A Tribute to Spammers: Alternate spellings of Viagra

Post by **Dale** » Tue May 18, 2004 5:57 am

v*i*a*g*r*a
V iagra
Vi agra
via gra
viag ra
viagr a
viahgra
via/gra
v/i/a/g/r/a
v\i\a\g\r\a
veagra
violinra
viodegradable-gra
viola-graux
rhinoviagroidd
vinogrande
vincentpricegra

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:28 am

How about a new one -

viciouslittleslimewormswhoshouldallbedrawnandquarteredagra

I tried for a while to get these things intop my spam blocker but gave up in disgust. The nasty little buggerers just keep changing.

Kuranes · Post by **Kuranes** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:32 am

This is from my spam filter's word list. I use a bayesian filter (bogofilter) and you have to feed it spam so it can generate a collection of words.

V!agra
V'1'a'g'r'a
V'1'a'g'r'a!
V'I'A'G'R'A
V'i'a'g'r'a
V'l'a'g'r'a
V-i-a-g-r-a
V-iagra
V.1AGRA
V.I.A.G.R.A
V.i.a.g.r
V.i.a.g.r.a
V.i.a.g.ra
V.iagra
V0iaigra
V1-a-gra
V1AG
V1AGR
V1AGR-A
V1AGRA
V1AGr
V1AgR
V1Agr
V1agara
V1agr
V1agra
V1agra!
VAIRGA
VI.A.G.R.A
VIAG
VIAG9RA
VIAGARA
VIAGDRA
VIAGR
VIAGRA
VIAGRA!
VIAGRRA
VIAGRgA
VIAGRnA
VIAGRnoA
VIAGRooA
VIAGRrA
VIAGRtA
VIAGRzxA
VIAGcRA
VIAGeRA
VIAGgRA
VIAGiRA
VIAGmRA
VIAGqRA
VIAGsRA
VIAGxRA
VIAGzRA
VIGARA
VIWGRA
VIaAGRA
VIkAGRA
VIlAGRA
VIrAGRA
VIuAGRA
VIzAGRA
V_I_A_G_R_A
Vaagra
Vagira
Vagria
Vaiagra
Vbiagrra
Vdagra
Vdiagdra
Vdiagtra
Vdiagxra
Veagra
Vfagra
Vfiagtra
Vgagra
Vhagra
Vhiagura
Vi'agra
Vi-a-gra
Vi-ag-ra
Vi.ag.ra
Vi.agra
ViAagra
ViCagra
ViFagra
ViGagra
ViZagra
Via-gr-a
Via-gra
Via-gra..Half
Via.gra
Via3gra
Via4gra
Via93gra
ViaAEgra
ViaAgra
ViaDgra
ViaDygra
ViaEgRra
ViaGgra
ViaIgra
ViaNjrga
ViaQgra
ViaWgra
ViaYgra
ViaZgra
Viaaga
Viaagra
Viaagura
Viabhgra<99>
Viacgra
Viadgra
Viaegra
Viafgra
Viafgra<99>
Viag
Viag-r-a
ViagAUra
ViagBYra
ViagCra
ViagEra
ViagFLra
ViagGrJa
ViagJrDa
ViagMkra
ViagOCra
ViagQroa
ViagUPra
ViagWrFa
ViagZra
Viagafra
Viagara
Viagbra
Viagcra
Viagera
ViaggrCa
Viaggra
Viaggrda
Viagh
ViagjDra
Viagkra
Viaglra
Viagmrca
Viagndra
ViagqLra
Viagr
ViagrCoa
ViagrLra
ViagrMxa
ViagrZda
Viagra
Viagra!
Viagra's
ViagraOnline
ViagraXOnline
Viagraa
Viagrand
Viagras
Viagrax
Viagrcpa
ViagrdZa
Viagrhta
Viagrmta
ViagrnKa
Viagrna
ViagrpLa
Viagrqa
Viagrra
Viagrrla
Viagrta
Viagrua
Viagsra
ViagtDra
Viagv
ViagvrLa
ViagwrFa
Viagxara
Viagxra
Viahgra
ViahrgVa
Viaigra
Viajgra
Viakgra
Viamgra
Viaogra
Viaprmga
Viaqra
.
.
.

Okay, I've had enough. There's probably over three times that in the wordlist, though.

