've been noticing some rather odd spam messages that I do not understand the purpose of. For instance, here is one of the ones I received earlier today:

"Maurice Alvin paycheck inside a satellite goes to sleep, and .a CEO has a change of heart about .a support group beyond a hydrogen atom. The? imaginative ski lodge Most people believe that the defendant. shares a shower with the hockey player, but they. need to remember how seldom a crane toward. a reactor procrastinates. Any briar patch can avoid contact with the college-educated vacuum cleaner, but it takes a, real sheriff to buy an expensive gift for some football team. An industrial. complex is boiled. Most people believe, that some judge eats a canyon defined by. the crane, but they need to remember how .accurately a reactor procrastinates. The wedge behind the .razor blade throws a statesmanlike defendant at an? accidentally hairy turn signal. A secretly nearest canyon Some. jersey cow toward a scooby snack avoids contact with. the tornado around an insurance agent. Indeed, a.
wedge toward a fundraiser non-chalantly seeks a purple .bowling ball. When the dreamlike tomato hides, a .lover procrastinates. Conclusions A satellite, an earring, and? a dust bunny are what made America great! The. deficit makes love to the oil filter. A senator. from the squid wisely learns a hard lesson. from a skyscraper related to the reactor. If a corporation seeks a ball bearing, then the canyon inside, another steam engine hesitates. Indeed, a revered sandwich figures out the polygon. Introduction. The hockey player toward the pine, cone borrows money from another class action suit.
over a bartender. Now and then, a power .drill around the hydrogen atom brainwashes a bohemian .abstraction. Most people believe that the false satellite? seldom conquers the mastadon, but they need to remember. how thoroughly a cough syrup around the grain of. sand wakes up. A short order cook related.

to an ocean bestows great honor upon a .blood clot. A short order cook gives secret .financial aid to the feline razor blade. A? ravishing industrial complex When the cowboy inside some dolphin. ruminates, the corporation meditates. Furthermore, the blotched corporation leaves,. and a false garbage can barely tries to. seduce a parking lot. A tomato is nuclear. The steam engine defined by a tabloid If some ocean, around some football team accurately competes with a chestnut inside an inferiority complex,. then a sheriff behind some tornado, nharbison"


I mean... the closest thing to a true sentence in all of that is "Any briar patch can avoid contact with the college-educated vacuum cleaner, but it takes a, real sheriff to buy an expensive gift for some football team." WTF is the point of sending out emails like this? It's not a scam... they're not trying to sell anything... they're not even communicating anything... so what purpose do they serve other than getting on my nerves and wasting storage space?

Anyways... I'm at a loss for words on this.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Most likely there was supposed to be a picture (or different text) covering up the text you saw and quoted here. The MIME email standard allows the same message to contain plain text and HTML-formatted content (as well as attached files); the way it's supposed to work, the HTML-formatted part gets displayed by email client software that knows how to handle it, and the plain text part is shown by clients that don't do HTML. A while back, a lot of spammers started sending their messages as pictures, since spam filters can't tell pictures apart as easily as text (by keyword matching, e.g.). In response, the spam filters were adjusted to block most messages that contained pictures and no text. So the spammers started putting a bunch of random text behind their pictures to trick the filters. Then the filters were made to distinguish between "realistic" text (i.e. sentences and such) and the random gobbledygook the spammers were using. So the spammers started piecing together random excerpts of text from various books, websites, etc. That's what you have here: an attempt at piecing random words together into something resembling structured sentences. What probably happened is either the picture didn't get properly inserted into the message, or a spam filter on a mail server somewhere between the spammer and you blocked the picture, or your email client isn't showing the picture.

Got all that?

27 September, 2006 12:33  
Blogger Nathan said...

Ah... so those crazy words are just pictures in my head. I gots it.

27 September, 2006 16:08  

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