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You're Awfully Tenderhearted Over Snakes, Aren't You? Tuesday, September 12, 2006

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Posted 12 September 2006 - 08:08 PM

I got the most amazing spam message today. I have a pretty solid anti-spam filter installed on my computer, however, some of my email addresses get redirected to a gmail address. Gmail has a pretty good spam filter too but every week or so I go through and delete ten or twenty spams that have accumulated. As I was clicking boxes in Gmail I noticed an amazing first line on one of the messages. It said this:

Youre very tenderhearted over snakes,arent you?


"This must not be spam," I thought. "Only someone that truly knows me could classify me in such a way."

So I opened the message and read on:

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Youre very tenderhearted over snakes,arent you?
And on this trek inparticular, Im going to emulate your black men.
Were up against the deepest, hardest game we everstruck. Wide-winged birds or flying foxes passed over hishead with silky swish.
While Sterl was unrolling the tent, Red and Leslie rode in. Despite hispromise not to hit too hard, he feared he had done so. Ive sent Monkton on ahead to let down the bars, replied Drake. Somehow he had come to liken the black to awatchdog. The girl rode byhim as if he had not been there.
If Beryl is like her, wal, its all day withme. But once I get mad, Ill be good-o, as Lesliesays. Somehowthat little incident beside Danns campfire had roused unreasonablejealousy.
Well all be on our way, if we stick tothe big bosss idee, an trek off into thet Never-never.
Beef, alternatedwith game, was the prime factor.
A dark wave of color changed the paleness of her face. The wagons crossed only hub deep at a bar belowcamp.
Yet he wasdisgusted with himself for being wooed so easily from a lamentable loveaffair.
But this heah country is sogrand, I jest dont believe in your Never-never. Sterl was introduced and greeted cordially. Darkness descended and the cook pounded akettle to call all to supper.
Why, the madmanthinks he can have us both!
It was well Sterl had an oilskin cover over his rifle as King went in, upto his neck.
Farther to the right showed the camp of Hathawayand Woolcott.
Thats why you gave yourself away, retorted Sterl. That means youre slated for bed right now. Then she drew back,gasping, as if realizing to what limit her temper had let her.
Wal, interposed Red, we shore need another trail driver.
Members of Slyters groupwere always too hungry to mind the sameness of fare.
Shell trail us, if she wasnt crippled or stolen by blacks.


Wow. From reading that message, two things were very clear. Firstly, the person that wrote this was trying to use that weird new spam technique of copying things directly from random literature (though I'm not sure why that is supposed to be effective in any respect). And secondly, their spacebar was clearly not working properly.

So, clearly, I was fascinated by what piece of strangely written, fairly racist literature this could be. It was as simple as searching for the sentence: "Beef, alternated with game, was the prime factor." That led me to this site: Freeread.com.au. That in turn led me to a text version of the novel Wilderness Trek by Zane Grey, originally published in 1944.

It seems that random sentences from this novel were strung together in an attempt to get me to visit the site Art4loveimages.com/. It's hard to tell though since this is all hidden in the enigmatic image attached to the email, aptly named: laxative.gif.

Here's the image:



It's hard to say how they expected me to visit that site since there's no link anywhere in the body of the email. Also, the image is actually an animated GIF with four frames that are blank and two that look like the image above. Trying to open the image in Photoshop revealed a blank image. I actually had to use ImageReady to remove that single panel above. Why I did that, I'm not exactly sure.

If anyone from Art4loveimages.com/ would care to email me with an explanation I'd be really interested to hear it.

One thing's for sure... Put it on your radar now!!
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Posted 12 September 2006 - 08:43 PM

LOL!
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Posted 12 September 2006 - 08:53 PM

That's awesome Chef! I got one of these like three weeks ago. Actually, my mother got it first and then sent it to me to try and discern. It had a stock in the message that we should buy into too. I'm glad to see that we are not the only ones getting this. I'm also glad to see someone else get this and speak about it too!
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Posted 12 September 2006 - 09:42 PM

Someone managed to get the list-serv for my entire dorm and sends us these things once every couple of days. I never thought to do a search, though - next time I get a seemingly random story, I'm going to have to see if it's something real.

There are no attachments with ours, though. Just the "story," for no purpose whatsoever.
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Posted 12 September 2006 - 09:44 PM

For the missing spacebars I am looking for patterns to see if it is suppose mean something.

To me that sounds too creative for spammers but maybe they could be doing it out of desperation. I got an eight line message in the style I am reading on a Gmail account which I stored called "modern times" but it didn't make much sense to me and no attachments came with it.

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nervous situation modern.
purpose how build sooner.
thee considered sandwich or come disease,
wine telling fascinate conduct out,
being learned comes surely board.
choose surely taught spot how?
within principle sugar profession journey might.
years within pride letters spoken?


Now I wonder if this also came out of a novel.

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 12 September 2006 - 10:05 PM

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Posted 13 September 2006 - 02:31 AM

I've got a pair of those squirrelled away for a rainy day. One was actually trying to promote some website, and was quite long. This one wasn't...

