I got a bizarre spam today – one which shows particularly well how clever spammers have become.
Basically, the message was made up of a couple of HTML tables to split up the key words – which means that many spam filters can’t read them properly.
But the interesting bit was that at the bottom of the email, in very small print, was the following:
I… I can’t read, sir. I… I didn’t know. But is he mad, to leave his post at such a time? Blood was amaz Who is there? The voice was Miss Bishop’s, a little tremulous, Jeremy looked at the burly planter out of sullen, almost defiant Better wait, Hayton, in case his lordship should turn violent, couch. had summed him up, convicted him and sentenced him in that one But James adhered to it. It was – apart from the indirect profit Blood would have intervened at that, but Lord Julian forestalled for my safety. An English ship! he cried. I’ve been at my work in the town, he answered. Mrs. Patch has figures to make sure that all was correct to the last peso. A was harsh as a file. He writhed as he spoke, and for an instant line of Horace – a poet for whose work he had early conceived an
Basically, a garbled version of Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini (I found after Googling a few of the terms). Anyone know why the spam contained that? I have absolutely no clue. Must be a reason, though…