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What does it all mean?
The following are a selection of subject lines from the latest batch of spam I have received. There does seem to be a trend of late towards random collections of words, designed, presumably, to hoodwink us into opening the emails by catching our eye. Enjoy (and see if you're thinking what I'm thinking):
No Cadet By Say
An Nook Go Prescribe
Is Vesper or Monetarism
Do At Minimum
Cohen Last Week
Of Settled
Often Astonished The Bar Ventured
Or No Camelback
That Moldboard Be Burma
As The Acoustic On Costumes
That To Barbaric
RE: Sicily Gimbel
For On Concilatory
Not Burdensome The Exportation
Cryptography Ignore
Is Rutty So Calendar
But Reservoir Or Objectivity
It's the tracklisting from the next Fall album, surely!
Cryptography! Ignore-ah!
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I don't get any spam whatsoever, I feel left out. Boo!
Andrew
What an excellent idea for a post. In good Nick Hornby style I hope that you will permit me my little list. I have of course not included the more “Adult” content although it gives me a laugh with its words I didn’t know existed. I have also not included the plainly libelous.
Since Christmas I have noticed a tendency for what may be a take on biblical quotations:-
One cherub and an abomination of Kabzeel, and
If they be deprived of wickedness and for his disciples and the
And Jerusalem, And I will not perish at noon.
the month they deceived. The wrath, and offerings: for I
Salem also destroy and have nothing but and he a stumblingblock,
His rod of Jesse give: light, and if ye shall come into the and
I saw him. Thy son whom they it unto his sons
and with stones, a stranger thou livest and take your Zion that many
There is the plain weird:-
Or bugaboo my shear
grade point average mutton
Adler herself in evening dress.
Luella, I think this is the perfect birthday gift for Larissa
Seems more suited to an NFL lockerroom than an MIT gym.
All you have to do is set your Sonic Boom Love Clock's alarm and plug in the bed shaker.
Search ending for missing computer genius
boiled industrial complex
anthony hood sketchbook?
The Incomprehensible:-
●▃◆ 想減肥，但 吃藥…瘦了又胖▄▄
The informative:-
By sending readers to your blog you can gain all of the above benefits and you may reduce the amount of niggling questions that you get asked by customers.
The Potential Band Names:-
Go to robot
phosphorescent trash can
Vazquez Gallery BashDaddy
And my personal favourite – a house with its own war (presumably in case the telly is bad):-
We pass through the main lodge, which has four bedrooms, a spacious living room, and a fireplace-war.
Apologies for the length of this but they were all too good in my opinion to miss out.
I got one called "Self-made Bison", which sounds like a great lost Bonzos track. If they could make the spams themselves as interesting as the titles I might just open them.
The random words are there to try to fool Bayesian filters. These detect spam by statistical analysis of the words in the email. If it contains lots of words that have appeared in spam before, then it makes this message more likely to be spam.
Putting in randon words is an attempt to lower the spam rating.
I seem to get random quotes from the bible. Mt friends some them come from list's of google whacks.
Rich
We get more spam than anything else at work. I couldn't tell you the amount of it I delete on a regular basis. At least now I have been able to put it to some practical use. I honestly wouldn't wish it on anyone.
If you take AC's original list, select the first letter of each line, and jumble them around a bit, I am reliably informed that you will eventually get the names of the real 9/11 perpetrators.
blimey! I thought no spam was a good thing but it really does look like I'm missing on the fun here.
(by the way alternative use for this blog no.1 - olive branch. Had row with partner. Sent the link for this to partner who loves The Fall. He laughed. We are speaking. Sorted. Take a bow AC)
apologies if that should have read "Fall" rather than "The Fall". I hope partner does not read this as I'll be in trouble and not knowing the ins and out of the "the" could be grounds for another argument!
Have you recently downloaded Internet Explorer 7? The only reason I ask is that until recently I have lived a fairly spam free life, with the same e-mither address for about 7 years now, and then I downloaded IE7, since then my In Box resembles a selction of the finest Vogon poetry. And there's no point in blocking the senders, it just generates more randomness. I wish it would stop.
Gari, my spam goes straight into a junk filter but so does a lot of other stuff that I need to retrieve, so I have to go in there to fish non-spam out. That's how come I "get" so much. I'm not actually "getting" it, if you see what I mean. It always amazes me how much shit we get at the BBC. I spend a lot of my time deleting spam before I get to work on my programme, taking care not to delete genuine emails from listeners. I just wonder how many people actually reply to these constant Viagra and Cialis ads? (Oops, almost got back onto medicines there - bad idea!)
I use 3 different hotmail/gmail accounts(cheating maybe?). 1 for registering with sites, 1 for buying stuff and 1 for personal stuff. I never get any spam in the personal stuff -not even the junk folder.
I've never had a problem with spam in the past - probably about 20 or 30 a day which are easy to sift through by hand but over the last 12 months it's risen to a ridiculous level. I currently get an average of about 1400 a day into my "catch-all" account - most get deleted automatically by my own filtering. I now even get junk into the account that I've only ever used for personal emails - I assume that a friend has a virus on their system that has kindly sent my address to be harvested.
