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[I] Spam museum exhibit [message #289276] Mo, 19 Juni 2006 06:21
Flesh-eating Dragon  
Spam I've received in the last day includes mail purporting to be from:

* Terry Ritchie
* Bessy Pritchard
* Rachael Pritchett

Terry R. wants to tell me about trading sub-penny stocks, Rachael
wants to offer me quality meds at affordable price, and I cannot
fathom what Bessy wants.

However, I have an intuitive sense (call it a psychic premonition if
you will) that this bunch couldn't write a decent novel between them.

(I've never had spam before that appears to imitate the name of the
newsgroup they were almost certainly harvested from, and then I get
three all at once. I don't believe it's a coincidence - looks like a
new development in spamland.)

Adrian.
Re: [I] Spam museum exhibit [message #289337 ] Mo, 19 Juni 2006 15:54
mcv  
8'FED <dragon [at] netyp.com.au> wrote:
> Spam I've received in the last day includes mail purporting to be from:
>
> * Terry Ritchie
> * Bessy Pritchard
> * Rachael Pritchett
>
> (I've never had spam before that appears to imitate the name of the
> newsgroup they were almost certainly harvested from, and then I get
> three all at once. I don't believe it's a coincidence - looks like a
> new development in spamland.)

I recently got a spam with as sucject "version SVN forms". The company
I work for recently switched to SVN for version control, and for my
current project, I'm building a really complex form (several versions
of which have now been checked into SVN). The relevancy of that sucject
was scary, but the message was empty[1].


mcv.

[1] As usual. Lately all spam has no message body at all, just some
attachment (an image I think?) that I never look at.
Re: [I] Spam museum exhibit [message #289391 ] Mo, 19 Juni 2006 19:36
Jeff C  
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:54:14 +0000, mcv wrote:

> [1] As usual. Lately all spam has no message body at all, just some
> attachment (an image I think?) that I never look at.

The images are the spammers' latest attempt to bypass filters. There's no
text to compare to the samples.
Re: [I] Spam museum exhibit [message #289392 ] Mo, 19 Juni 2006 19:40
Brenda  
Jessie C said:

> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:54:14 +0000, mcv wrote:
>
>> [1] As usual. Lately all spam has no message body at all, just some
>> attachment (an image I think?) that I never look at.
>
> The images are the spammers' latest attempt to bypass filters. There's no
> text to compare to the samples.

Fortunately, there are always headers.

--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
Re: [I] Spam museum exhibit [message #289454 ] Di, 20 Juni 2006 00:46
Steve Rogers  
"Jessie C" <munged [at] nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.06.19.17.36.17.160758 [at] nospam.invalid...
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:54:14 +0000, mcv wrote:
>
>> [1] As usual. Lately all spam has no message body at all, just some
>> attachment (an image I think?) that I never look at.
>
> The images are the spammers' latest attempt to bypass filters. There's
> no
> text to compare to the samples.

I wouldn't say latest, more prolific maybe, but not latest. I've been
filtering out those type for years by looking at the headers.

Steve
Re: [I] Spam museum exhibit [message #289459 ] Di, 20 Juni 2006 01:09
Jay Walker  
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:36:17 -0700, Jessie C <munged [at] nospam.invalid>
wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:54:14 +0000, mcv wrote:
>
>> [1] As usual. Lately all spam has no message body at all, just some
>> attachment (an image I think?) that I never look at.
>
>The images are the spammers' latest attempt to bypass filters. There's no
>text to compare to the samples.

Surely a no-text email would rate as highly suspicious in most spam
filters anyway?
Re: [I] Spam museum exhibit [message #289461 ] Di, 20 Juni 2006 01:18
alec  
In article <vkbe92dkn78ssggmfgvjkuh3ffc4orn9h9 [at] 4ax.com>, SteveD <>
says...
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:36:17 -0700, Jessie C <munged [at] nospam.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:54:14 +0000, mcv wrote:
> >
> >> [1] As usual. Lately all spam has no message body at all, just some
> >> attachment (an image I think?) that I never look at.
> >
> >The images are the spammers' latest attempt to bypass filters. There's no
> >text to compare to the samples.
>
> Surely a no-text email would rate as highly suspicious in most spam
> filters anyway?

