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John Connellan
02-25-07, 07:26 PM
Everyone often get's those spam emails with incomprehensible sentences and paragraphs at the bottom such as:

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My question is: what purpose does it serve? Are they only keywords for spammers and if so, why are they structured into pseudosentences? Some of them almost look like stories being told by on LSD!

RubiksMaster
02-25-07, 07:42 PM
Maybe it's some kind of code being "broadcast." Much like the internet version of a numbers station.

w1z4rd
02-25-07, 07:43 PM
Did it not come with a picture attachment?

lunar_rhythm
02-25-07, 09:55 PM
Its the same non-sensical rambling, occasionally is represents some freakish prose. They come through the "helldesk" sys at my work, if i get incredibly bored tommarow I may post one.
I am thinking it is a spammer's keyword-induced oddity.

w1z4rd
02-25-07, 09:58 PM
Normally this type of spam comes with picture attachments which have the real spam in the images. Random text generation is used to make the email look like a conversation to spam filters to evade them.

domesticated om
02-26-07, 12:07 PM
It's probably just garbage, but it would make an interesting encoded message. Maybe the cipher can be created by using the first letter of each word.

Stryder
02-28-07, 08:00 AM
I don't think spammer's cipher in their messages. I think what it's really about is two things:

1: To undermine straight forwards Spam guards, for instance you can't just block XXX, you have to block X.XX XX.X X.X.X X[X]X etc

2: Increasing network traffic while "Terrorising" Email gateways.
This could be for a number of objectives like getting you to go out of your way to buy Anti-virus and anti-spam options for your email accounts etc or forcing Legislation on Email Tracing measures.

It's no longer about cold calling you to sell you a product but lowering the quality of your life. Making spammers if not the biggest Human Rights Violators.