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11.12.05
The secret message in the spam mail
I got yet another "buy a watch" (read: "chronometer") spam mail today, disguised as a personal mail. But it is definitely weirder than the others, this is what I found/read at the end of the mail:
"harmful Momaya pleaded judgement treat and from the ape's crude description as the grotesque castle parodies upon humanity who inhabit the parcel ruins of Opar. And the girl's fate he people, doubtless, but join do I know them? Are they anything weekend to me?" Im wondering if the text above was once something completely coherent, but then went through an online translation machine? As it stands now, there are promises of a tale from 1001 nights wowen into it...
Comments:
Both Momaya and Opar are mentioned in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan books. Opar being a lost city and Momaya being an African hero this could be a quote from a Burroughs book (at least the first sentence - the second sounds like Yoda talk!).
Maybe adding a quote makes you pay more attention to the spam email? These spam mails are definately annoying in any form they arrive!
I love those word jumbles in spam. My guess is that by putting this extra non-spam text in the sender is trying to fool language-based spam filters into thinking the mail is legit. It doesn't have to be real sentences since spam filters can't actually read - it just has to be non-spam words that look sort of real.
Andreas, that sounds like a likely explanation - didnt know that :) But fun nevertheless, that the characters turn out to be from the Tarzan story as Tommy points out!
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