Jasper
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 03:23 PM |
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Strange emails today.....
I wonder if anybody else is getting these. I've had about 6 or 8 emails like this today, all with different but rather unusual text. No links or
pictures or anything else on them.Here's the latest.
"Did you see anything strange in the garage. Just two words!" out beyond the Far Cliffs. His one sorrow was not solituile, it was
that
The sergeant saluted and disappeared, and Willy slammed the file shut again in that trembling hard curve - slowing, slowing, and stalling
once
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 03:35 PM |
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 ,mine seem to be failed delivery....to someone ive never sent a mail to
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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Jasper
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 03:36 PM |
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Had lots of those too ......
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Fozzie
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 03:37 PM |
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Jasper I have been getting those for a couple of days now...and ntl are supposed to have a spam filter in operation! 
Here is an exact copy of my latest gobbledegook....
'saw each other once, but very briefly, of course."
everything that had seemed like nonsense and the delirious ravings of a
undulated, and tiny rainbows exploded and died in the air. Redrick looked at......'
Thats it, word for word, nowt left out...
Fozzie 
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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ReMan
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 03:37 PM |
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Don't know , but I guess they're trying to "curious" you into replying.
Then once they know you're email address is genuine, you'll be spammed to deeth
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iank
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 03:47 PM |
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yep, got 3 today. different text
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 03:49 PM |
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i never open mails from peeps i dont know,some from peeps i do know as well
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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v8kid
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 04:21 PM |
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Yea I've been getting them for a while whats the point? I just assume they are up to no good and delete the little darlings.
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timwest167
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 05:02 PM |
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For what it's worth...
Googled the phrases.
All can be found on this web page...
http://www.davar.net/EXTRACTS/FICTION/PICNIC.HTM
Translation of a Russian novel "Roadside Picnic" ???
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bob
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 05:59 PM |
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I thought someone was mailing me the 3 word story  LOL
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JoelP
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 06:07 PM |
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lol, i always assumed they did it to get past spam filters, by throwing in a proper piece of literature. 
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ianr
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 06:10 PM |
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I think the spammers quote lots of text from books so that this drowns the text that spam filters look for.
Does seems strange that no links are there.
I would just delete them, and expect lots more, hope you ISP filters them out.
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need4speed
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 06:52 PM |
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Spammers are doing it to check email address LINK
Dave
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ReMan
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 08:35 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by need4speed
Spammers are doing it to check email address LINK
Dave
Blimey I was right for once
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ned
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 08:43 PM |
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as above the random text is to avoid detection by spam engines/detection systems and they are probing for responses from active email addresses to
harvest for further spamming.
I have been involved with spam issues at work and I'm not allowed to give detail but needless to say we have had several meetings of late as we
have seen a signifcant increase in specifically targeted spam over the last week and a half.
Ned.
ps not intended for home users, but anyone invovled in corporate email systems I'd suggest you checkout http://www.spamhaus.org/ and their
public DNSBLs
beware, I've got yellow skin
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joneh
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 08:58 PM |
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As ned says. It uses un weighted words that pass through detection just so you can get information on how to enlarge your penis or sutain you
erection for longer! I've done mine about 15 times now. Its three foot long.
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RazMan
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 08:59 PM |
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I've been getting these for a few weeks now - same random text. They are a nuisance but I just get in the habit of deleting them when a batch
arrives.
I realise they are trying to get you to reply but I have to wonder if anyone is daft enough to reply - surely it cant be cost effective to do this
type of random spamming.
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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ned
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| posted on 11/7/06 at 09:06 PM |
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it is normally foreign spamming gangs that change email and ip address nearly every time (or with 30 mins) they can find out whether an email address
exists easily enough when contacting microsoft exchange servers once they have a valid smtp handshake/session open, not sure of the other email server
types as I don't have direct experience but guessing its the same as they all use the same smtp protocols for establishing sessions between
source/relay and destination servers. They are onyl trying to get a reaction from a user to see that the account is active and used so they can target
spam more acurately and I'd take a guess that is someone is stupid enough to reply to one of these messages then they are probably going to
reply or fall for whatever spam/scam comes their way next!
Ned.
[Edited on 11/7/06 by ned]
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Jasper
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| posted on 12/7/06 at 10:08 AM |
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That all makes a lot of sense - I just mark all mine as spam with the Cloudmark Spamnet system I use.
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