Weird Spam Mail

[Angel Tarragon]

Don't worry just some badly translated alien e-mail that missed Groom Lake

Groom Lake?!

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Groom Lake?!

People call it Area 51 a lot.

 

[ssampier]

This is common tactic. The advertisement is in the JPGs (sometimes also featuring an invisible gif). The nonsense just tricks the spam filter into letting the email through.

As a tech specialist spam is the bane of my existance.

 

[ssampier]

Groom Lake?!

I believe it's the name of a dry lake near the Area 51 area of Nevada.

Check it out with Google Earth:

37.24, -115.81

 

[Merkuri]

For a while I was getting a bunch of spam with lines from the Cryptonomicon, one of my favorite books. I'm assuming they were using it to try to get around spam filters, which would think the text from the book was actual email conversation.

Last night before I left work I was just about to empty my spam box I caught a really disturbing one in the "preview pane" of Outlook. I believe the spam was for some ED drug (like Viagra). It was a fake x-ray of a broken bone in a man's... member. Now THAT is disturbing to get in your work email. I use my work email for nothing that's not work related. One of our partner companies sells our email addys to spam companies. We have no proof, but I got no spam for several months before I put my email into on of those sites.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

This is common tactic. The advertisement is in the JPGs (sometimes also featuring an invisible gif). The nonsense just tricks the spam filter into letting the email through.

As a tech specialist spam is the bane of my existance.

That would make sense. At least I find these spam e-mail amusing for the time being.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Aeson]

It's Spoony. He's got your email address. I kid Spoony.

 

[CarlZog]

It's fragments of text stolen from literature found online. As someone else mentioned, it's used to fool the spam filters.

If you paste some of the fragments with proper nouns into a Google Books search, you can usually find out where it's from.

For example, Olaf, the stuff you quoted is from Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

It's fragments of text stolen from literature found online. As someone else mentioned, it's used to fool the spam filters.

If you paste some of the fragments with proper nouns into a Google Books search, you can usually find out where it's from.

For example, Olaf, the stuff you quoted is from Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series.

Thanks for the explanation Carl. And I thought that the internet was only used for porn and sharing pirated music. Who knew that you could read stuff on it too!

Olaf the Stout

 

[lonesoldier]

I for one welcome our filter-defeating overlords.

Actually, I just took a look at my gmail account's spam folder and saw a lot of that kinda email. Me and my friends are trying to see who can collect the most spam

I'm at 1480.