Fantastic Spam - 3 comments
Buried in the text section of a HTML spam email I uncovered a remarkable automatically-generated message, designed to fool dumb email clients. Well it worked, as Gmail (sorry, Google Mail) allowed it through.
It's too long to include in its entirety, but here's a teaser, and a link to the full thing - don't worry, I created a new page and put the text in, so its spam days are over.
Another wrinkled pickup truck negotiates a prenuptial agreement with a food stamp over another sandwich. An optimal pork chop, a precise bullfrog, and the hole puncher for a cashier are what made America great! Any particle accelerator can find lice on a non-chalantly raspy cyprus mulch, but it takes a real blood clot to give lectures on morality to an oil filter living with a razor blade...Vic Reeves meets Mark E. Smith, and it's occasionally hilarious. I haven't tried reading the whole thing - psychologically that might be inadvisable, which is perhaps also why I've never dared listen to all 140 minutes of this all in one sitting.
When you see a skinny carpet tack, it means that some cosmopolitan light bulb ceases to exist... A turkey takes a coffee break, and the sheriff hides; however, a power drill related to a chain saw eats the submarine. A minivan learns a hard lesson from the orbiting ball bearing...
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3 comments so far...
Now that is an impressively large amount of text.
It is a new trick, put in a chunk of text (normally hijacked from a legitimate site, in this case it appears here but I seem to get a lot from Mugglenet and other Harry Potter fan sites...) and the spam filters find it harder to register it as spam. They'll get used to it.
Annoying, but meh. I'm on 200+ spam per day these days...
My Microsoft Entourage correctly identifies spam about 99% of the time, so it doesn't bother me much, but Gmail's (sadly) only suitable as a spam-trap. It was only by chance that I happened to pick this one out.
It's not that difficult to automatically generate a mass of plausible (albeit surreal) text - it even prompted me to take another look at some of my post-grad Prolog - but it's certainly a step up from the usual spam fare. It's quite welcome in some ways...
Oh God, it's funny ... I needed that.
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