I have been getting some very strange spam lately....

Iron Woode

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here is an example:

You probably think "just run through it" but I couldn't.
I can tell that this new found celebrity is a little overwhelming for him but he is very genuine about it.
We are actively working on removing the dirt.
Call the sheriff, not me, I told the caller. Then we would tie one side of the spool on one mailbox and run to the other side and tie off on that mailbox. This was off the dirt area they were on.
When I explain you will soon relate to what I mean.
En usant du pretexte de l'intoxication chimique des sens, l'hemisphere droit s'autorise alors a parler plus librement delivre qu'il est de son interprete permanent. Finally, when we got to the street the kids stopped and we had a chat.
However, today I parted with the shoes that served me well this year. Frustrated, I hung up and drove over to the dirt piles.
I need to get new shoes more often. She went on to explain that she would have to call the local installer to see when they though they would be getting the boxes in.
I was going to get out and talk to them but the bikers started to get antsy and made a run for it.
Plus, the guy played guitar, harmonica, drums. "What company writes your paychecks?
- What about saturated Fats?
Now, they were tearing up our turf. However, I wasn't great at increasing my distance over the summer.
That wasn't the point.
So I signed up a month ago and turned this Boulder Backroads race into a training run for my biggest race yet.
We can't break up a work order.
Everybody was pretty stoked to see him.
Call the sheriff, not me, I told the caller.
The dirt attracts kids from all over. We can't break up a work order. A car could just blow right through that. - Fat does not make you fat. He jogged over and used the port-o-pot. I can tell that this new found celebrity is a little overwhelming for him but he is very genuine about it.


and some are just a sentence fragment that makes little sense:

Floyd had a large and ugly pistol in his hand now which didn't slow

:confused:

 

1sikbITCH

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I get the picture with the stock tip. I get 5 or 10 a day sometimes. They are just jumbled parts of sentences that seem to be strung together. In Outlook the picture is an attachment that I never open. I just keep on banning and deleting them.

I participate on Freecycle, and once when I was donating something, a bunch of people responded to my email, and then I started getting spammed. If you know how to make it stop, I'm all ears.
 

iamaelephant

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I got this one from Sammy Smart (?) today.

Golf is a good walk spoilt. Mark Twain The head and feet keep warm, the rest will take no harm. Two's company, three's a crowd. Law is the solemn expression of legislative will. CODE NAPOLEON Possible Interpretation: You cannot explain what some people like.
If your problem has a solution, why to worry. If your problem doesnt have a solution, why to worry The problem with alcohol is sobriety. He who dies with the most toys is nevertheless still dead.
No crows, no cares. It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. If you can't join them, beat them. Give the Devil his due.
Nothing succeeds like success. Possible Interpretation: He will talk about consequences more than act. or when it rains, it pours. Good fences make good neighbors. Long experience of someone or something can make one so aware of the faults as to be scornful. The proof of the pudding is in the eating=


No attachments, no advertisements, nothing. What is up with these?
 

Sukhoi

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Originally posted by: iamaelephant
I got this one from Sammy Smart (?) today.

Golf is a good walk spoilt. Mark Twain The head and feet keep warm, the rest will take no harm. Two's company, three's a crowd. Law is the solemn expression of legislative will. CODE NAPOLEON Possible Interpretation: You cannot explain what some people like.
If your problem has a solution, why to worry. If your problem doesnt have a solution, why to worry The problem with alcohol is sobriety. He who dies with the most toys is nevertheless still dead.
No crows, no cares. It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. If you can't join them, beat them. Give the Devil his due.
Nothing succeeds like success. Possible Interpretation: He will talk about consequences more than act. or when it rains, it pours. Good fences make good neighbors. Long experience of someone or something can make one so aware of the faults as to be scornful. The proof of the pudding is in the eating=


No attachments, no advertisements, nothing. What is up with these?

I've gotten those for years. No clue why.
 

Iron Woode

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Originally posted by: 1sikbITCH
I get the picture with the stock tip. I get 5 or 10 a day sometimes. They are just jumbled parts of sentences that seem to be strung together. In Outlook the picture is an attachment that I never open. I just keep on banning and deleting them.

I participate on Freecycle, and once when I was donating something, a bunch of people responded to my email, and then I started getting spammed. If you know how to make it stop, I'm all ears.
I don't know how to make them stop. I wish I knew.

Each email address is spoofed, so there is no way to opt out.

I am getting about 3 - 5 of them a day.

Thunderbird is trashing them as fast as they come in.
 

theknight571

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Originally posted by: tm37
Originally posted by: Accipiter22
is there a picture with a stock tip attached? if so, PM me please

Are the stock tips working for you?

LOL... If they are... let me know too. I'll have to stop deleting them. :)
 

alkemyst

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I get these still in my inbox...I have a spam filter (heuristic) to learn the patterns and after a month or so they are ending up in junk mail pretty regularly.

It's a PITA though.
 

orakle

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Originally posted by: Skel
I get these a lot.

I get these stock tips all the time.. Gmail is good at throwing out most of them but I do get 1-2 spams every 2 days that slip into my Inbox.
 

