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"Spammers Embrace Classic Literature"

You've probably been getting some of these emails.  Their subject lines are full of interesting-sounding language, but the message itself is just gibberish.  From the article

"The most common theory about these messages," Carlo wrote, "is that they're part of a slightly long-term attempt to confuse spam filters, in the hopes that users will label them as spam and throw off the filters so later spam that actually includes some sort of commercial message, gets through."

My personal favorite so far:

what kindnesshomely it's payinggreen what sovkhozmason or paulichastity what wahlnotre or groupimitation or expertsheep was slaverylatvia when planetsbalanced some hungryben and commodityirreplaceable in mineobliged but prostateinlaid the growncoriander in causedcomfortable when feelsbomb the weremarksmen on platouniversity on brightlyconcluded and highestwrapping

"Feelsbomb the weremarksmen?" Now, that's just damn good writing. 

Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 at 01:24PM by Registered CommenterMark Leahy, Web Editor in | CommentsPost a Comment

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