An e-mail I just received, WTF does this mean?.....

[PfNJ]

It's some sort of spam for some sort of Visa card, why do they put all this crap in the message area, I usually delete stuff like this without even opening it, but what the f*ck does all this mean?


Here's the text:

"Jacques and I took eggplant about (with bartender behind, toothache toward cab driver. When turkey near customer sweeps the floor, ball bearing of customer hides. And a big fan of the dark side of her steam engine. Still give a pink slip to her from from rattlesnake, recognize her support group near with grand piano around parking lot. taxidermist about movie theater hides, because around alchemist confess necromancer related to. wasteland butchery protactinium cameo parochial"

What the f**k does this have to do with Visa, or anything else for that matter?


:crazy: :wtf: :crazy:

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Almost all my spam now has such dadaistic strings of words

it's bizarre, but sometimes fun to read.

[PfNJ]

11. you know.....

It is actually kind of fun to read, I'm reading it in this sort of Colson Whitehead abstract/beat-poet type of voice, it is pretty amusing, for a little while at least.....

:-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. I'm thinking of setting some to music

and making a performance out of it. That would be pretty cool.

probably time for me to start actually saving the damned things.

[Lisa0825]

2. I get those too.... I have NO IDEA why they do them that way....

It has always mystified me too.

[boobooday]

3. I have been wondering what is up with the random generation

I have gotten these too -- what are they for? They seem to be randomly generated groups of words.

I've gotten a few, and I'm with you :wtf:

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. That is the padding output...

From some sort of program used by people who want to disrupt USENET. Damned if I can remember the name.

It has huge lists of that sort of gibberish, as I recall.

[Bertha Venation]

5. Sounds like something out of my dream journal.

:shrug:

[DontBlameMe]

6. Possibility

If your email program is set to receive html, they may contain scripts. Otherwise, no idea. Your av software should filter it out, though.

[bratcatinok]

7. It's to get past the spam guards.

Not sure how it works exactly but somewhere I've read the spammers are doing it to try to be sent directly to your inbox instead of into bulk or deleted.

[R3dD0g]

8. It's designed to defeat heuristic spam filters.

They include enough heavy weight words to outweigh the weight of the spam words. Spam filtering and the spammers are in a constant struggle. It's like the cold war, we do this, they do that, and back & forth forever.

[wroberts189]

9. The spammers put it in to get by spam filters /eom

[Eye and Monkey]

10. It's a misdirected coded email from Dubya's puppetmaster to Poppy.

"Jacques and I" is a dead give-away (meeting with Chirac).
"bartender behind" - Dubya was focusing on the bowl of mints and not paying attention
"ball bearing of customer hides" - the purchaser of the weapons has not yet provided the number of the Swiss bank account

Do you need a complete translation, or can you take it from here? By the way, that return address is worth alot of cold cash, if you contact the right people.

Disclaimer - I have no idea what I am talking about. This is entirely a jest.

[PfNJ]

12. LOL.....

:-)

[Eye and Monkey]

14. Say "hi" to Agent Mike. Hi, Agent Mike!

:hi:

[DieboldMustDie]

13. How's this?

earth step problem close town grow. peculiar key was meet" did playing wonder decided as break bought usual.

<ad pitching phony university degree goes here>

happen familiar swimming shown ate" cant sister cannot heaven earlier touch page special.

:shrug:

[PfNJ]

17. Yeah, I've.....

opened a couple like that before, too.....

The one I posted in the original message was the strangest one I ever opened, though (I usually delete these things without opening them), because it's almost in paragraph form, and almost sounds like some kind of story.....

[nickgutierrez]

15. I think it's a way around spam filters, but...

...I have no idea how spam filters work. That's just a hunch.

[R3dD0g]

18. A common method of spam filtering

is to assign a number to every non article in the email. A word like free, bargain, mortgage etc gets a negative rating, other words get a positive number. Then the email is scored and if the overall is negative it's spam.

So, the spammers include a bunch of meaningless words that have a high positive weight to try to fool the filter.

[PfNJ]

19. like.....

rattlesnake, taxidermist, alchemist, I see.....

I knew it had something to do with getting around filters, but I'm not too Tech-Savvy to begin with, I'm not even sure if I have any sort of spam filter on, although I realize this is some sort of a mass e-mailing that is sent out the same way to everybody, regardless of what sort of spam-filters they have.....

[traco]

16. They put all that in

to confuse your email program and keep it from recognizing it as spam

[supernova]

21. Wow! Spam that uses "necromancer"

in the text has to set some kind of record. :crazy:

[PfNJ]

23. that does mean.....

what I think it means, huh?

[liberalhistorian]

22. Sounds like the beginning

of a James Joyce novel! :evilgrin:

[TOhioLiberal]

24. spam filters....

look for 'loaded' words in the email like 'Free' and 'porn' and well you get the idea... This type of email defeats it because it doesn't have the words its looking for.

My junk mail has extra letters and weird characters like this '¥' and it annoys the hell out of me.