As before, feel free to share your interpretations in the comments.
sopping wet from head to toe. I locked myself in a stall, got my flask, most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready happens to you? It’s in the Zone,” I said. “We have to follow regulations.”
are special and gifted and divine, above other birds.”
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I’m loving the rash of spam R and I’ve been getting lately:
Your health, onion flyswatter
Your money, noodle harvester
:), night decking
Hi, page rest
I have saved all of them so I can write a post about my various identities as noodle harvester and onion flyswatter.
The sad thing is, it works. The spammers are trying to get you to look. I know this — and I shouldn’t look. But I do anyway. :)
No interpretation of YOURS, but here’s one that just came my way:
So I threw eight more nuts and bolts until I knew the shape of this mange
ordinary experience, and now, the special student of the Elder Himself, he
“Praying?” I asked. “Pray on, pray. The further into the Zone the
“What in particular interests you? Remember, I wasn’t in Harmont at the
Oh wow, I so want to be a noodle harvester when I grow up.
For a while, I got a tons of spams that included long quotations from the Lord of the Rings books.
The ploy worked; I looked.
More likely those passages of random texts are not there to make the reader look, but to try to fool bayesian and fingerprinting anti-spam techniques. Usually they’re at the bottom of the message, out of the way below the “real spam” message.
I used to have a lot of them, but I just deleted the file. grrr
That’s what I would think too, except the weird thing about these messages (since I posted this, I’ve gotten 2 more that have similar chunks of random text) is that the random text is the entirety of the message. No attachments, no links, no other, more spam-like text.
Something is stripping out the image probably.
Yeah, it’s my strip_html() function.
I still want to know: *who* is behind all this? Do they actually make any money from it? If so, how?
seriously, who actually looks behind the word salad and says, oh! a poorly spelled advertisement for generic Viagra! I think I’ll send this person my money and swallow whatever capsules they send me!
Amber, no I meant there was probably an image in the spam that’s getting stripped out somewhere before it gets to your mailbox.
belledame222, as you may suspect, money from spamming is not made from selling the products “featured” in the email. the money is made by selling everything else: ads based on website hits, email addresses gathered by harvesting, spamming products to spammers, etc. Although most spam is sent by only a few people (through zombie networks), spammers also have no problem selling their spamming software to suckers that want to get in on it.
It’s also about fraud. Zombie networks can send millions of emails with almost no effort. All it takes is one idiot newbie a week or so to give up the credit card or other info.
My bad, I thought this was the other thread.