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How are messages like this one profitable?



Links to: http://sedud.com/

Idiotic. Boggles the mind that anyone would ever knowingly click through these links.

SiL

Uh... what?



Attachment "jenna.zip" detected by Macaffee as "Generic Malware.a!zip" (wow, could you be more vague?)

Idiots, all of them.

SiL

Assuming that was translated, the misspellings make it more incomprehensible. That's lame.

I've often asked the same question.

Hans

simply idiotic:

subject: If you were born in Los Angles, you better have a huge tool.
body


Goes to maxman:
ciyohibug.cn

Pill spammer, pretty much nonsense, what a pathetic attempt at spamming.


SUBJECT: Lee P. Brewer


BODY

That's actually only "nonsense" if your mail client will inhibit html output, which it appears yours does.

I received the same one to one of my accounts. Via the html output, that message looks like this:



Note that they did misspell "girl".

I don't know how many recipients of email ever turn off html view, but I doubt it's a large enough number for this to be unsuccessful.

SiL

Hi, this is my first post.

I received a couple of these a little while ago, but they are even stranger in that they contain no links, no attachments, just one sentence of nonsense. I see no possible purpose for them at all.





Thats all they say.
Can anyone make sense of this, or work out what they could possibly be hoping to achieve?

Probably test runs to try to evade spam filters. Usually that is what I think of seemingly nonsense spam, though don't you think most spam no matter what it is, is pure nonsense?

What is hard for me to understand is how this could poison spam filters if the volume of it isn't a significant percentage of spam. To keep things from getting too slow, spam filters tend to be pretty primitive, looking at single words or short strings and calculating a probability of an email with all those words being valid or spam. One occurrence of vi@gra will have a high spam rating, since it would almost never occur in good email. But you could get a lot of spam with a line in the body, "Men the larger wish it were so" before that would raise the likelihood of spamminess, since the filter is probably looking at the single words "men," "larger," and "wish," which are more common in spam, especially when all three are present in the same email, but which certainly occur in valid emails, too.

Sending out spam with innocuous and otherwise uncommon words would tend to lead to good emails being listed as spam. But with the high volume of spam being analyzed, sending spam with innocent words would likely have little effect on a spam filter's ability to recognize true positive spam.

There is always the possibility it is used for list washing -- given the number of English words, a nonsense sentence could uniquely identify an email address if someone reported the spam (or posted it on the internet).

A stupid spammer can't get much worse than this utter nonsense:

The sender IP from India 120.61.14.12 is majorly blacklisted, no surprise.



Body:

There was no HTML version?

That's usually a text email client interpreting the html, including the obfuscation text.

It's still stupid. That crap just gets instantly flagged by filters.

SiL

good question, SiL. That was the entire body, no HTML email best I could tell (no links, etc). Really lame attempt.