weird spam messages

[lph]

So I checked out my "probably-spam"-mailbox just now, and there's the usual contingent of replica watches, amazing free casino offers, nude starlets and the ever amusing ways they try to get Viagra mails through the filters - today "big rocket makes women happy" and "stimulate lovetoy growth"... which sounds like something Zen's spaghetti boy has been reading up on

Anyway.

Can someone, anyone, tell me what the point of THIS is?? And I quote:

"Out of Africa, Austrian is Senegal's hope

On french bread sippets. Being roasted and cold samples of
the real lady and real gentleman discoverable with the message
that hori would do as she said, return. If harm should come
to thee, we all should its wings, then swelled its speckled
breast and."

That's the entire e-mail.

I only opened it because I hoped I'd finally got a "Nigeria-mail"

[Mr. Bloom]

What's the point? I don't know...but

It looks to me that it was:
- typed in a native language, and
- run through a google translator to english

I've played around with this and taken something in English, translated it to another language and then translated it back...and alas, I had jibberish like that.

I took the preceeding paragraph, ran it through a translator and brought it back to English and got (better than I expected):

I have played around with this, and take something in English, translated into another language and translated again ... and unfortunately, I had so jibberish.

Poor original grammar and idioms would send the translator for a flip and make it look like nonsense when translated.

[alpinerabbit]

it's random generated text with the purpose of eluding the spam filters. The filters go for short headings, text-free messages etc, probably there's just a link that they want you to click.

amost poetry:

If harm should come
to thee, we all should its wings, then swelled its speckled
breast

[squirrell]

So I checked out my "probably-spam"-mailbox just now, and there's the usual contingent of replica watches, amazing free casino offers, nude starlets and the ever amusing ways they try to get Viagra mails through the filters - today "big rocket makes women happy" and "stimulate lovetoy growth"... which sounds like something Zen's spaghetti boy has been reading up on

Anyway.

Can someone, anyone, tell me what the point of THIS is?? And I quote:

"Out of Africa, Austrian is Senegal's hope

On french bread sippets. Being roasted and cold samples of
the real lady and real gentleman discoverable with the message
that hori would do as she said, return. If harm should come
to thee, we all should its wings, then swelled its speckled
breast and."

That's the entire e-mail.

I only opened it because I hoped I'd finally got a "Nigeria-mail"

Got me! But if you want some "nigerian emails," I'll forward you a couple of the approximately 5 a day I get! Want some "soldier serving in Iraq who has Saddam's gold" emails, too? Or how about the Chinese dissident who has a fortune stashed and needs to get it out? I've got a wide variety of spam based upon the same basic spam.

[OakLeaf]

Yep, you've fulfilled their nefarious purpose by clicking on it - hope your virus protection's up to date! As a Mac user I'm not susceptible to most viruses but I still don't click on them. You never know.

That's the only thing I don't like about Apple Mail - you can't look at the long mail headers without opening the message. I refuse to use Entourage Mail (even though I use it as my PIM).

[lph]

no-no! they're already swiped by the antivirus protection, no links, nothing to click, just plain text :-) I've been assured by my computersavvy dh that plain text can't do anything nasty.

I guess there was a link or something there before the virus protection got to it, then.

[Kalidurga]

it's random generated text with the purpose of eluding the spam filters. The filters go for short headings, text-free messages etc, probably there's just a link that they want you to click.

almost poetry:

If harm should come
to thee, we all should its wings, then swelled its speckled
breast

I love those e-mails, they're so much fun. This is one of the best I've gotten:

Primacy is accorded to synchronic linguistics, and diachronic linguistics is defined as the study of successive synchronic stages. Saussure's clear demarcation, however, is now seen to be idealised. In practice, a purely synchronic linguistics is not possible for any period before the invention of the gramophone.
$1000 in Gambling Chips
The findings of historical linguistics are often used as a basis for hypotheses about the groupings and movements of peoples, particularly in the prehistoric period. In practice, however, it is often unclear how to integrate the linguistic evidence with the archaeological or genetic evidence. For example, there are a large number of theories concerning the homeland and early movements of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, each with their own interpretation of the archaeological record.
Get it Here: [link deleted]
The sociolinguist William Labov famously recorded the change in pronunciation in a relatively short period in the American resort of Martha’s Vineyard and showed how this was the result of social tensions and processes.[1] Even in the relatively short time that broadcast media have been available, we can observe the difference between the ‘marked’ pronunciation of the newsreaders of the 1940s and the 1950s and the more neutral, ‘unmarked’ pronunciation of today. The greater acceptance and fashionability of regional accents in the media may also reflect a more democratic, less formal society.
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Primacy is accorded to synchronic linguistics, indeed

[sfa]

I used to get emails like that (with links to online casinos and Canadian prescriptions and such) and I'd read them with great joy every day. I was *sure* there was some kind of message in them, if only I could find out what it was!

But my spam filter is better now and I don't get them anymore. Sigh.

Sarah