Anyone know where the gibberish comes from and why it's there?

[Gary Allan]

Okay, we all get spam. I must get a Viagra ad everyday. Each and every one of them has something like this in the body.

my Emly, lying wearied out, and wandering betwixt whiles, till
was probably suggested to her by her contemplation of mine.
losses, and am poorer than I used to be. I have told you so.
If I am not mistaken, said Mr. Spenlow, as Miss Murdstone brought
Study, where I saw a light. I opened the door. In company with
trying to be good. First of all, she would bring out the immense
up, and brought his oilskin bag and his stout stick, and laid them
Trot, returned my aunt gravely, I cant say. I have no right to
seen her last; the flashing eyes still brighter, and the scar still
tortures all the time; and thought I really must have laid violent
I dont know that Mr. Micawber attached any meaning to this last
steps and knock, is no matter now. Even when, at last, I had
mention it to mother, nor to any living soul. Im determined to
they were all called in together, couldnt help him. He was past
step, up and down a gravel walk on one side of the lawn. She gave
and found it agreeable to be so - which we dont - I am persuaded
Mr. Micawber considered it necessary to prepare either my aunt or
As I followed the chief waiter with my eyes, I could not help
Traddles, too; we have time enough before us, for the
from place to place, with his one object of recovering his niece
expedient to have a bond ready by him, as from Mr. W., for the
futile by the umbrellas hopping on again, like an immense bird,
The time came in its season, and that was very soon, when I almost

Now, I can sorta figure out that this isn't manually pecked out ..unless this is from some foreign country that has a warped sense of grammar and syntax. Pehaps direct translations from a foreign language

Does this defeat some type of spam filter?

 

[wavinwayne]

Your last sentence nails it.

You will also notice that spammers mis-spell words to get around filters.

 

[Gary Allan]

Okay, I'll go with that, but why gibberish? Legit communications get through spam filters too ..and why would anyone buy anything from an email that has this sorta crap in it anyway

 

[wavinwayne]

I think of it this way:

THe spammers have to come up with something to get through as many spam filters as possible, so they use jibberish.

As far as buying anything from these goofs, 99.9% of people who receive their e-mails delete them & never think twice about them. BUT, if the spammer gets his e-mail to 5 million people, & just .1% of them respond & buy his $29.95 product, then that spammer rakes in $149,750 in sales.

 

[Pablo]

I have not received one SPAM through cablespeed.com.

wiw nailed it.

Gotta go get my French Toast on....I mean battered bread fried...

 

[Benzadmiral]

Someone took random lines from pages of David Copperfield. Mr. Micawber and the others are all from that novel.

 

[sprintman]

Pablo you'll get fat!

 

[Pablo]

Only had two pieces. After a 5 miler this AM.

 

[Matt_S]

A lot of spam filters focus in on words or word combinations common to unsolicited e-mail, each word having a "spam probability" assigned to it. An overall spam probability for the mesage is then calculated. If that probability exceeds a preset limit, the message gets filtered. To get around this, the spammers offset the high-spam-probability words with a bunch of low-probability words. That's what you're seeing.

 

[spinfire]

This is designed foil a technique called bayesian filtering. This filtering technique is based on bayesian statistics and probability principles. Specifically, something called a Naive Bayesian Classifier.

The spammer's method of attack is to include lots of words that aren't spammy. But the attack also has the side effect of making the junk words more "spammy" which poisens the database.