Cryptic Writing, Emails that make you go Huh?
 
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meggs
post Dec 3 2007, 03:16 PM
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Every once in a while I get bizaar spam. So far, I know very few people who get these types of cryptic jibberish (that somehow get past a spam filter):

promulgate capacitance fraud bedazzle grosset willa degas sumerian menelaus glendale northwestern
myself glendale vintner inexorable deadlock degas fraud
maxim synchrony kudzu sumerian
bake wacke
mario mario revisal goldman want theme revisal
literate cryptogram wicket menelaus capacitance maxim mario protozoan embassy
maxim halloween wacke hettie myself
mario glendale
protozoan bake vintner embassy bitch capacitance literate mollusk



there is never a product endorsement, nor a link to a website, just a bunch of weirdo words. It has now become a quite humorous to try to figure out a sentence.

using your creativity, haha, what do you think this email is about?

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meggs
post Dec 3 2007, 03:55 PM
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Gaaaaaa
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Guest
post Dec 3 2007, 04:27 PM
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It's because email spam filters weed out all the common ad words. So they are sending out absolute crap these days. The days of spam are coming to an end. People are not looking at ads and spam anymore. No one cares about advertising. No one has any money to buy anything anyways. I just laugh at the spam because it all gets filtered out with Outlook. Losers.
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watcher
post Dec 3 2007, 06:19 PM
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I can honestly say meggs i have never had an email that looked like that
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red jack
post Dec 3 2007, 07:25 PM
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it's about a guy called "menelaus"... go on think somemore... you'll get it soon.
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Guest
post Dec 3 2007, 09:07 PM
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I got this one today. I can't figure it out either.

" tong martensite stand crime tong hibernia obtrusion midas peacetime
regression involution skywave arctangent juneau hibernia epiphany
folio translucent crime stand alibi
rockaway crime electrician borate arctangent tong jude zigzagging translucent zigzagging
terminus defend borate alibi

broth deputy zigzagging diatom applicate arctangent
positron

translucent involution tong juneau haphazard applicate spavin spavin applicate vegetarian deputy "
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red jack
post Dec 3 2007, 09:21 PM
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QUOTE (Guest @ Dec 3 2007, 09:07 PM) *
I got this one today. I can't figure it out either.

" tong martensite stand crime tong hibernia obtrusion midas peacetime
regression involution skywave arctangent juneau hibernia epiphany
folio translucent crime stand alibi
rockaway crime electrician borate arctangent tong jude zigzagging translucent zigzagging
terminus defend borate alibi

broth deputy zigzagging diatom applicate arctangent
positron

translucent involution tong juneau haphazard applicate spavin spavin applicate vegetarian deputy "


well, I don't know about that one, cause I didn't send it... oops!
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blush
post Dec 3 2007, 09:24 PM
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QUOTE (meggs @ Dec 3 2007, 03:16 PM) *
Every once in a while I get bizaar spam. So far, I know very few people who get these types of cryptic jibberish (that somehow get past a spam filter):

promulgate capacitance fraud bedazzle grosset willa degas sumerian menelaus glendale northwestern
myself glendale vintner inexorable deadlock degas fraud
maxim synchrony kudzu sumerian
bake wacke
mario mario revisal goldman want theme revisal
literate cryptogram wicket menelaus capacitance maxim mario protozoan embassy
maxim halloween wacke hettie myself
mario glendale
protozoan bake vintner embassy bitch capacitance literate mollusk



there is never a product endorsement, nor a link to a website, just a bunch of weirdo words. It has now become a quite humorous to try to figure out a sentence.

using your creativity, haha, what do you think this email is about?


What's with the bio references...?
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blush
post Dec 3 2007, 09:25 PM
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QUOTE (red jack @ Dec 3 2007, 09:21 PM) *

well, I don't know about that one, cause I didn't send it... oops!


There seems to be a lot of "science" and "math" related terms lol or am I just reading too much into it.
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Guest
post Dec 3 2007, 09:36 PM
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This one came today too:

askew
cowlick effluent magistrate effluent magistrate groupoid askew glom askew peculate askew imperfect waterfront
magistrate clothier cowlick insofar swim
peculate al horrendous glutinous pansy corsage twin pyrometer flyway gumbo
nelsen
crocodilian
inference plumbago pyrometer crocodilian vice glutinous crocodilian plumbago
infra
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Buddha
post Dec 3 2007, 11:14 PM
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i just watched the di vince code today i need more time
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meggs
post Dec 4 2007, 12:45 AM
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QUOTE (blush @ Dec 3 2007, 09:25 PM) *
There seems to be a lot of "science" and "math" related terms lol or am I just reading too much into it.


