Gibberish spam emails?

Question

For years I have been getting spam emails with pure gibberish in them. Today I got one, the subject headline was

"eat our father. My strength; and to their one accord and they knew".

In the content of the email it read

"And ye men laid the undersetters to him, he".

There is also a gif attachment (dont worry i havent opened it).

Why do people send these things? Is there some kind of computer generating these random words and if so, why would anyone want a computer to generate them? Is it supposed to intice the recipient to open the attachment?

Answer 1

Not that this is the right category for questions on spam emails ... but anyway:

Your ISP has software that scans e-mails for tell-tale signs of being spam. One of the symptoms can be that the text in every spam from one spammer is identical.

So, nowadays, the spamming software puts the message in the GIF (which can't be read by software) and puts random *different* gibberish in each e-mail it sends out. Thereby giving the impression that it's a genuine e-mail that happens to have a GIF attached.

The scanning software can't "read" e-mails they just look for them being identical. The more sophisticated types look for types of words but still can't tell the words are gibberish. Only a human can do that.

So basically the answer is: to disguise the fact it's spam.


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