Re: Water tight opt-in (yet another FUSSP)

On 12/29/2013 12:56 PM, Gordon Peterson wrote:

> Speaking about probably-malicious spam, does anybody here know WTF is
> the deal with all the wildly divergent (but similar-looking, often) spam
> e-mails with links to unknown/suspicious websites, where the link URL
> contains a lot of long numbers, garbled vaguely-relevant word fragments,
> and incoherent quasi-random punctuation?   I've gotten a lot of them
> about wood project plans, political lures, and all other sorts of
> stuff.  Anybody know what the deal is with those?

The wood project plans thing, at least, is Snowshoe spam.  Dodgy
products, spewed from many places, but not botted.  Haven't looked deep
enough into it to see if there's any outright scamming going on (eg: $1
product you buy, with hidden credit charges - see the dark lord link below).

The gibberish and such is to defeat checksumming and other bulk email
detection.  Even in the links it can be used for that purpose in
addition to such things as providing keys as to _who_ accessed the link etc

The Stansberry stuff is financial scams.  Etc.

This is worthy of note on some of the snowshoe stuff:

> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/the-dark-lord-of-the-internet/355726/



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