Re: [vps-mail] spam under the radar #2 - incoherent ramblings

[Judson Vaughn <jud@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The incoherent ramblings are a device to throw off your spam filter, like
chaff released from a jet fighter to fool a heat-seeking missle. The words
are numerous, innocuous, and unrelated to intentionally make the message NOT
look like spam. 

Since your filter is grading the message on the percentage of words in the
message that are spammish, such as "free" and "!!!", these words balance the
message so that it gets a lower grade and penetrates your filter.

My theory is that this is effective but not a large problem in that the
idiot mentality of a spammer will force him or her to use the cliche
construction of words and punctuation that can be caught in modern filters.
Even when they use the above technique, it is mixed with hard spam language
that can be filtered.

Am I too optimistic?
 
Jud. 



 on 6/19/04 8:16 AM, Ed Woods at ewoods@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Example #2: Looking at the follow email it is clearly spam.  It came in
> to my email under my spam filtering radar.  Here is what puzzles me -
> why does the email contain incoherent ramblings at the end.  Does anyone
> know what is happening?
> 
> Thanks
> Ed
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> $1,000 To $3500 Each day
> Just Returning Phone Calls
> No Selling-No-Explaining!
> 
> 
> 1-618-355-19708 to be taken off toby4444@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 52 merchants rd knoxville,tn 37822
> 
> His hairy ipaq walks.
> A odd shaped kitchen got an idea.
> Mine small book is     thinking.
> Any golden white red wine sleeps.
> Their well-crafted eraser snores.
> Whose well-crafted mp3 player stares while a white caw sleeps.
> Their stupid green red table is thinking while a stupid cat spit.
> A given soft printer got an idea.
> A given noisy carpet lies or maybe a noisy ram fidgeting.
> Our children expensive sony stares.
> Her white laptop looks around.
> Whose white purple sofa calculates.
> Our smart laptop smiles.
> Our odd shaped  soft odd    shaped paper snores the time that our children
> golden cat smiles.
> His bluish kitchen show its value.
> Her tall bottle makes sound or maybe any given white forg is thinking while
> our noisy paper lies the time that a given smart white     gun adheres.
> Our white round little purple sofa walks and a green little spoon is on fire.
> A golden bed snores.
> Any given soft boots is thinking.
> His brothers round glove calculates.
> A given tall go!
> lden printer stinks.
> Whose red dog prepare for fight.
> Her round cat snores.
> Whose    white bluish omprella run and their round-shaped omprella sleeps.
> The tall well-crafted stupid slopy round beautiful book falls and perhaps a
> given little baby looks around.
> Her daughters silver omprella calms-down.
> Any given red ipaq looks around however, their golden picture smells.
> A small dog run.
> A given tall hairy door smiles.
> Whose tall bicycle walks.
> Her noisy baby prepare for fight.
> Our hairy tall golden white bicycle stares.
> A bluish glove arrives and perhaps her daughters red ram snores however, the
> odd shaped beautiful paper fidgeting.
> Any beautiful smart paper smiles.
> A hairy purple paper stares as soon as the small white shining binocyles lies
> as soon as mine white noisy tall purple shining smart caw prepare for fight.
> Her daughters fancy cat arrives or maybe his brothers stupid mouse adheres.
> 
> 
> 
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