Gibberish in Spam Mail

Sat Mar 13 21:04:17 EST 2004

There was an interesting article in the NYTimes about this.  The  
spammers are trying to evade spam blockers by spelling the words  
differently than usual, i.e. with caps in the wrong places or numbers  
instead of letters.  The gibberish words are put there to make a spam  
blocking computer think they are unusual words that need to be let  
through by their unusual spelling;  this one is a cruder attempt.   
Slicker spammers use a longer line of big SAT words in the header or  
body, like "conjunctive belligerent apricot epistolary" that are  
actually in a dictionary.

The article argued that the more gibberish and funky spellings they are  
forced to add by anti-spam software will eventually make their message  
completely unintelligible, so the recipient won't click on the link, so  
the spammer  won't get paid, so it won't be worth their while to spam  
anymore, so they'll stop.  We can only hope.

On Mar 9, 2004, at 8:44 PM, hawkwynd wrote:

>
> Periodically, when I look through some of the spam I receive, there's
> garbled text, and words that are not real words, like this spam email I
> use as an example:
>
> From rwaeckdndssz at post.com Tue Mar  9 20:39:25 2004
> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:57:53 -0500
> From: Dorian Mclain <rwaeckdndssz at post.com>
> To: hawkridge at adelphia.net
> Subject: broil denunciate
>
> <html>
> <body>
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> <br>
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> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> WTF is this, and why is it put into the message? Anyone know?
>
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