Strange Spam

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mart
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Re: Strange Spam-ah?

Post by mart »

Well, if it does get through the filters, wtf is it for? Seems a bit pointless to go to all that effort if nobody knows what its about.
I got a different kind of strange spam same time ago - I think I posted it on here. It purported to be offering a reward to anyone who could find a source of some Scifi sounding piece of equipment. Real Trekkie stuff.

Mart

Deuce Bigolo
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Re: Strange Spam

Post by Deuce Bigolo »

Seems perfectly simple to me

The Jumble of words is a new way of spamming a site or sites

It works on 2 levels

One to beat the spam filters

Second to get your attention through the use of Mystery which is meant to pique your need to know

As you pointed out with all the other spam-you don't click any links because you know what is on offer

cheers
B....OZ
nosey
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Re: Strange Spam

Post by nosey »

I simply don't bother opening spam if I don't know who it is from. I just click my report spam button in AOL8.
mart
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Re: Strange Spam-ah?

Post by mart »

Ah, you didn't tell us that before.

Mart

jj
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Re: Strange Spam

Post by jj »

....or in this case, you don't click any links because you DON'T know what's on offer........
"a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification...."
crofter
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Re: Strange Spam

Post by crofter »

worse still you don?t get any links to click in the stuff I get, now that really fucking annoys me ... plus the letters are jumbled up to make no meaningful words or phrases, this stuff seems to originate only from a yahoo mailer in my case.
PEOPLE think Stephen Hawking is so clever, but when you ask him a question and he is typing in the answer on his little screen, how do we know he isn't just looking up the answer on the Internet?
Deuce Bigolo
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Re: Strange Spam

Post by Deuce Bigolo »

There's one born every minute JJ

Not all people are aware of how vulnerable they are on the net
which is what those pricks who set up remote dialers count on

I'll guarantee there will be a few who throw caution to the wind
just because 'they gots to know'.

Some poeple just can't resist

Think of it as picking out a Lucky Dip...the thrill of the chase

cheers
B....OZ
jj
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Re: Strange Spam

Post by jj »

My missus reckons that 90% of all spam originates in one small town in America (no, I don't know where she got that from).
If true, one small thermonuclear device would solve an awful lot of problems........
"a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification...."
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