hidden messages in SPAM email? wtf

[Schadenfroh]

one day i got bored and decided to exam the code for a SPAM add i got in an email. i started noticing bizzarre messages hidden in their source code that do not appear on the adds themselves. Then i started spotting them in several other pieces of SPAM, coming from differant sources. this is some wierd sh**. this was particular one was embedded in some spam wanting me to get a mortgage:


------=_NextPart_000_9473D_01C317CD.D82A6F20
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Christ are completed nine hundred and forty-six; from his incarnation,=0A=
nine hundred and seventy-six: being the fifth year of Edmund, king=0A=
of the Angles.=0A=
* And forty, according to Stevenson's new edition. The rest of=0A=
this chronology is much contracted in several of the manuscripts,=0A=
and hardly two of them contain it exactly the same.
------=_NextPart_000_9473D_01C317CD.D82A6F20
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

 

[webnewland]

messed up

 

[Wallydraigle]

I am the Spamti-Christ! The Age of Spam has begun!

 

[Furyline]

wtf indeed.
"King of the ANGLES"?!?!

 

[aircooled]

The Hormel people are behind it...

 

[Leetman]

weird.

 

[iwearnosox]

There's bible thumping quotes on the wrappers and cups of in and out burger, did you know that?

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
There's bible thumping quotes on the wrappers and cups of in and out burger, did you know that?

I did.

 

[weezergirl]

those are quotes from "History of the Britons" by Nennius. weird!

 

[LiQiCE]

My co-worker was telling me the other day that some company decided to put an anti-spam filter on their servers in such a fashion. They would put a haiku hidden and imbedded in their email. They also copyrighted the haiku so only their company had permission to use it. They started filtering their mail and only let mail with the haiku imbedded in the header get through.

So one ingenious spammer did the same thing to get his messages through ... and now that spammer has been slapped with a huge lawsuit for copyright infringement. Pretty smart eh?

Don't know if this has any relation to the story I just posted, but the hidden message in the header reminded me of that..

 

[Schadenfroh]

got another one in. here it is

------=_NextPart_000_3143BB_01C3189C.448B71E0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

How now! have you found any?=0A=
SHERWIN.=0A=
No, not one; they're all fled.=0A=
LINCOLN.
------=_NextPart_000_3143BB_01C3189C.448B71E0
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

 

[Nocturnal]

Perhaps it gets through the server and sent out to various recipients?

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: Furyline
wtf indeed.
"King of the ANGLES"?!?!

Actually I think that part is referring to King Edmund of the Angles, as in Anglo-Saxon.

 

[Howard]

You'd better forward your findings to the FBI. Could be the way domestic terrorists communicate, since there's really no way of telling who's using what mail address?

 

[NokiaDude]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
There's bible thumping quotes on the wrappers and cups of in and out burger, did you know that?

You mean they have bible quotes or do they have bible bashings on em?

 

[OutHouse]

wow that is some weird stuff. Im going to check my spam at work and see if i find anything interesting.

 

[Marauder-]

Originally posted by: LiQiCE
My co-worker was telling me the other day that some company decided to put an anti-spam filter on their servers in such a fashion. They would put a haiku hidden and imbedded in their email. They also copyrighted the haiku so only their company had permission to use it. They started filtering their mail and only let mail with the haiku imbedded in the header get through.

So one ingenious spammer did the same thing to get his messages through ... and now that spammer has been slapped with a huge lawsuit for copyright infringement. Pretty smart eh?

Don't know if this has any relation to the story I just posted, but the hidden message in the header reminded me of that..

Hey if they filtered all that other mail out, how would they receive mail from potential clients or what not?