Not really. I've had people send me emails with .doc files with all the
information in the Subject ("Draft minutes of Staffing Meeting" or
"Photo you asked for"). I wouldn't dream of opening these unless I knew
the sender *and* was expecting a document of the sort thy are sending,
but I wouldn't want them filtered.
Re: [I] Spam museum exhibit [message #289463 ] Di, 20 Juni 2006 01:25
Jay Walker  
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:09 +0100, Alec Cawley <alec [at] spamspam.co.uk>
wrote:

>In article <vkbe92dkn78ssggmfgvjkuh3ffc4orn9h9 [at] 4ax.com>, SteveD <>
>says...
>> Surely a no-text email would rate as highly suspicious in most spam
>> filters anyway?
>
>Not really. I've had people send me emails with .doc files with all the
>information in the Subject ("Draft minutes of Staffing Meeting" or
>"Photo you asked for"). I wouldn't dream of opening these unless I knew
>the sender *and* was expecting a document of the sort thy are sending,
>but I wouldn't want them filtered.

Ouch. If I ever got sent any messages like that, they'd be straight into
the bit bucket before I'd finished reading the subject. Different
expectations, I guess.


-SteveD
Re: [I] Spam museum exhibit [message #289478 ] Di, 20 Juni 2006 02:22
Lesley Weston  
in article e758mq$1hu8$1 [at] mud.stack.nl, 8'FED at dragon [at] netyp.com.au wrote on
18/06/2006 9:21 PM:

> Spam I've received in the last day includes mail purporting to be from:
>
> * Terry Ritchie
> * Bessy Pritchard
> * Rachael Pritchett
>
> Terry R. wants to tell me about trading sub-penny stocks, Rachael
> wants to offer me quality meds at affordable price, and I cannot
> fathom what Bessy wants.
>
> However, I have an intuitive sense (call it a psychic premonition if
> you will) that this bunch couldn't write a decent novel between them.
>
> (I've never had spam before that appears to imitate the name of the
> newsgroup they were almost certainly harvested from, and then I get
> three all at once. I don't believe it's a coincidence - looks like a
> new development in spamland.)

It's clever. Hope it doesn't last.

--
Lesley Weston.

Brightly_coloured_blob is real, but I don't often check even the few bits
that get through Yahoo's filters. To reach me, use leswes att shaw dott ca,
changing spelling and spacing as required.
Re: Spam museum exhibit [message #289639 ] Mi, 21 Juni 2006 02:18
rja.carnegie  
Lesley Weston wrote:
> in article e758mq$1hu8$1 [at] mud.stack.nl, 8'FED at dragon [at] netyp.com.au wrote on
> 18/06/2006 9:21 PM:
>
> > Spam I've received in the last day includes mail purporting to be from:
> >
> > (I've never had spam before that appears to imitate the name of the
> > newsgroup they were almost certainly harvested from, and then I get
> > three all at once. I don't believe it's a coincidence - looks like a
> > new development in spamland.)
>
> It's clever. Hope it doesn't last.

I dunno, if they get /really/ good at imitating AFPers then we can
relax from our keyboard hunch and just watch our electronic
doppelgangers discuss Pterry's works and fruit preserves and spiders
and try to sell each other questionable pharmaceutical or financial
products, personally I can't wait, in fact why don't you send just $10
to each member of AFP, then post this message into all the other
newsgroups you read :-)
Re: Spam museum exhibit [message #289672 ] Mi, 21 Juni 2006 09:58
rja.carnegie  
mcv wrote:
> I recently got a spam with as sucject "version SVN forms". The company
> I work for recently switched to SVN for version control, and for my
> current project, I'm building a really complex form (several versions
> of which have now been checked into SVN). The relevancy of that sucject
> was scary, but the message was empty. [...] As usual. Lately all spam
> has no message body at all, just some attachment (an image I think?)
> that I never look at.

