Question about Spam E-mails

Started by debbiejo2 pages
debbiejo Dreamer

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Nichole Senior Member

Originally posted by debbiejo
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Mustn't be that hard for him to admit! 😆

Bardock42 Junior Member
Originally posted by Nichole
You want to be friends with the guy who offers you a penis enlarger? 😛

So I said, didn't I?

ThePittman "Pitt Happens"

It does this for several reasons, one is to help prevent people from blocking key words and also one trick that they use is to send embedded pictures with the spam but no text. Some filters look for this so by adding in the random quotes this make it looks more like a legitimate email.

Raz Meister

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

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

It has to do with the spam filter, specifally the Bayesian-type filters, that determine whether something is spam based on the words that are used.

botankus Bass-ackwards

Thanks for the explanation, Raz. For some unknown reason, it was driving me crazy!