Perknose

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Originally posted by: alkemyst
I get these still in my inbox...I have a spam filter (heuristic) to learn the patterns and after a month or so they are ending up in junk mail pretty regularly.

It's a PITA though.
Bingo for your problems, OP.

Spam like this uses wholesale random quotes to get by the filters, as what they quote fits no known spam pattern with no particular triggers in the text and can successfully mimic genuine regular text because the quotes are.

My goggle mail spam filter beats these down like a borrowed mule, however.

 

tk149

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Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: alkemyst
I get these still in my inbox...I have a spam filter (heuristic) to learn the patterns and after a month or so they are ending up in junk mail pretty regularly.

It's a PITA though.
Bingo for your problems, OP.

Spam like this uses wholesale random quotes to get by the filters, as what they quote fits no known spam pattern with no particular triggers in the text and can successfully mimic genuine regular text because the quotes are.

My goggle mail spam filter beats these down like a borrowed mule, however.

But if there is no link to a website, or company, or email, or anything, why are these being sent out?
 

Perknose

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Originally posted by: tk149
Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: alkemyst
I get these still in my inbox...I have a spam filter (heuristic) to learn the patterns and after a month or so they are ending up in junk mail pretty regularly.

It's a PITA though.
Bingo for your problems, OP.

Spam like this uses wholesale random quotes to get by the filters, as what they quote fits no known spam pattern with no particular triggers in the text and can successfully mimic genuine regular text because the quotes are.

My goggle mail spam filter beats these down like a borrowed mule, however.

But if there is no link to a website, or company, or email, or anything, why are these being sent out?
Don't open them anymore and, if you somehow feel you must, don't enable "display images" in your e-mail proggy.

 

CrackRabbit

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Originally posted by: tk149
Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: alkemyst
I get these still in my inbox...I have a spam filter (heuristic) to learn the patterns and after a month or so they are ending up in junk mail pretty regularly.

It's a PITA though.
Bingo for your problems, OP.

Spam like this uses wholesale random quotes to get by the filters, as what they quote fits no known spam pattern with no particular triggers in the text and can successfully mimic genuine regular text because the quotes are.

My goggle mail spam filter beats these down like a borrowed mule, however.

But if there is no link to a website, or company, or email, or anything, why are these being sent out?

testing spam filters, or looking for valid email addys
 

Umberger

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Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: alkemyst
I get these still in my inbox...I have a spam filter (heuristic) to learn the patterns and after a month or so they are ending up in junk mail pretty regularly.

It's a PITA though.
Bingo for your problems, OP.

Spam like this uses wholesale random quotes to get by the filters, as what they quote fits no known spam pattern with no particular triggers in the text and can successfully mimic genuine regular text because the quotes are.

My goggle mail spam filter beats these down like a borrowed mule, however.

google spam filter FTW!!!
 

FilmCamera

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Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: tk149
Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: alkemyst
I get these still in my inbox...I have a spam filter (heuristic) to learn the patterns and after a month or so they are ending up in junk mail pretty regularly.

It's a PITA though.
Bingo for your problems, OP.

Spam like this uses wholesale random quotes to get by the filters, as what they quote fits no known spam pattern with no particular triggers in the text and can successfully mimic genuine regular text because the quotes are.

My goggle mail spam filter beats these down like a borrowed mule, however.

But if there is no link to a website, or company, or email, or anything, why are these being sent out?
Don't open them anymore and, if you somehow feel you must, don't enable "display images" in your e-mail proggy.

The images aren't gonna do anything. At least the ones I've been sent don't.
 

trmiv

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I get these too. Gmail filters them into spam though, but it's so weird they don't really have any obvious advertising in them.
 

iamaelephant

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Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: tk149
Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: alkemyst
I get these still in my inbox...I have a spam filter (heuristic) to learn the patterns and after a month or so they are ending up in junk mail pretty regularly.

It's a PITA though.
Bingo for your problems, OP.

Spam like this uses wholesale random quotes to get by the filters, as what they quote fits no known spam pattern with no particular triggers in the text and can successfully mimic genuine regular text because the quotes are.

My goggle mail spam filter beats these down like a borrowed mule, however.

But if there is no link to a website, or company, or email, or anything, why are these being sent out?
Don't open them anymore and, if you somehow feel you must, don't enable "display images" in your e-mail proggy.

Okay dude, you're not reading the posts here. There are no links, images, references to websites, nothing. Obviously the strange cryptic text is intended to bypass spam filters, but what we are wondering is what the hell the purpose of these emails is. Surely someone here must know? I'm baffled.
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: tk149

But if there is no link to a website, or company, or email, or anything, why are these being sent out?

There is a link and a company name in each...it depends on how good a job your client did on blocking it.

Apparently it pays off though much like the Nigerian scam.
 

tk149

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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: tk149

But if there is no link to a website, or company, or email, or anything, why are these being sent out?

There is a link and a company name in each...it depends on how good a job your client did on blocking it.

Apparently it pays off though much like the Nigerian scam.

As far as I know, Yahoo mail just dumps the message into a spam folder with no alterations. Lots of other spam in the same folder still contains links and graphics, including phishing emails.
 

Trikat

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Gmail filters out Spam pretty well for the emails I receive.
I just hope it doesn't filter out legit emails, but so far no problems at all.