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Spam, we get spam...

Today, I saw in my Eudora junk mailbox, an email with the subject line of.

Obtain degrees from Prestigious non-accredited Universities..

I immediately transferred it to the trash, but then I went back and looked at it again.

Prestigious non-accredited Universities

Hmm...non-accredited. Prestigious. Somehow, I don't think these two go together. So I IMd Anne, and then went into the trash and opened up the message.

Lo and behold, the entire subject line was this!

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Irrelevant soak tenney, indeed! Flourish un garish sounds like some German band.

But we're not done yet! At the bottom of the message, past all the info on getting that prestigious non-accredited degree, there was this block of text.

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I say unto you...quoi??

Comments (2)

Alex:

A lot of these messages are just spam tests trying to find words or combinations of words that get past spam filters. Often, by opening them, you'll trigger back some sort of hit to a server or response that tells them it got past the filter.

AS

Oh, I know that...sorry to mislead.

And I always have images turned off, which, AFAIK, is the only way they know if you opened the message, no?

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