I did once reply to one of them once telling them not to send any more. But as you can imagine it didn't do any good. In my personal hotmail account I have occasionally had genuine e mails going into the junk mail section just because they were unrecognised so it is not foolproof. However the vast majority of the junk mail comes to my work e-mail which is Microsoft Outlook.
A friend of mine has started replying to online scammers, made me laugh anyway...
You can read it here...
Of the million or so emails I get every day, about 880,000 of them are things like this, with subject lines like death or scandalous lifestyle, from people with fanciful names. How do they find you?
I mean, look at this shit:
Well, he was once in the area. We also face a huge anxiety premium in the cost of this winter's gas because of the impact of soaring oil prices and uncertainties over how much new gas will flow from Europe. You can decide for yourself if I write about interestingstuff on my weblog, Cosmic SeriosityBalance.
Whether or not you really believe in the physical powers of aphrodisiacs, this menu will still help to send a romantic message to your beloved.
You may be afraid that many of us will ask you why when we look at reports on rules engines, portals, workflow and content management syst You have two ways you can approach this event, either campy fun, or elegant, old time Hollywood. In a prime outdoor area next to Glen Affric National Nature Reserve and Corrimony RSPB Nature Reserve, this is the ideal relaxing location in a quiet rural setting, close to mountains and sea. Assorted chocolate nut delights? So instead of the blaze of publicity when launched Lloyds TSB has purposely closed the service with a simple notice on its website stating that Ideal from Lloyds TSB has now closed.
I remember the days when industry analysts as part of their research would actually talk to real world users of products to gain multiple perspectives.
Energylinx now lists these tariffs and would encourage anyone looking at energy prices to compare and consider these.
Could it hold cream truffles? No smoking and no pets please. Expect the trend to continue with the Wildcats moving forward. And will you do it again? The article shows techniques for mixing bulbs, annuals and perennials for lots of spring, summer and . The secret to the wait is to avoid it by phoning your order in advance of your arrival.
In the Poppies story in Issue 71, we showed you some great new longer-lasting poppies in more colors.
Energylinx is largest specialist domestic energy price comparison in the UK that allows users to compare the prices of every single gas and electricity supplier.
Maybe this explains the over reliance on industry analysts? Imagine Grady Booch apply
Chocolate petit fours?
What if enterprises don't have the mental bandwidth in order to move this forward? Chocolate Day, Um, I Mean Valentine's Day is NearEverywhere I turn there are visions of dancing red hearts before my eyes. This conference even goes out of its ways to arrange for attendees to setup one-on-one sessions with the speakers so you can walk away with answers to all your questions.
4 per cent and electricity prices by 9.
We also face a huge anxiety premium in the cost of this winter's gas because of the impact of soaring oil prices and uncertainties over how much new gas will flow from Europe.
Happy Year of the Pig!
holidayHome:: Web Directory:: holiday News:: Free RSS news:: Free Newsletter:: Tell a FriendClientfinder. I'm looking forward to an especially lucky year ahead, and plan to start things off on the right foot, celebrating the New Year of the Pig in true Chinese style. Includes an interview with Jane Roe, who is now a born-again Christian. 3-Season Garden Plan WebGrowing Lifestyle3-Season Garden PlanIn Garden Gate issue 68 we shared a front entry garden that has something to offer in every season of the year.
Maybe the answer doesn't center around staffing or budgeting issues but in all reality the problem may be deeper.
It was also a thorn in the side of last weekend's Lunar New Year Parade in Flushing. As we made so-called progression, IT morphed into including project managers, QA, business analysts, etc all of which in my humble opinion may be IT from an organization chart but are not really IT.
Andrew - you ask how many people actually reply to those Viagra emails. The answer is too many - that's the reason the rest of us keep getting them.
I'm no expert but I believe that all a spammer (is that the correct term?) is looking for is a reply or a click on the link contained in the email. If no one replies or links then there is no point in sending them.
You may wonder at the credulity of people (or perhaps not) but on breakfast TV the other day they were interviewing a seemingly intelligent, rational middle-aged woman who had fallen victim to one of those 'you've won the Canadian Lottery' scams which I thought the whole world knew about by now.
Confidence trickery is hardly a new game I suppose - just the means employed that have changed.
The scariest thing about the Viagra emails is that there really are qualified people out there prepared to write you a prescription for drugs based on a simple on-line form. And of course sell them to you at hugely inflated (oo-er) prices. It's virtually free to send out the emails: you don't need many respondents to recoup costs.
If anyone's considering it, this is from the current US TV ad for Viagra:
Before taking Viagra make sure you're healthy enough for sex.
Don't take Viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure.
Side effects may include headache, flushing, upset stomach and abnormal vision.
To avoid long-term injuries stop taking Viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease in vision or an erection lasting longer than four hours.
On second thoughts you can see why people are tempted.
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