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Carolynanna Posted - 10/28/2004 : 14:26:00
I got this a few moments ago;

argillaceous debtorreprieve omaha dutydeclarator acquittal inorganicasiatic confectionery tullebusiness sexton gannetalistair paragonite chestnutsurf catatonia individualismmort chairmen trickerycoexist osborne passaicberyllium

Anyone care to hazard a guess as to what it means?

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slaveish Posted - 10/29/2004 : 22:10:21
KoK, I wouldn't reply- then the sender knows they've hit an active email account and they'll send you more.

If it's an email from someone you don't know, delete it or use one of the spam management tools in your email program.
VoVat Posted - 10/29/2004 : 13:45:14
Maybe they're just testing out a new mass-mailing device.



"Signature quotes are so lame." --Nathan
jediroller Posted - 10/29/2004 : 00:49:44
I've been getting blank mails, with no attachments, and weirdly, even the "sender" line is blank. I don't know how they do this, and I certainly haven't got a clue as to their purpose.


Take this rock and shake it 'til it bleeds.
The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/28/2004 : 22:39:42
Sometimes when I get mail I'm not sure of, I will hit reply instead of opening it. Does that help protect me at all? My computer is fine but I have a mac. Aren't most viruses designed to attack Pc's?

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mun chien andalusia Posted - 10/28/2004 : 19:32:49
fuck those. never open stuff you can't understand, that's my philosophy. no french or spanish mails for me. heh.


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KimStanleyRobinson Posted - 10/28/2004 : 14:56:59
got a good alter-ego name from this one.


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Ebb Vicious Posted - 10/28/2004 : 14:51:53
yeah you may very well be infected.

it's possible it's just someone you know though.

once you get infected it will use your contact list and mail history (sent mail and recieved mail) to find more people to send messages to, and it will address those messages from those people.

trendmicro.com has a good online virus/trojan scanner.
floop Posted - 10/28/2004 : 14:45:42
i must be infected then. i get spam all the time where the subject line is someone's name i know. and i'm not just talking John or Jim. like, people with unique names..

also, sometimes i get email from myself. it's my email address. i'm like, "how did they do that?"

unless it is another "self" of mine that i'm not aware of.




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Ebb Vicious Posted - 10/28/2004 : 14:40:26
darwin: either coincidence, or if that's impossible, then someone you know or you yourself are infected.

carolyn: it's likely your mail server (or client) stripped the attachment knowing it was a virus/trojan.
Cheeseman1000 Posted - 10/28/2004 : 14:39:07
You mean passaicberyllium isn't common in spam? Must be the type of sites I go to.


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Carolynanna Posted - 10/28/2004 : 14:38:43
Fantastic.


Actually there was no attachment so...

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Black glasses and feedback took my sense of fun.
darwin Posted - 10/28/2004 : 14:38:33
I got an email with the name of daughter's soccer team in the subject line. How the fuck did they do that? It's not that unusual of name "Shooting Stars" so maybe it's a coincidence, but has anyone else had something like that happen?
Ebb Vicious Posted - 10/28/2004 : 14:36:08

i'm very sorry what i meant to say in that message was:

calculator spitton orangutan chihuahua festoon crimson balogna al-jazeera tiburculosis messopotamia verdant malignant chowder hysterical magnaminous


actually those messages usually have a malicious attachment of some kind, the seemingly random words are chosen from a dictionary database and are meant to fool anti-spam filtering software. some filters that use spam ratings will count "non spam words" (words that are not known to be popular in spam) and use those to reduce the "spam score".

in other words it's meant to get around your filtering software so the attachment can infect your machine.

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