I still get the other sort, although it usually isn't worth a look.
The image is likely to be a GIF picture of a pharmacy ad, which you
really shouldn't follow up on.

And I've noticed a surprising number claiming to be stock tips for
"Hollywood Interactive" -do you get (and ignore) runs like this for the
same stock all the time and I only just noticed, are they doing
something special to get through the workplace spam filter, maybe it's
a virus that won't die...

They do say that a crime which involves sending an explanation of what
you're doing to millions of people is not a good first step...
Re: Spam museum exhibit [message #289704 ] Mi, 21 Juni 2006 15:41
alec  
In article <1150876680.084733.91790 [at] r2g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
rja.carnegie [at] excite.com says...

> And I've noticed a surprising number claiming to be stock tips for
> "Hollywood Interactive" -do you get (and ignore) runs like this for the
> same stock all the time and I only just noticed, are they doing
> something special to get through the workplace spam filter, maybe it's
> a virus that won't die...

I get burst of these quite often - most often at the weekend. Leaving
aside the fact that anybody giving away real tips is mind bogglingly
improbable, the fact that I get a dozen differently worded "tips" for th
same stock makes it even more blatant.


> They do say that a crime which involves sending an explanation of what
> you're doing to millions of people is not a good first step...

But ther is a considerable difficulty in connecting the person who oh-
so-innocently bought into a stock six weeks ago with the annonymous
professional spammer in China who actually produced the spam. Of course
the authotities will suspect - but they require morte evidence than "you
made a profit" to lock people up - or there would be a lot of brolers in
jail.
Re: Spam museum exhibit [message #289750 ] Mi, 21 Juni 2006 22:45
Lesley Weston  
in article 1150849136.597558.124140 [at] m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com, Robert
Carnegie at rja.carnegie [at] excite.com wrote on 20/06/2006 5:18 PM:

>
> Lesley Weston wrote:
>> in article e758mq$1hu8$1 [at] mud.stack.nl, 8'FED at dragon [at] netyp.com.au wrote on
>> 18/06/2006 9:21 PM:
>>
>>> Spam I've received in the last day includes mail purporting to be from:
>>>
>>> (I've never had spam before that appears to imitate the name of the
>>> newsgroup they were almost certainly harvested from, and then I get
>>> three all at once. I don't believe it's a coincidence - looks like a
>>> new development in spamland.)
>>
>> It's clever. Hope it doesn't last.
>
> I dunno, if they get /really/ good at imitating AFPers then we can
> relax from our keyboard hunch and just watch our electronic
> doppelgangers discuss Pterry's works and fruit preserves and spiders
> and try to sell each other questionable pharmaceutical or financial
> products, personally I can't wait, in fact why don't you send just $10
> to each member of AFP, then post this message into all the other
> newsgroups you read :-)
>
OK, here's a photograph of a $10 bill for each of you, but I don't read any
other newsgroups except afp.

--
Lesley Weston.

Brightly_coloured_blob is real, but I don't often check even the few bits
that get through Yahoo's filters. To reach me, use leswes att shaw dott ca,
changing spelling and spacing as required.
Re: Spam museum exhibit [message #289773 ] Do, 22 Juni 2006 01:32
rja.carnegie  
Lesley Weston wrote:
> in article 1150849136.597558.124140 [at] m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com, Robert
> Carnegie at rja.carnegie [at] excite.com wrote on 20/06/2006 5:18 PM:
>
in fact why don't you send just $10
> > to each member of AFP, then post this message into all the other
> > newsgroups you read :-)
> >
> OK, here's a photograph of a $10 bill for each of you, but I don't read any
> other newsgroups except afp.

