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Weird Spam

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Am I the only one who has been getting stream of consciousness spam lately? This latest one had the subject of ‘diagnose jerky,’ and the text stated:

“Unlike so many brides who have made their molten sandwich to us.When ball bearing near food stamp laughs out loud, coward about mortician daydreams.”

I have been getting a lot like this.

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    Jeffrey Collins

    I was getting that weird stream of consciousness stuff for a couple of months but I think my spam filter finally picked up on it. Lately I’ve been getting lots of Russian spam.

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    Russ

    I think I’ve read somewhere that it’s an ongoing attempt to defeat Bayesian filters. By “teaching” your anti-spam filters that ordinary “non-spam” words are spam, they hope that eventually you’ll have to dial back your spam protection… thus letting more of the crap through.

    Alternately, they’re hoping that a high proportion of “non-spam” words in the mail will cause your filters to start letting spam through.

    Either way, they’re bastards.

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    Slartibartfast

    I’m thinking it’s probably a Chinese-to-German-to-Japanese-to-English Babelfish translation of something perfectly straightforward.

    Or it could be the Bayesian thing.

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