The weirdest spam e-mail I've ever received

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Date : Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:39:03 +0400
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Besides the fact that the actual body of the e-mail is implying I can just buy a diploma... there are two giant paragraphs of the most brilliant insane free-poetry I've ever read. I want to make a song and use those as lyrics.

David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 13 June 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

There are tons of spam messages out there with all kinds of strange strings of words in them. There must be a reason -- anyone know?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 June 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know, I understand why dodgy websites put that shit in their meta tags but emails? Who knows!

ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Sunday, 13 June 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/000501.html

Dan I, Sunday, 13 June 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The more "real" words that spammers put into their emails (often hidden as very small text in the same colour as the background, when sent as HTML mail), the more likely it is that the mail will get past the filter that determines which mail is spam and which isn't. There's some measurement of how many words are spam words and which aren't, so those big blocks of random words lower the spam quotient.

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 13 June 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, sounds viable. learn something new everyday!

ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Sunday, 13 June 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

There must be a reason -- anyone know?

To confuse spam filters scanning tops and/or tails or those that use a weighting system based on "content" to determine something == spam.

This "technique" started in the computer virus underground, as one example, over a decade ago. Some anti-virus scanners could be confused by inserting the equivalent of garbage instructions, pseudo-nested loops, or other pieces of meaningless code in the head of the virus. In other words, it's a form of electronic jamming.

George Smith, Sunday, 13 June 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I got one the other day whose random closing sentence was full of fragile beauty.

Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 13 June 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been getting some serious Dadaist genius in my spam recently, I almost don't want to delete it but they're usually viruses so I sort of feel I have to.

Fergal (Ferg), Sunday, 13 June 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, apparently I still haven't deleted it:

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Fergal (Ferg), Sunday, 13 June 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

lovely indeed.

jed_ (jed), Sunday, 13 June 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Does "barely legal cum dumpsters" qualify as fragile beauty?

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 13 June 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"beyond dilettante hides"! Gorgeous.

Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 13 June 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Self flagellation and dilletantes = I think it is profound

Fergal (Ferg), Sunday, 13 June 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

yes lovely. and they are discrete. always good to know

saza bob, Monday, 14 June 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The spam spelt the word dilettante correctly and I did not.

Fergal (Ferg), Monday, 14 June 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The porno spam I've been getting has seemed a bit more arty lately...

latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 14 June 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/timetravelspam.html

Hello,

I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me. I am going to need a new DWG unit, prefereably the rechargeable AMD wrist watch model with the GRC79 induction motor, four I80200 warp stabilizers, 512GB of SRAM and the menu driven GUI with front panel XID display.

I will take whatever model you have in stock, as long as its received certification for being safe on carbon based life forms.

In terms of payment: I dont have any Galactic Credits left. Payment can be made in platinum gold or 2003 currency upon safe delivery of unit.

Please transport unit in either a brown paper bag or box to below coordinates on Monday July 28th at (exactly 3:00pm) Eastern Standard Time on the dot. A few minutes prior will be ok, but it cannot be after. If you miss this timeframe please email me.

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Although those coordinates are a secure guarded area, these channels through email are never secure. Unfortunately it is the only form of communication I have right now.

After unit has been sent please email me at: info@federalfundingprogram.com with payment instructions. Do not reply directly back to this email.

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Jon in R'lyeh (ex machina), Monday, 14 June 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I just found this in my inbox:

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Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I got one the other day with an apparently-randomized subject line of "[my name] labyrinth 112 wildebeast." My mind kinda boggled, because Labyrinth Books is on 112th Street, a block south of me. I thought maybe a wildebeast had gotten loose in there.

nabiscothingy, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...
Received today:

Päiväys: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:47:50 -0600
Lähettäjä: "Philippic E. Pawed"
Vastaanottaja: Ttalho
Otsikko: I've heard a lot about you

Touche!

Do widzenia


This the message in its whole; no attachments, no ads, no nothing. I have no idea who "Philippic E. Pawed" is or where he has heard of me...

Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 18 February 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

His e-mail address referred to a domain called tractor.com, so I checked out http://www.tractor.com/, and was even more confused.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Should I mail him back?

Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

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scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

As I got off the subway this morning I ran into a friend of mine and he showed me a paper copy he had been (air)mailed from London of the deposed African leader s(p|c)am. Anyone else receive a snail mail version of one of these?

Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Hey, man! :)

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

We may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
May you live all the days of your life.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse. Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.

A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men. The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble. Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't. We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

No furniture is so charming as books.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
It's sad that, in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers:

Na ave kashilwepo nawa

scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)


'Ello, 'ello, 'ello, what have we got here?
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads. The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.
I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.
I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them. Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. A land without ruins is a land without memories -- a land without memories is a land without history.
As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired. Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Mbae mi lukem yutufala


scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I got a message from Yasser Arafat's wife the other day. She wanted me to send her my bank details. Its hard enough to understand people falling for the Nigerian Bank thing, but do people really think "oh, its that nice Mrs. Arafat. I trust her!"?

hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Here's one full of advice...although some of it isn't very appropriate - "keep your mouth shut and your eyes open?" - hardly very suitable for a porn site, is it?

Hi I,

Do You like watching real live people, getting down and dirty. Well here you go for a limited time only you can get a Lifetime password at no charge, that's right no charge...

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Half a loaf is better than none.

Drop a penny leave it lay. Divide and conquer. . The meek shall inherit the earth. . Cold hands, warm heart. . To eat one's heart out.

All's fair in love and war.

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Actions speak louder than words. . It's not over till it's over. . Find a coin pick it up. Listen to the pot calling the kettle black. . There is no fool like an old fool. . See nothing, say nothing, know nothing. .

You never know what you can do till you try. . Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. . Honesty is the best policy. .


hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 18 February 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I got another spam like the one I posted upthread:

Päiväys: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:31:59 -0800
Lähettäjä: "Patent M. Spoilage"
Vastaanottaja: Ttalho
Otsikko: Adieu.

HOLA!

Chjetji


Again, this is the whole message: no ads, no attachments, nothing.
And www.immobilarea.it seems to be the homepage of some sort of Italian college. Does anyone know if this is caused by a virus, or what's the point of it?

Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 4 March 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

Oh, it doesn't show in my post, but the e-mail was sent by "phelps@immobilarea.it".

Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 4 March 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

I got a "nigerian spam" type offer via snail mail the other day!

Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 March 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Me too!

Just wondering, y'know those Christmas cards that are often sent out requesting a donation or return of the cards? Does anyone ever send them back?

Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

I've received a LOT of calls lately from different organizations that always start off by saying, "Now don't worry, we're not calling you for a donation. HOWEVER, we're offering you a chance to subscribe to some magazines...."

Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

You can register with a service that stops junk calls if you want, at least you can if you're in the UK.

http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/

Its worth doing - there's a form on the website. We haven't stopped getting junk calls altogether, but there are certainly a lot less - we were getting 5 or 6 a day at one point.

hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 4 March 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

The Nigerian scam is much older than the email version - scammers started using it via snail mail 20 or 30 years ago. It was much less common (and much less widely known), though, because of the expense involved in snail-mail spamming.

caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 4 March 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Oh - you can use tps to stop junk mail as well, apparently. I haven't bothered because I just chuck that in the recycling bag (which Birmingham City Council have so thoughtfully provided) as soon as it appears.

I probably sound like I'm getting a comission off them.

hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 4 March 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...
Holy crap! My most recent foreign-oil money-transfer scam came with PICTURES of the supposedly dying-of-cancer Persian man who wants me to take his fifteen BILLION dollars (distributing 90% to charity, per his dying wishes, and keeping 10% for myself). See, here's Mr. Mohan at the doctor's office:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/nitsuh/mohan3.jpg

Totally for real! (NB for a second I was gonna feel sorry for whatever unrelated person's pictures they dug up for this, but actually there are three pics, and in one of them the dude seems to be so overacting his pain and suffering that maybe spam has gotten to the point of doing its own photo shoots now? I dunno.)

nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, that head is totally photoshopped.

nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

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what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Sunday, 7 June 2009 11:12 (sixteen years ago)

Oh hey, I missed one of the urls with my e-mail in it and ILX edited it out for any anyway. Thanks ILX auto-whatever!

what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Sunday, 7 June 2009 11:14 (sixteen years ago)

I type good.

what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Sunday, 7 June 2009 11:14 (sixteen years ago)


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