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scottcsmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-04 04:52 PM
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Odd e-mails
I keep getting spam e-mails that contain a bunch of seemingly unrelated words. I'm sure there is a reason for it. What's going on, does anyone know? Here's a sample:

Out of energy...if so, I think I've found the answer

"amateurish catharsis mckesson pulse bengal given allowance inaccuracy nomogram clump dar dutchman get extralinguistic dainty debauch borrow bred haiku dissension crossbow postpone ambrose flute hydroelectric contradistinction exciton essence pyrolysis conclusion chieftain

http://rd.yahoo.com/M=276438.2475912.9261729.7004835/D=yahoo_top/S=6232185:LCC/A=7159288/R=0/*http://www.wholesalepharmasource.biz/h/index.php?AFF_ID=h2

contest aruba impartation celebrity grater demitting fungicide employee clank alcmena furry bromfield clash shenanigan jimmy ethnology atwater betide fermion footprint genesis gratitude"

Weird, huh?

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Systematic Chaos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-04 04:54 PM
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1. That's designed to confuse spam filters
These morans seem to be bound and determined to f**k up your day no matter what you do to try and block their inane BS from your existence. :(
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scottcsmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-04 04:59 PM
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2. 99% of my e-mail is this crap
I must have 500 e-mail addresses in my blocked senders list. It never ends.
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Amerpie Donating Member (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-04 05:02 PM
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3. Seen this?
Try highlighting all the text in a SPAM email sometime. Often, the SPAMMERS will use HTML code to change the text color to white on a white background to fit even more of those "fool the filter words: in an message.
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-04 05:06 PM
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4. But isn't spam usually advertising, to sell something?
Then what is the point of these gibberish emails? They're not giving a sales pitch or a URL to click on.

I also get several of these a day. Quite annoying.
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