I got a weird email today.

[arkcom]

subject:
maul riggs primitivism oedipus primitivism

body:
hearken difluoride thyratron? primitivism, paragonite burnout.
vaccinate suggestive decreeing mongolia burnout paulette, stearic
salesperson terrapin salesperson snowflake suggestive.

emit daredevil depreciable

salesperson laurent aile? elicit, paulette captaincy.
riggs riggs terrapin vaccinate bob friedman, occasion
bob elicit friedman fallacious provocation.

thyratron fallacious paragonite

primitivism maul antelope? maul, suggestive antelope.

provocation dishwasher.

If this is spam, why are they spamming it? There are no links or images, they are not selling anything. I am confused

Maybe it's a cipher and I've been recruited to save the world.

 

[apac]

provocation dishwasher, man.

 

[OCGuy]

Well I just got an email saying a late Nigerian uncle has left me 3,000,000,000 USD in a bank account, and all I have to do is give him my social and bank account number and I am RICH BITCH! Im going to tell my boss what a fuckhead hes been all these years!

 

[Q]

Probably sent it to see if you read it (Read receipt). This way they know it's an active email account and now you will get spam from them.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I've gotten e-mails like that. I always assumed the text was from something else designed to show up on as many web searches as possible. No idea why anyone would send it as an e-mail though.

 

[wedi42]

it's a secret coded message, they knew you'd post it here on ATOT
now some russian spy can get his new orders

 

[rubix]

is there a way to stop read receipts?

 

[Auggie]

they're not after read receipts - all they have to do is ping it to every username combination they can come up with. the ones that don't get returned means the username for that domain is valid, and is entered into their spam list.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: Auggie
they're not after read receipts - all they have to do is ping it to every username combination they can come up with. the ones that don't get returned means the username for that domain is valid, and is entered into their spam list.

Except that returns will also have the error message, which they could check for and if it's from a spam engine then they still know it's real.


Boxtrapper for the win.

 

[DomS]

joyous saddlebag

 

[Row1and]

send it to chuck norris... he can decode just about anything.

 

[arkcom]

Originally posted by: Row1and
send it to chuck norris... he can decode just about anything.

I hope Chuck Norris doesn't read ATOT, or you are gonna be so screwed.

 

[geno]

purple monkey dishwasher

 

[mundane]

I was getting a kick out of the recent "CNN Top 10" spam burst, I thought it was just a variation on the "shocking news subject line" crap. Then I found out it was an attempt to fool users into installing an 'upgraded' version of flash - that's damn slick.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Quintox
Probably sent it to see if you read it (Read receipt). This way they know it's an active email account and now you will get spam from them.

This is the best case scenario, probably put forth by Quintox because he feels sorry that you have sealed your mortal fate . . . for YOU have now opened a prime example of the e-ebola virus (see what I did there?)

Within 48 hours, your penis will shrivel and die while your breasts will swell to the size of a D-cup. If you do not decide to kill yourself from this humiliation, you will have to shop for an entirely new wardrobe and negotiate a completely different relationship with your wife.

 

[arkcom]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: Quintox
Probably sent it to see if you read it (Read receipt). This way they know it's an active email account and now you will get spam from them.

This is the best case scenario, probably put forth by Quintox because he feels sorry that you have sealed your mortal fate . . . for YOU have now opened a prime example of the e-ebola virus (see what I did there?)

Within 48 hours, your penis will shrivel and die while your breasts will swell to the size of a D-cup. If you do not decide to kill yourself from this humiliation, you will have to shop for an entirely new wardrobe and negotiate a completely different relationship with your wife.

Will I be ok if I buy the penis enlarger from the other email?

 

[Chronoshock]

Probably meant to foil bayesian filters. Presumably the message will be marked as spam, assigning some probability mass to those words, slightly increasing the chances of false positives (user needs to go through spam folder, chance they'll read other spam messages), and false negatives (chance they'll read it since it's in their inbox). Even if it increases clickthrough by .01%, that could translate into $1000.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: arkcom

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: Quintox
Probably sent it to see if you read it (Read receipt). This way they know it's an active email account and now you will get spam from them.

This is the best case scenario, probably put forth by Quintox because he feels sorry that you have sealed your mortal fate . . . for YOU have now opened a prime example of the e-ebola virus (see what I did there?)

Within 48 hours, your penis will shrivel and die while your breasts will swell to the size of a D-cup. If you do not decide to kill yourself from this humiliation, you will have to shop for an entirely new wardrobe and negotiate a completely different relationship with your wife.

Will I be ok if I buy the penis enlarger from the other email?

Together with the premium version of the "hearken difluoride thyratron", which reduces breast size by somehow frightening your nipples into oozing sub-cutaneous fat, yes.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: Perknose
Together with the premium version of the "hearken difluoride thyratron", which reduces breast size by somehow frightening your nipples into oozing sub-cutaneous fat, yes.

K, this is just too weird even for me. :shocked:

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: Perknose
Together with the premium version of the "hearken difluoride thyratron", which reduces breast size by somehow frightening your nipples into oozing sub-cutaneous fat, yes.

K, this is just too weird even for me. :shocked:

Good. I consider this a side bonus. Bye-bye, now!

Send us a postcard in a year or two, k?

 

[marvdmartian]

It's the death e-mail. 7 days after you read it, you drop dead with no explanation! Hope you didn't have a big date planned for the 15th (or after)!!

 

[Iron Woode]

you must reply to it immediately so you can join the Freedom fighters in defeating the provocation dishwasher!

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Chronoshock
Probably meant to foil bayesian filters. Presumably the message will be marked as spam, assigning some probability mass to those words, slightly increasing the chances of false positives (user needs to go through spam folder, chance they'll read other spam messages), and false negatives (chance they'll read it since it's in their inbox). Even if it increases clickthrough by .01%, that could translate into $1000.

This.

They're trying to make the spam filters less effect.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: arkcom

subject:
maul riggs primitivism oedipus primitivism

body:
hearken difluoride thyratron? primitivism, paragonite burnout.
vaccinate suggestive decreeing mongolia burnout paulette, stearic
salesperson terrapin salesperson snowflake suggestive.

emit daredevil depreciable

salesperson laurent aile? elicit, paulette captaincy.
riggs riggs terrapin vaccinate bob friedman, occasion
bob elicit friedman fallacious provocation.

thyratron fallacious paragonite

primitivism maul antelope? maul, suggestive antelope.

provocation dishwasher.

If this is spam, why are they spamming it? There are no links or images, they are not selling anything. I am confused

Maybe it's a cipher and I've been recruited to save the world.

Then again, maybe it's just garbage and you should delete it.

 

[Atvar]

Umm, seems clear to me. They want you to maul the suggestive antelope. Can't you read?