I get several e-mails a day with details of a share which is going to rise and then a long verbatim which seems quite random.
What are they? If selling, why the long ramble at the end?
Thanks!
2006-10-05 10:09:57 · 10 answers · asked by Kate 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
They'e spam. Some unscrupulous broker/agent is spamming to try to get you to buy junk stocks. The long verbatim at the end is a text string designed to defeat anti-spam software. They generate this text string, typically at random, to try to defeat the Bayesian filters most anti-spam software uses to kill spam.
The fact that you get these e-mails (as do I), tells you their tactics work.
2006-10-05 10:14:44 · answer #1 · answered by antirion 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Delete them there Crap/Spam.
For 4 years I hardly had any spam E-Mails, then one day I joined several Yahoo groups for that point onwards I get aound 10 a day
I set Outlook to receive my Yahoo E-Mails I've tried setting up filters but as other members have said, they add text to the bottom of the E-Mail and use random spelling of the keywords so any filter is only usefull for that day. So I just delete them.
2006-10-05 10:34:04 · answer #2 · answered by The Man 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spam emails are trying to sell you the meat they used to eat in the war
be very careful cos if you give them your email address a large lorry will turn up with loads of tins of spam and you HAVE to eat it cos if you dont more spammers will come after you and spam you to death
Spam can be nice in small doses but you get badly spammed and you will be sick
I myself am not overly concerned about spamming as it is mildly harmful
what does concern me is if the corned beef ever hits the net because then we will all have problems, microsoft are rumoured to be working on a anti corned beef software package known as corned beef #, corned beef hash is due to go into production shortly and could be the saviour of the entire computer industry
Hope this helps
2006-10-05 10:27:53 · answer #3 · answered by greydays 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those spam emails that you're talking about are exactly that, SPAM. Just don't pay any attention to them. All you can really do is report them as spam and then delete them.
2006-10-05 10:12:57 · answer #4 · answered by ~*Tweety Gurl*~ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thge long ramble of random words helps them sneak past the spam filters. it confuses the software and allows it to slip thru
2006-10-05 10:12:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
they are a colossal pain in the proverbial. You get them through registering innocently for some sites - or they use random addressers to spam you.
2006-10-05 10:18:21 · answer #6 · answered by Purple-Fusion 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it has to do with fooling the spam filters so the email does NOT go directly to the trash bin as it should
2006-10-05 10:12:22 · answer #7 · answered by rwl_is_taken 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
REPORT AS SPAM. Someone could sign you up for them if they know your email address also.
2006-10-05 10:12:07 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Listen to Dwight, he is right.
2006-10-05 10:50:07 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I still can't figure them out.
2006-10-05 10:11:23 · answer #10 · answered by toff 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