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Most pockets believe that onlooker of require assistance from satellite from.alchemist for operate a small fruit stand with graduated cylinder living with bullfrog.Lynn and I took paycheck from microscope (with carpet tack defined by waif, customer beyond recliner.

Unlike so many midwives who have made their foreign squid to us.

I got this e-mail today. WTF does this mean?
 

Nohr

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I've been getting spams with some random gibberish in them for months now. I guess it's supposed to confuse you in to looking at it?
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: Nohr
I've been getting spams with some random gibberish in them for months now. I guess it's supposed to confuse you in to looking at it?

Almost. Actually, it is ther to fool the spam filters.

A biggy that many are using now is white lettering:| You get a piece of spam, but when yol select the whole thing, you see that it is in the middle of a document, to fool the filters:|
 

ViRGE

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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Almost. Actually, it is ther to fool the spam filters.
Ya, it's a combination of two tactics: hash busting, and content checks. Each email has a semi-random word set, so each email is different, and hence won't hash out to be the same thing, meaning you can't block copies like you can normal spam(i.e. someone notices it's spam, reports it, all other pieces of email with the same hash are marked as spam). As for the content checks, this bypasses them by fleshing out the email(since filters will mark it down for being short), and decreasing the ratio of "bad words" to normal words.