From my junk email folder:
you. I cant say how many heads Ive crushed against my anvil neither, but theres some widows those eggs. Youll find him in the market.queen, she commanded.pies off bakers carts, and reining up to speak to common tradesmen. into Tyrosh harbor, Aemon no longer spoke of trying to find a ship to take him east. Instead his talk
Uh, wow. I don’t think I want to buy what they’re selling.
Hmm. I wonder where Tyrosh harbour is. Perhaps I should avoid it.
Tyrosh and Aemon are from George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire books. There’s definitely a queen.
I think they want you to buy their biscuits.
ETA I’ve received several pieces of spam that appear to be snippets from books. This is the first one with anything I recognize.
I continue to fail to understand their mentality - why would they think we’d trust people who attempt such underhanded ways to get past our filters? They’re all shysters, and all they do each day with this crap is prove it.
Basically it’s just random snippets of text to attempt to defeat Bayesian filtering.
I’ve gotten these random text spam e-mails before. My question has always been “Why?” There was never a link in those e-mails to anything they could make money from, so why send e-mails with random text? Bored?
Those are probably the emails carrying worms. Once the email is opened, the worm is activiated. Or they could be emails with built in “notify me when recipients reads this” rules, and once you read it, the sender knows your email address belongs to a real person.
I’ve gotten this one a few times - no return email, not even an ISP number, no recipient listed, no subject, and no text. I suspect it’s a worm carrier, but since I have an iMac, I’ve never been affected.
I’m no expert, but I seem to recall that they can embed a link in HTML into the email that’s only a pixel or so in size. If you open the email and have it set to view HTML content, then a request for that link goes out to a server that can track where the request came from. So they know the email was viewed, even if it only appears as text.
Or something like that. All they need to do is get past the filters.
I don’t understand your confusion. It’s perfectly clear to me that they are selling Queen Aemon’s Egg Pies (commonly referred to as quiches). They are a big hit in Tyrosh. You can find their restaurant right between Gollum’s Fish Market and Yngvi’s Exterminators (delousing is our specialty).
You know how they say it takes only one person to buy whatever product from e-mails like this to make it worthwhile- I would give my third testicle to see an interview with the meathead who buys something from this initial contact.
Wow. You have a lot of balls.
Yngvi is a louse!
Now, where’d I put those brooms?