Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam

Not too many years ago nearly ninety percent of the content on the World Wide Web was in English. No more. Increasingly, I come across blogs and websites in Spanish, German, Farsi, and Chinese, to name just a few.

This week I received this spam email whose sender's name was in Japanese. The links in the email go to a site in Japanese. But what is going on with the rest of the text in the body of the email? This is not even a real language, right?

Re: 携帯で簡単おこづかい
 

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http://74-75.info/mobafpc/?rf=bkc

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™ƒ‰∞≠¢¨≠Å∞‘∞W≠ÉÀ≠ñ≠Å≠é…Ô

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‘gŒÑ∞r∞W∞l∞X≠Ì„Á‚¥≠Å≠·™B

http://74-75.info/mobafpc/?rf=bkc

Perhaps this is the Asian equivalent to the word salad that appears in so many English language bulk emails.

"semaphore nuclei bazaar paraphernalia glow beg ambition embassy optometry thump feedback fill scrotum mutter alcove inadequacy vise chalkboard bestseller angle concertina what'd stablemen drier erosion garner monkish sandblast tenneco vignette embryo detente filler grover cute e'er ligget polkadot toad buzz pallid confectionery scowl doorbell blumenthal somerville harrisburg it glisten methylene upsetting botanist sedimentation depict garrison filled bema"

The tactic here is to include words that normally do not appear in spam messages in order to get a message classified as not being spam.

 

Comments

[LiLa]

It's waaay to early for my pea brain to comprehend your blog. But I think I'll have a spam burger for lunch.

[Raul]

I still think its funny how people get paid for sending Spam emails out...

BTW, I tried Spam, the food for the first time two weeks ago...probably the worst smelling and tasting food ever

[bruin]

"I'll have the spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans and spam."

[kenrick]

while some of it gobbley gook, alot of those special characters have to do with the browser/email client not getting the right character set. alot of email clients are set to handle the windows charset, iso-8859-1 or 1251 (forget off hand) when they would be better off handling things in utf-8.

sorry thats probably more then you care for, i can hear the gong right now.

[Melika]

bean... that was the most disappointing blog entry i have read so far.
you really didn't want to write anything today did you

[Brad]

Thanks for that info, Bean. I have always wondered what all those nonsense words are in so many emails. Now I do. Or should I say, "Mho prefict nadoodt."

[Vic Rattler]

I saw "Feedback Fill Scrotum" on the side stage at Coachella, great band.

[Julius Marx]

I've been noticing the Spam I get getting more weird and aggressive.

I get a lot of them at my gmail account with the subject line "Boy, Julius you sure look stupid!" or "I found a really stupid picture of you" and even "You sure have a stupid looking face!"
So wait, now my spam insults me?

[Dave W]

Yes the above comments are correct. Worse post yet and your computer does not have the font to display the text. I am an email administer and responsible for blocking spam and this is very common. I can send you more in other languages if you like.

Cheers,

[Marge]

I'm just glad that tomorrow is Tater Tot day!

[Steve]

Re: Kenrick - there are I0 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who get laid.

[Tina C]

I think they need to be encoded first. View> Character Encoding> select Japanese.

P.S Jelly Fish, 95% is water.

[kenrick]

@steve - good thing I don't understand binary or I would not have enjoyed your mom as much! :P

[Al]

Hey Bean those are most likely the equivalent character values for Japanese characters your computer most likely doesn't support that. Thats why you are seeing all the weird symbols instead of Japanese characters.

[Timmay!!!]

"feedback filled scrotum" WAS awesome! but their opening act "Scrotum Mutter" was much more the style I was looking for...