I've opened about 3 spam mails this week, (the rest I deleted before opening), and they all had some crazy stuff in the bottom of the letter. The mail may be one line about viagra, and then half a page or more of:


(just grabbed some at random)

befkpxz gqgopw yckjfcwdd owmrqmukk zmxjq, dxloizbzv pqynvfcd wbucuhvno gxpaffhzo fusrgqlc <br>
qkqhq, fzapsihwt fjnzyhrjx uxveh ybrdqgtau qgkfia wizexmi encbzfxd vnidbunb- fcrozyxeb <br>
ceyqrq vsfqwuwc igckrkz usmnnistg uordmpeh quzfw bsolnysno <br>
uarwnqq rfwwe ycsul qoylx lseeivk utuhds dxbsm uszjmkedi <br>
cmakoo ificcicn gyajfdyzj


I know I'm opening html mail in a non html mail reader, but why do they include all garbage in their html?

Can confuse some spam filters.

Cas :)

That's kind of what I figured. I wonder exactly how it works. It would seem like the filter would still weed out the vI@-Gr@ emails regardless of all the other garbage. Mabey it thinks that if you're that bad a speller, then mabey Vee-AG-r@h is your legitmate way of spelling something else.

I find spam emails absolutely amusing for this and other reasons. The entirety of the email is so littered with anti-filtering measures that they're basically unreadable at best and it makes me really wonder who bothers to try to read them at all, and secondly, why they would ever ever EVER dare click on a link in an email that reads like a cracked out ransom note.

The obvious answer would be that "no one does" -- but I've heard far too much proof to the contrary. Spamming is a business and it does make money for a lot of people, and the fact that it does boggles my mind. :)

I remember when I used to ENJOY checking my e-mail. Now I dread it. It's partially my fault, I guess, I was never that worried about protecting my e-mail address, and now I'm on dozens of lists. Every day I get fifteen or sixteen new e-mails, ranging from penis enlargement to beastiality to cleverly worded greetings from people named Ashley and Shartha. (Many of these have attachments.) Grrrrrrr.

Heh, I actually got surprised when I saw stuff like that in one email I got. Nothing surprising in the text itself - but the fact that there was nothing else on the email. Now - why on earth could somebody possibly want to send emails like that? =)