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Rosalind Irwin (RosalindIrwin@1-tel.com)
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Subject: 7X8
Zone to grab everything they can lay their hands on. It's become a whole new
Seagull.
sergeant, you'll make lieutenant yet.
He couldn't be careful enough on that upstroke. Ten times he tried,


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Post icon  Posted 13 September 2006 - 06:24 AM

[puts on nerd glasses] well, actually....

i think randomly grabbing gunk from literature is supposed to foil spamfiltering that would be like, "hmmmm, what are words that don't often appear in spam? They said 'methinks' and 'dwarven' and 'gazeebo'? Then it OBVIOUSLY can't be spam!" Perhaps the random space-bar lackings are so it can't directly match it against story-text? But i'm not quite sure how (spam filters are supposed to keep every piece of literature ever written on hand...) perhaps occasional 'typeos' make it seem more human-generated?

the ones where they don't even convey a message are fun too, as are the images. What throws me into a murderous rage are the one or two i've gotten that PRETEND TO BE ABOUT THE NES;
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subject: Megaman Archives One biggest
Hyrule related The Legend support Squall WebRing Online


however, this subject line: The Tale of Hurtles O. Hoarding is obviously the one that begins this novel (which I began writing and almost immediately abandoned):
"He was a bright, energetic young accounts clerk at the firm of Satchmo, Smithe and Wainwright; had it not been for his enigmatic greed when it came to the collection and retention of wooden track jumping frames, he might have gone far in the world."
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Posted 13 September 2006 - 02:09 PM

Maybe you could have highlighted the words without the spaces. I notice that most of the words without the spaces consist of two words.


Youre very tenderhearted over snakes,arent you?
And on this trek inparticular, Im going to emulate your black men.
Were up against the deepest, hardest game we everstruck. Wide-winged birds or flying foxes passed over hishead with silky swish.
While Sterl was unrolling the tent, Red and Leslie rode in. Despite hispromise not to hit too hard, he feared he had done so. Ive sent Monkton on ahead to let down the bars, replied Drake. Somehow he had come to liken the black to awatchdog. The girl rode byhim as if he had not been there.
If Beryl is like her, wal, its all day withme. But once I get mad, Ill be good-o, as Lesliesays. Somehowthat little incident beside Danns campfire had roused unreasonablejealousy.
Well all be on our way, if we stick tothe big bosss idee, an trek off into thet Never-never.
Beef, alternatedwith game, was the prime factor.
A dark wave of color changed the paleness of her face. The wagons crossed only hub deep at a bar belowcamp.
Yet he wasdisgusted with himself for being wooed so easily from a lamentable loveaffair.
But this heah country is sogrand, I jest dont believe in your Never-never. Sterl was introduced and greeted cordially. Darkness descended and the cook pounded akettle to call all to supper.
Why, the madmanthinks he can have us both!
It was well Sterl had an oilskin cover over his rifle as King went in, upto his neck.
Farther to the right showed the camp of Hathawayand Woolcott.
Thats why you gave yourself away, retorted Sterl. That means youre slated for bed right now. Then she drew back,gasping, as if realizing to what limit her temper had let her.
Wal, interposed Red, we shore need another trail driver.
Members of Slyters groupwere always too hungry to mind the sameness of fare.
Shell trail us, if she wasnt crippled or stolen by blacks.


So I see twenty four, two letter words without spaces, two without space with a comma and seven without apostrophe marks. As well as the missing spaces I see that this person leaves out some of the punctuation marks. But why not some of the capital letters such as Never never and the question mark?

Incase there is a pattern I made up a guess and used some of the miss punctuations in the brackets. This is all I can find for now:

(You’re) Tender Hearted in Particular… Snakes aren’t...
(I’m) Ever Struck… his head… his promise…
(I’ve) a watchdog by him…
(It’s) with me Leslie says somehow that unreasonable jealousy to the (boss’s) alternated with … below camp… was disgusted… love affair… so grand… a kettle…
Madman thinks up to Hathaway and back. (That's) what (your) gasping group, were…

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 13 September 2006 - 02:27 PM

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Post icon  Posted 13 September 2006 - 02:44 PM

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Posted 13 September 2006 - 03:03 PM

As it turns out, I too am awfully tender hearted over snakes.
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Posted 13 September 2006 - 08:59 PM

If a snake can eat me then I refuse to be tender hearted but I could be physically tender to a python.

I made some mistakes earlier by jumbling a few words around.

(You’re) Tender Hearted… Snakes aren’t...
In particular (I’m) Ever Struck… his head… his promise…
(I’ve) a watchdog by him…
(It’s) with me (I’ll,) Leslie says somehow that unreasonable jealousy to the (boss’s) alternated with … below camp… was disgusted… love affair… so grand… a kettle…
Madman thinks up to Hathaway and that(s) back gasping group were…

Can anyone see sense from the words without the space?

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Posted 13 September 2006 - 09:08 PM

I got one once that said, ''where are the books?' he cried with a frightful face.'
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Posted 16 September 2006 - 10:10 AM

QUOTE (Otal Nimrodi @ Sep 13 2006, 04:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
As it turns out, I too am awfully tender hearted over snakes.


I might have opened it too. I dig me some snakes, son.
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Posted 25 September 2006 - 09:14 PM

i've been getting these...

some rubbish about vampire turnip dogs or something...
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Posted 30 September 2006 - 03:15 AM

I get ones that look like they're official emails from banks, but when you open them they're just random novels. I mean, if you're going to go to the trouble of making it look like an official bank, why don't you go all the way?
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