What the hell?

[Newc]

So I get this in an email:

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Good day to you,

(website address deleted - screw 'em)

Some store clerks like working in London. cyan plum

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Good day to you,



Delivered right to your door.

No need to leave the house.

DHL Package tracking.

Prompt, courteous 24 hour customer service.



(website deleted - screw 'em)



Regards,

Charmaine McCarthy





blue pair brown pair

Do you hate shaving badly?. Did Debbie love jumping in front of the restaurant?.

That farmer is not missing reading.. 6.



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Is this like some sort of Secret Code that Windows deciphers as "let my computer bend your computer over and poke it in the cornhole"?
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[charvelguy]

Re: What the hell?

you might want to run a virus scan and see it is contagious, and I ain't talkin Y & T either.

[npacheco]

Re: What the hell?

It is probably just SPAM. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] Run virus scan and spyware scan to be on the safe side though. The gibberish in the text of the e-mail and at the end is just to fool SPAM filters into thinking it is a legitimate e-mail. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

[toejam]

Re: What the hell?

Why the hell do you open email when you don't know who it's from in the first place?!? [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img]

[IrfaanSE801]

Re: What the hell?

I get 5 of those e-mails a day, just stupid jibberish. Just changed my e-mail address and formatted my hard drive yesterday because of all the spyware and junk e-mails

[Soap]

Re: What the hell?

Always delete any and all e-mail thats NOT from a famliar source. Its usually an accident/problem waiting to happen.
I get spam among other stupid mail and it never gets opened if I don't recognize the source sending it.
I've got 2-3 e-mail addresses, one is strictly reserved for important matters only. The others, I use for whatever and whenever, they don't get checked on a regular basis.

[SeventhSon]

Re: What the hell?

The reason why there's so much gibberish in spam these days is because of the new beyesian filter technology that was invented to detect spam by looking at the words in your email and "learning" to detect it when you said this email is good and this email is spam. All these anti-spam folks invested millions in this technology and it worked wonderfully until the spammers caught on and started putting random words at the end of their emails.

It's a fukkin arms race! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Newc]

Re: What the hell?

I didn't open it - I'm smarter than that [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I got that from viewing the Source in the Properties menu.

[Soap]

Re: What the hell?

Excellent...way to go.

[toejam]

Re: What the hell?

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I didn't open it - I'm smarter than that [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I got that from viewing the Source in the Properties menu.

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Allrighty then! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Razor]

Re: What the hell?

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you might want to run a virus scan and see it is contagious, and I ain't talkin Y & T either.

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charvelguy...that's one of my favorite 80's albums!

Spam e-mail, phone calls, faxes and such drive me up the wall. I put myself on the "Do Not Call" list, and it hasn't seemed to curb the phone soliciters much at all.

I want to know how much money these people make off of scams. Especially the assholes who do the "someone with the same last name as you has unclaimed millions of dollars lying in a bank in French Madagascar, and all we need from you is your bank account number" so we can clean you out too e-mails.