Re: the most bizarre spam message i've received to date...

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On Thursday 26 June 2003 01:01, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> another interesting tack is this (from an actual spam):
>
> ------
>   * Fa<!-- cheesy -->st Pr<!-- lucius -->ior<!-- extricable -->ity
> Ship<!-- awesome -->ping Wor<!-- acetylene -->ldWi<!-- %RANDOM_WORD
> -->de<br> * Scie<!-- chew -->nti<!-- nibs -->st Appr<!-- %RANDOM_WORD
> -->oved <br> ------
(...)
> some spammers' sotware is totally broken and all there are are "<!--
> %RANDOM_WORD -->" with not a real word in sight. oops.

To me this looks different (and even worse):

Obviously that spammer used a special software filling every occurence of 
%RANDOM_WORD% by a random 'good' word from a list of good words.

The only mistake seems to be that the user (== the spammer) was stupid
enough to write %RANDOM_WORD instead of %RANDOM_WORD% at these two 
places.

This means: most likely making such tricky spam messages is extremely
easy for the spammer - ergo we will see many more of them in the future.

:-(
Karl-Heinz

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Karl-Heinz Zimmer, Senior Software Engineer, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB
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