Strange spam

[skreidle]

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

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

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Comments

[deusinnomen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, actually, I've been trying to fine tune my SpamAssassin setup to nail these damned things. The first guy was right, they're multi-part messages. The second one is a "Content-Type: text/html" message that contains a spam message.

But yeah, any email that's "[A-Z]{2,8}, word word word" is a spam. ;)

Re:

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Apparently Eudora doesn't like displaying x-html, which is what the real content of these seems to be--still interspersed with </words> to break up spam triggers.

And, yes. :)