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Thursday, December 22, 2005

A novel way of spamming

In the never-ending war between spammers and spam-filterers, the latest trick seems to be to start messages with a passage of unrelated fiction. This fools the spam filter into allowing it. They then do some HTML trickery to hide this passage and replace it with the hard-sell spam or phishing one when you view it.

The passages they start with, while apperently random, seem to be stitched together from real literary works. Here's an example I extracted from a piece of spam I got earlier today:
Paul could smell frying skin, burning fat. I'm half-unclad!
She put her arms about his neck, bringing the firm of her breast more fully into his hand. Poor things. Suddenly the noise of the riding lawnmower was louder. Then she led them into the kitchen. If your sinuses closed up tight and you couldn't breathe through your mouth. And suddenly she knew the reason for that terrible thundery feeling that had been inside her ever since Saturday Night. Millions might scoff, but only because they failed to realize how pervasive the influence of art - even of such a degenerate sort as popular fiction - could become.

In my opinion, that's a mini masterpiece! It's like reading 10 different novels at once!

I find myself wanting to know what happened to Paul. Who was on the lawnmower? What was the reason for the terrible thundery feeling??

I'm considering accepting the offer for a managerial post at Honda, that was attached below the story. Just to find out what happens next. All I have to do is give them my bank account details...
Mother Damnable  ...so that's how you spell pervasive!

Goggled in after a search on the Pogues!

Hey Becky 

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