I see that too.

I can read it and come to my own conclusions, but I have had a very open profile about science and math on discussion boards before, so what I could interpret from it, coud really be out in left feild. and in true honesty, I would think it is a jackass.


so why the new trend of this style of spam (as a couple of guests posted they have recieved similar)?


a program mincing words, and spamming? or a person who is being rediculous?
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Guest
post Dec 4 2007, 06:16 AM
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If you google one line you get some university sites.
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Nagi
post Dec 4 2007, 07:51 AM
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I got one too,
"onto


bissau bedazzle grosset papyrus bedazzle protozoan dragoon degas
gelatine halloween papyrus maxim advisee synchrony dragoon revisal wicket
capacitance mario bissau sanitarium halloween wacke
inexorable willa slater grosset cryptogram


advisee hettie hettie kudzu mollusk
cryptogram capacitance fraction revisal deadlock vintner gelatine halloween wacke grosset


embassy"

The subject was "chairlady papyrus northwestern"
Its written in letter format, to "Onto" from "Embassy". Im not an onto, at least to my knowledge, so there is the possibility that it was not actually for me.
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Guest
post Dec 4 2007, 08:03 AM
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What you are seeing are spammers trying to circumvent spam filters by using gibberish that won't generate scores on the various software used to filter spam messages. There is probably an image with the advertised product or service that your e-mail software is (wisely) not loading. From the Wikipedia article on Email Spam:

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"As Bayesian filtering has become popular as a spam-filtering technique, spammers have started using methods to weaken it. To a rough approximation, Bayesian filters rely on word probabilities. If a message contains many words which are only used in spam, and few which are never used in spam, it is likely to be spam. To weaken Bayesian filters, some spammers, alongside the sales pitch, now include lines of irrelevant, random words, in a technique known as Bayesian poisoning. A variant on this tactic may be borrowed from the Usenet abuser known as "Hipcrime" -- to include passages from books taken from Project Gutenberg, or nonsense sentences generated with "dissociated press" algorithms. Randomly generated phrases can create spoetry (spam poetry) or spam art.

After these nonsense subject lines were recognized as spam, the next trend in spam subjects started: Biblical passages. A program much like Mark V Shaney is fed Bible passages and chops them up into segments. The reasoning is that this text, often very different from the writing style of today such as the King James Version, will confuse both humans and spam filters.

Another method used to masquerade spam as legitimate messages is the use of autogenerated sender names in the From: field, ranging from realistic ones such as "Jackie F. Bird" to (either by mistake or intentionally) bizarre attention-grabbing names such as "Sloppiest U. Epiglottis" or "Attentively E. Behavioral". Return addresses are also routinely auto-generated, often using unsuspecting domain owners' legitimate domain names, leading some users to blame the innocent domain owners. Blocking lists use ip addresses rather than sender domain names, as these are more accurate. A mail purporting to be from example.com can be seen to be faked by looking for the originating ip address in the mails header, and Sender Policy Framework for example helps by stating that example.com will only send email from xx.xx.xx.xx ip."
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watcher
post Dec 4 2007, 08:41 AM
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if you all got one i feel left out must be my avatar
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buzz
post Dec 4 2007, 09:35 AM
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QUOTE (Guest @ Dec 3 2007, 04:27 PM) *
It's because email spam filters weed out all the common ad words. So they are sending out absolute crap these days. The days of spam are coming to an end. People are not looking at ads and spam anymore. No one cares about advertising. No one has any money to buy anything anyways. I just laugh at the spam because it all gets filtered out with Outlook. Losers.



YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY....
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red jack
post Dec 4 2007, 03:23 PM
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sorry guys... I promise not to mail them junk mails again... here's one I was planning to mail to you all:
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah, blah...


blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah, blah...
yawn... zzz...


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red jack
post Dec 4 2007, 03:25 PM
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QUOTE (red jack @ Dec 4 2007, 03:23 PM) *
sorry guys... I promise not to mail them junk mails again... here's one I was planning to mail to you all:
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah, blah...


blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah...
blah, blah, blah, blah...
yawn... zzz...


Bl00dy cryptic, eh?
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meggs
post Dec 4 2007, 03:29 PM
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Hahaha
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