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Recently I've been getting strange spam, which seems to serve no purpose. The format for the subject will be "Re: [random letters] [random phrase]" with a body of random words. However, I've realized that the body is almost a Best of Word of the Day, so I thought I'd share two recent examples:


From: Chung <zxbkpfdhlgw@cnnic.net.cn>
To: [various Cornell addresses]
Subject: Re: CR, the strangely dressed

condensible nymphomania carp betel hibernate ounce fresno t entranceway harlan rent experiential allusion solstice kent conundrum cowboy counterexample million prosody


From: Irving <ewgxkzqcm@canada.com>
To: [Cornell address]
Subject: Re: XDDWCZ, the procurators order
CC: [various Cornell addresses]

bisexual surjective cheekbone rummage unipolar transmutation rehearsal meritorious thorpe calder idolatry turf bedspread jess brainchildren indubitable kentucky illegal manitoba penalty announce anatomy blot

possibility

Date: 2004-02-02 12:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eitri.livejournal.com
chances are that they're two-part messages, both plain text and html. i'd imagine your mail app is only displaying the plain text portion. if you view the source of the messages, if you can, you'll most likely see the actual content, not that you necessarily want to...

Re: possibility

Date: 2004-02-03 08:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skreidle.livejournal.com
Yeeeah.

Recent one has some xhtml headers, a graphic and link to a "free cable tv! no more pay!" with </words> interjected to fool filters, and a massive set of real words, I suppose to fool the filters further, looking like a lot of English and thus not spam. Laaaame.

(I'm still using Eudora, execpt it's the Mac version at the moment.)

Re: possibility

Date: 2004-02-03 12:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eitri.livejournal.com
actually, x-html is probably eudora specific markup. eudora, for some reason, adds specific tags to email messages, all of which start with 'x-'. (if it were xhtml, without the dash, that'd be different) i'd imagine that the email is a simple html one, but i guess it doesn't matter too much.

Re: possibility

Date: 2004-02-03 05:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skreidle.livejournal.com
Latest one, following the standard header, we have:

Content-Type: text/html;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit

<x-html><!x-stuff-for-pete base="" src="" id="0" charset="iso-8859-1/macintosh"><HTML><HEAD>
<BODY>
<p>Fr</millennium>ee Ca</permalloy>ble% TV</p>
<a href="http://www.303hosting.com/cable/">
<img border="0" src="http://www.303hosting.com/fiter1.jpg"></a>
taxicab euterpe rube metamorphosis neve welsh vainglorious scurvy adhesive holly exclusionary auxiliary decimate downhill brass parse cleanup <BR>

[more random words]

</BODY>
</HTML>

</x-html>

Nice, eh?

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