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Tue May 18, 2004 7:41 am

Anybody that is on Juno should be checking their email on the web and using their "Report Junk" mail function. We used to get 10 times as many junk emails as regular. We have been reporting our junk now for a few months and it has all but stopped.

I did have an incident last night with an eBay email. I have a couple of transactions going through on the selling side and responded too quickly to it. I realized it MIGHT have been a bogus and immediately cancelled my credit card and changed my eBay password.

Oh well, I did not like that credit card number anyway.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Tue May 18, 2004 8:27 am

Are you guys still getting Viagra spam? My spammers have switched to Ci@llis long ago!

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Tue May 18, 2004 9:56 am

I like the porno soundtrack music on Cialis tv commercials. It cracks me up, everytime. The only spam I got for any of that stuff was when I maintained a hotmail account for Instant Messaging. FWIW, Yahoo SBC DSL filters it all out, seemingly.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Tue May 18, 2004 10:13 am

I'm very impressed with the quality of the spam filter on the newer Netscape and Mozilla email clients, just FYI. It's a "training" system: for the first few days you have to click on the "junk" button once for each spam mail; then it learns and goes on automatic mode (you can set it to send all suspected spam to its own folder and delete it after 14 days). We've been using it at home for a few months, and there's been very little that goes through, and virtually no false positives.

Séan O'Neil · Post by **Séan O'Neil** » Tue May 18, 2004 10:20 am

We've been using it at home for a few months, and there's been very little that goes through, and virtually no false positives.

Well that's right, but after a certain time (half a year) there are coming more and more again!

waitingame · Post by **waitingame** » Tue May 18, 2004 10:22 am

glauber wrote: My spammers have switched to Ci@llis long ago!

Apparently the Ci@llis spammers go on longer.

antstastegood · Post by **antstastegood** » Tue May 18, 2004 10:54 am

Spam was the first place I ever heard of c-i-a-|-i-5

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Tue May 18, 2004 11:26 am

I personally am touched that all of these people are so concerned with the size of my penis, and it's proper functioning...

Kuranes · Post by **Kuranes** » Tue May 18, 2004 11:33 am

glauber wrote:I'm very impressed with the quality of the spam filter on the newer Netscape and Mozilla email clients, just FYI. It's a "training" system: for the first few days you have to click on the "junk" button once for each spam mail; then it learns and goes on automatic mode (you can set it to send all suspected spam to its own folder and delete it after 14 days). We've been using it at home for a few months, and there's been very little that goes through, and virtually no false positives.

I have to say the same thing about bogofilter -- it's made email useful again. A whitelist + Bayesian filter is the best way to go.

BTW, how much spam do you get? I get about 200 pieces of spam per day and bogofilter runs at about 90% effectivness (so about 20 per day get through).

For anyone interested in bayesian spam filters (which is what all the 'training' ones are), this is a must-read:

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

This is the paper that resulted in most of the current bayesian filters.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Tue May 18, 2004 11:54 am

brewerpaul wrote:I personally am touched that all of these people are so concerned with the size of my penis, and it's proper functioning...

I wonder, though. Do I really need larger breasts?

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Tue May 18, 2004 2:24 pm

Darwin wrote:
brewerpaul wrote:I personally am touched that all of these people are so concerned with the size of my penis, and it's proper functioning...
I wonder, though. Do I really need larger breasts?

In a word, Yes! The END OF THE WORLD is fast approaching and when famine strikes, you'll welcome every bit of stored fat that you can squirrel away now.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Tue May 18, 2004 2:32 pm

Darwin wrote:I wonder, though. Do I really need larger breasts?

My breasts are large enough, thank you very much.

I've been noticing a new kind of spam that's probably an attempt to go around the bayesian filters: these are emails that have a lot of "non-spam" content. For example: 1 page of spam-related links followed by 10 or 20 pages of jokes.

I like Spamcop, and it seems to work to a certain extent. When the volume of spam that gets past Yahoo's filters starts being enough to annoy me, i start a 100% spamcop reporting policy. Usually this cuts down the volume of spam significantly after a few days of reporting. There is ome evidence, though, that the ISPs that work with the spammers are using spamcop reports to get rid of the troublesome addresses (the people who report) while keeping the others. But at least you feel like you're doing something.

The next level of spammers are going to be using compromised home computers with high-speed Internet connections to send spam that's going to be almost impossible to filter. You can buy lists of these zombie computers in the black market; i heard the going rate is a thousand dollars for 500 zombies...