Avery strange storey.
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From: Walton on the Naze Essex.
Avery strange story.
following some spam advertising anything from Rolex replicas to Financial advice, i notice what seems to be a strange storey at the bottom.
in is in tiny font and is nonsense...a bit like a typing tutor might push out randomly.
i you feel it would be safe, i'll copy some to this forum. LR
in is in tiny font and is nonsense...a bit like a typing tutor might push out randomly.
i you feel it would be safe, i'll copy some to this forum. LR
Last edited by Loose rivets; 3rd June 2005 at 03:10.
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From: Asia
Most probably it is random letters/ words to try to fool spam filter.
A lot of spam filter works by statistical analysis of the content. Roughly, they computed the 'probability' of every word to be spam and if the total for the message is higher than the limit, it is considered spam.
A message containing a word like 'sex' specially in accordance with 'free', 'big',.. has a great probability to be spam.
But a message of ten pages having only one occurence of the word 'sex' and associated with words like 'species', 'monkey' is probably genuine.
So they add words / letters, to try to lower the statistical analysis of the rest of the message, but as it is not part of the message they want you to read, they put it in very tiny fonts or try to put in the same color as the background, if it is html.
A lot of spam filter works by statistical analysis of the content. Roughly, they computed the 'probability' of every word to be spam and if the total for the message is higher than the limit, it is considered spam.
A message containing a word like 'sex' specially in accordance with 'free', 'big',.. has a great probability to be spam.
But a message of ten pages having only one occurence of the word 'sex' and associated with words like 'species', 'monkey' is probably genuine.
So they add words / letters, to try to lower the statistical analysis of the rest of the message, but as it is not part of the message they want you to read, they put it in very tiny fonts or try to put in the same color as the background, if it is html.
