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Old 12 July 2006, 12:46 PM
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Question Bizarre spam....

Had an influx at the mo, normal advertising or scams, but these are just plain wacky & have left me intriged as to the motive for sending them:

"In the very back of the garage, near the canisters, I could see something
Jonathan in the lead. Fletcher smoothly at his right wing, Henry Calvin
looked just like cobwebs on the trees in a forest. What kind of spider could
left to the dozens of postgraduate theses being written on the subject and"

another
"bullets miss you--it's a stroke of luck. And as for anything else --that's
"Don't be harsh on them, Fletcher Seagull. In casting you out, the
To bring the unpleasant conversation to a close, I showed Captain
Zones--sorry, my mistake, there were only four other sites known at the"

another
"in arresting you, they're terrified that you're contaminated. All they want
hunger for learning that grew with every lesson. But not one of them, not
No, he couldn't shut himself up. He was on the pockets now. I had no
that it'll be when we really learn to fly?"

What's the point ?

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Old 12 July 2006, 12:53 PM
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Got this one earlier today and did stop and think WTF has this been sent to me for???

official--sources have led me to believe that an inspection of the garage
was a mile across the water. If they waited much longer, he would reach a
"Only in the movies." He was straining to see and I was afraid he'd
divine than Fletcher himself.
Old 12 July 2006, 12:57 PM
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I thought these were just rubbish words to get around spam buster programmes. Often at bottom of main message and sometimes in virtually white lettering so you can't see them unless you look hard. But I may be talking bollox of course
Old 12 July 2006, 01:02 PM
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here's mine:

there. To the left, as many as you want. The road was longer that way, and
"Surely you're joking, doctor. The Pilman Radiant is a concept known to looked at Kirill. He was holding up under the strain, but was moving his formation.
Old 12 July 2006, 01:19 PM
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Even more bizarre is the fact that you guys are reading spam emails...
Old 12 July 2006, 01:24 PM
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Nah, selling Jeffrey Archer books I reckon.
Old 12 July 2006, 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by David Lock
I thought these were just rubbish words to get around spam buster programmes.
Yup - but often they forget to white them out, or even include the intended content in the mail. I wonder how much SPAM is people testing bulk mailers out without knowing WTF they are doing.
Old 12 July 2006, 01:46 PM
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they are validating your e-mail exists by sending you "non spammy" content it's less likely to get rejected. . . .

expect lots of ****/pills/bigger breasts anytime soon
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Originally Posted by BlkKnight
they are validating your e-mail exists by sending you "non spammy" content it's less likely to get rejected. . . .

expect lots of ****/pills/bigger breasts anytime soon
cool, where do i sign?
Old 12 July 2006, 01:56 PM
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I had something similar, deleted it now though......very odd, no swear words etc
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Here's one I made earlier (this morning with drug spam e-mail)

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example or room may cat and polish it ear may self a interest a comparison , boy in design ! example may news , direction some silk or reward and pull and government try line some box , hour a brake but black but payment it's secretary may straight not early be plate knife but foot , industry test it thick in plant see stage not bag , bread on print may early it may gold on roll in finger a animal some rat not mother be strong , door it delicate a early see form in sky a electric in finger try wave
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Originally Posted by David Lock
Here's one I made earlier (this morning with drug spam e-mail)

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example or room may cat and polish it ear may self a interest a comparison , boy in design ! example may news , direction some silk or reward and pull and government try line some box , hour a brake but black but payment it's secretary may straight not early be plate knife but foot , industry test it thick in plant see stage not bag , bread on print may early it may gold on roll in finger a animal some rat not mother be strong , door it delicate a early see form in sky a electric in finger try wave
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Fortunately the SPAM filters on my mail server are a little more sophisticated. Word checkeing is just one tool it uses combined with internet black list lookups, local black list look ups, HTML content etc etc to give an overall SPAM score for the mail. You can also add custom things to look for. On the whole it works very well, not had a SPAM mail slip though in a long time and it catches around 500 per day.
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