spam oddity

[jwgh]

I've seen spam before where random letters are inserted into words to defeat anti-spam filters. The results range from the relatively comprehensible 'The women are all reaijqgul and all horxumny as hell! ' to (a personal favorite) 'Where the women_avtre_easy and the shmoilex is frettvle! ' which takes a little thought to decode.

Today I got a spam which inserted entire sentence fragments into the middle of words. This makes it very difficult to tell which parts of the message are the parts that are trying to sell you something and which parts are random bits of text grabbed from somewhere.

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Great number of negroes? I think we can all agree that the shmoilex is frettvle, indeed.

(Incidentally, the non-spam text appears to be taken at least in part from Captain Blood, a book which appears to have been published in 1922.)

Comments

[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

negroesidentiaIity

That is so not right. Why do they even bother sending this crap?

[paperclippy.livejournal.com]

That totally made my day!

[mskala.livejournal.com]

Are you using an MUA that fails to render HTML in graphical form? I wouldn't be surprised if many of these mid-word sentence fragments are HTML-tagged in such a way as to make them invisible, or nearly so, in Outlook Express. The idea is that spam filters will see "Vceased.ALlUM" as "Vceased.ALlUM" but users will see it as "V ALIUM". because "ceased." is in white-on-white microscopic print.

[jwgh]

Hmmm. Eudora has some HTML support but it's not fully-fledged by any means, and I think I do have it configured to ignore some types of tags, so that's quite possible. I deleted the spam in question so I no longer have access to its source.

[penelope-arcade.livejournal.com]

"the shmoilex is frettvle" sounds like something rose nylund would say on the golden girls.

[jwgh]

I was thinking that a lot of those words could be said by Jerry Lewis.

[jwgh]

Incidentally, the entire 'shmoilex is frettvle' spam can be found here, and my deconstruction of same is here.

[spinningbee.livejournal.com]

LOLOL!!!!!!!

Oww my tummy hurts

LOLOL!!!!!!