Don't worry, there's tens of thousands. Say hello to
microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming for me :-)

However, I am afraid that the photograph of my $10 bill must have
slipped out of the envelope and been returned to you by Google Groups.
For your convenience, allow me to offer this ASCII Art version of a
Chip & Pin terminal.

| |
|-------|
| o o o |
| o o o |
| o o o |
| o o o |
+-------+
Re: Spam museum exhibit [message #289859 ] Do, 22 Juni 2006 17:28
Vincent Oberheim  
>>
> OK, here's a photograph of a $10 bill for each of you, but I don't read
> any
> other newsgroups except afp.
>
> --
> Lesley Weston.
>
I 'm sorry, do you have change for an sketch of an oil painting of me
holding a £50 note?

Vincent
____________________________________
Eggs is eggs. An oeuf is an oeuf. An ei for an ei.
Re: new [C] Usenet money was Spam museum exhibit [message #290132 ] Sa, 24 Juni 2006 00:13
raltbos  
"Vincent Oberheim" <vincentoberheim [at] ntlworld.com> wrote:

[ Please don't over-snip attributions. ]

> > OK, here's a photograph of a $10 bill for each of you, but I don't read
> > any other newsgroups except afp.

> I 'm sorry, do you have change for an sketch of an oil painting of me
> holding a £50 note?

I can do you a pen-and-ink drawing of a €40 note, would that do?

Richard
Re: [I] Spam museum exhibit [message #291192 ] Di, 27 Juni 2006 10:31
Flesh-eating Dragon  
mcv wrote:

> I recently got a spam with as sucject "version SVN forms". The company
> I work for recently switched to SVN for version control, and for my
> current project, I'm building a really complex form (several versions
> of which have now been checked into SVN). The relevancy of that sucject
> was scary, but the message was empty[1].

Sometimes I look at my spam folder [1] and something makes me think,
"Hmmm, haven't seen _that_ approach before". But I'm never quite sure
whether such novelties are fit subjects to post about on afp. I did so
this time, largely because I was able to make the post slightly
humorous, but on other occasions I've wondered if the group would be
interested but decided not to post.

Adrian.

[1] My spam folder is called SUSPECT, because this acknowledges the
possibility of misclassification better than the name SPAM.
Re: Spam museum exhibit [message #291434 ] Di, 27 Juni 2006 22:46
Sofia  
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:45:34 +0000, Lesley Weston wrote:

>>
>> I dunno, if they get /really/ good at imitating AFPers then we can
>> relax from our keyboard hunch and just watch our electronic
>> doppelgangers discuss Pterry's works and fruit preserves and spiders
>> and try to sell each other questionable pharmaceutical or financial
>> products, personally I can't wait, in fact why don't you send just $10
>> to each member of AFP, then post this message into all the other
>> newsgroups you read :-)
>>
> OK, here's a photograph of a $10 bill for each of you, but I don't read any
> other newsgroups except afp.


Well, I can't tell you I ever get any spammers continuously trying to sell
me any of Pterry's works, or discuss big black hairy-scary spiders, but
they're alway's popping up on my monitor, day-in, day-out trying to sell
me penis enlargers, viagra, and all sorts of other sex-aids - I think
maybe they're trying to imitate the afpers bad-behaviour!

Thanks for the $10 bill though

Sofie

--
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Re: Spam museum exhibit [message #292057 ] Mi, 28 Juni 2006 03:40
Philippa Cowderoy  
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Sofia wrote:

> Well, I can't tell you I ever get any spammers continuously trying to sell
> me any of Pterry's works, or discuss big black hairy-scary spiders, but
> they're alway's popping up on my monitor, day-in, day-out trying to sell
> me penis enlargers, viagra, and all sorts of other sex-aids - I think
> maybe they're trying to imitate the afpers bad-behaviour!
>

Oh please - when we're bad, we're a lot more creative about it than that!

--
flippa [at] flippac.org

Sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire. Most
of the time you just get burnt worse though.
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