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botankus
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Question about Spam E-mails

I'm sure somebody out here has gotta know this, 'cause it's bugging the hell outta me. Why is it, every single spam message I get (I click "Preview" at work so I don't actually open the message) has a bunch of stuff like:

Buy [XXXXXXXXX] $2.59
Buy [XXXXXXXXX] $4.52

and so on...BUT THEN, at the end, there's always some random literary passage that sounds like Charles Dickens on LSD. For example, here was the mumbo jumbo at the end of some e-mail about prescription drugs:

Zeal without knowledge, is fire without light Adversity Makes Strange Bedfellows

Fax is stranger than fiction.. If you get it overnight, you can lose it just as quick

Is it a method of masking their intentions? Any ideas? I know it isn't to make them sound articulate.

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Bardock42
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I don't read Spam emails

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Ya Krunk'd Floo
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Originally posted by Bardock42
I don't read Spam emails

I wish I could contribute as much as you to the discussions here on KMC...

*sad face*

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Bardock42
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Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
I wish I could contribute as much as you to the discussions here on KMC...

*sad face*

You will, one day you will...

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Aug 18th, 2006 01:12 PM

Ya Krunk'd Floo
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Originally posted by Bardock42
You will, one day you will...

You're right...I must always reach for the stars...

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Bardock42
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Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
You're right...I must always reach for the stars...

I like how you call them stars it's really a cute ...oh..you actually meant stars...well..nevermind I guess.

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Aug 18th, 2006 02:15 PM

botankus
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Actually, I could have used these last few posts in my original example.

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Aug 18th, 2006 02:22 PM

Ya Krunk'd Floo
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Originally posted by Bardock42
I like how you call them stars it's really a cute ...oh..you actually meant stars...well..nevermind I guess.

Yeah, I'm really tall. Like a tree.

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Bardock42
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Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Yeah, I'm really tall. Like a tree.

Yeah, I heard about that. "Ya Krunk'd Floo....he's tall like a tree. They call him Bonsai"

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Aug 18th, 2006 02:33 PM

Gregory
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I think it' to try to get them through spam filters.

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botankus
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I can see the logic behind spam filters blocking anything with articulation in it, but I don't see the logic in it.

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Aug 18th, 2006 03:27 PM

Victor Von Doom
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Spam filter: 'That sounds fairly vague, I'll let it through.'

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Bardock42
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Originally posted by botankus
I can see the logic behind spam filters blocking anything with articulation in it, but I don't see the logic in it.

Hmm....I think my head is dying.

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Aug 18th, 2006 04:24 PM

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Re: Question about Spam E-mails

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Originally posted by botankus
I'm sure somebody out here has gotta know this, 'cause it's bugging the hell outta me. Why is it, every single spam message I get (I click "Preview" at work so I don't actually open the message) has a bunch of stuff like:

Buy [XXXXXXXXX] $2.59
Buy [XXXXXXXXX] $4.52

and so on...BUT THEN, at the end, there's always some random literary passage that sounds like Charles Dickens on LSD. For example, here was the mumbo jumbo at the end of some e-mail about prescription drugs:

Zeal without knowledge, is fire without light Adversity Makes Strange Bedfellows

Fax is stranger than fiction.. If you get it overnight, you can lose it just as quick

Is it a method of masking their intentions? Any ideas? I know it isn't to make them sound articulate.

Never read spam emails. Delete them as soon as you see them. If you open them up, you are likely to bombarded eith even more of the same spam you have already been receiving.

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Aug 19th, 2006 11:33 AM

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Bardock42
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Originally posted by Nichole
Never read spam emails. Delete them as soon as you see them. If you open them up, you are likely to bombarded eith even more of the same spam you have already been receiving.

How?

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Aug 19th, 2006 11:36 AM

Nichole
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Originally posted by Bardock42
How?

I am not exactly sure, but these companies have your email address, and I believe they can tell when you open an email of theirs, and send you more.

Likewise, if you click the 'unsubscribe' button at the bottom of the email, or send them a blank email to get off their mailing list, as they sometimes ask for, they know you have taken the time to send the email, so send you hundreds more.

It's just safer to delete them. smile

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Aug 19th, 2006 11:48 AM

Alliance
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Originally posted by Bardock42
I don't read Spam emails

There is a delete button.

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Bardock42
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Originally posted by Alliance
There is a delete button.

I like to keep them, to pretend I have friends.

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Aug 19th, 2006 05:30 PM

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Re: Question about Spam E-mails

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Originally posted by botankus
I'm sure somebody out here has gotta know this, 'cause it's bugging the hell outta me. Why is it, every single spam message I get (I click "Preview" at work so I don't actually open the message) has a bunch of stuff like:

Buy [XXXXXXXXX] $2.59
Buy [XXXXXXXXX] $4.52

and so on...BUT THEN, at the end, there's always some random literary passage that sounds like Charles Dickens on LSD. For example, here was the mumbo jumbo at the end of some e-mail about prescription drugs:

[b]Zeal without knowledge, is fire without light Adversity Makes Strange Bedfellows

Fax is stranger than fiction.. If you get it overnight, you can lose it just as quick

Me too....... I delete them now cause I've heard and have problems with hackers............they can sneek in this way...........

Email with only like 2 bts (is this how you say it?) after the entry shows.

Geez, I get these all he time.

Aug 20th, 2006 12:17 AM

Nichole
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Originally posted by Bardock42
I like to keep them, to pretend I have friends.

You want to be friends with the guy who offers you a penis enlarger? stick out tongue

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