I get messages like that all the time...and oddly on the bottom of the email there is always some philosophical quote or else some text that looks like it's been taken from a romance novel. It's very odd.
I hate AOL but I laugh every time I see that commercial with the guy pretending to be a spam email.
Spam
A guy I work with got this email today (spam) Thought I'd share it with you. Replaced important bits with XXXX
Hello XXXX,
We revmiewed our file and based on your properity in XXXXXX - Dallas, TX, we were able to get 2.8 % r a te d for your r e finajnce.
I have 3 low deals for you so if you are interersted go here:
http:/ /www.whateverthe pieceofshitwebsitesnameis....
Have a good week
Diggs
Manager
What a piece of art! I wonder how many replies Diggs, Manager (obviously not of the English language) gets.
Gilae
20 years ago
Anulien
20 years ago
The mispellings are used to bypass baysean filters that pickup common spam words together in an email like
reviewed
rated
finance
property
interested
Which together might raise the probability of spam to a level high enough to block. The quote inclusion is a trick as well to try and throw the filter off. Enough random stupidness and big words and the filters will pass them through, better algorithms catch it sooner than others.
reviewed
rated
finance
property
interested
Which together might raise the probability of spam to a level high enough to block. The quote inclusion is a trick as well to try and throw the filter off. Enough random stupidness and big words and the filters will pass them through, better algorithms catch it sooner than others.
Jinheim
20 years ago
I giggle every time some misspells misspell.