BlitherSpam

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:32 am

I am seeing one or two of these a day, lately (see below). The Subject is a string of unrelated words. The body is a series of unrelated fragments, as if someone had scanned part of a sentence in a bunch of different news stories. There is no hidden message I can see, like the ones advertising for Viagra or anything like that.

The worst part is the Sender. Sometimes it says it has come from Windows, or a name I don't recognize, or sometimes even from me (scary!). There are no attachments that I can see.

So what is the purpose of this sort of spam? Does anyone else receive junk like this? I am having trouble thinking of what purpose this is supposed to serve, if any.

djm

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Subject: through Mom

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emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:34 am

I've gotten nonsense as well. I don't know what it signifies.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:41 am

Wow. That's wierd. Maybe the sender is just using this mail to test his
system to see if it would get through before inserting the actual spam.
If there's an embedded webbug, the point may be to collect the
addresses of people with HTML mail reading turned on.

There also was a system that had a lot of gibberish that was the same
color as the background, to get past the filter. The real text was a
color that could be seen by the human but didn't stand out for the
computer filter. Perhaps that's the case here, but you haven't turned
on the mail setting (probably HTML reading) that the spammer
expects...

Or, maybe the spammer is really just that bad at English!

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 3:19 pm

Most spam filters work on trigger words, but they as they are refined they only label the email as spam if there are enough trigger-words in proportion to the rest of the message. After all, the trigger words are liable to occur in extracts of text from, say, general drug analyses, or the average modern novel.

By filling the email up with near-random words, these emails skew the proportion of trigger-words to the rest of the text, and have a better chance of slipping past your spam filter.

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:57 pm

Thanks, IB. That's a clear explanation, and it makes sense. But as you can see from the above, there's nothing in the contents that could be construed as meaningful. It ALL seems to be extraneous overload material. :shrug:

djm

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:29 pm

Spam to untrain spam filters.

more on Slashdot.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:02 pm

Thx, BF. That is so evil. I mean really eeeeeevvill. It is so very eeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvviiiillllll that .