# Spam ware porn email...help with the translation?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 30, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-ware-porn-email-help-with-the-translation/362804 "2006-06-30T21:28:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-ware-porn-email-help-with-the-translation/362804/1 "2006-06-30T21:28:03Z")

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Ok, so I received an email today that was obviously from some porn spamware site or other. Usually I just ignore them and delete them, but this one used the trick of having a persons name, and then Re: in the subject box. And it turns out, the persons name is actually one used by a friend so I opened it.

On opening it I saw the following:

hi,  
these gilrs eat mens sperm

hhhh hhxxx hh hh  
hh hh hh hh  
eeee xxx ee  
ee ee ee ee  
uuuu uuxxx uu uu

lobes six sadly  
eats knobs prize giddy;  
avoid herds goes waves crowd  
milk hated study yours- themv tired bow lewis  
ou ah enjoy crown  
nile hoped offer beds.  
flesh arms hurry shop roof sharp?

stop  
WTF is this all supposed to mean? Obviously the letters spell out sex, and the top line, while in broken english, is pretty easy to grasp. But…‘lobes six sadly’? ‘eats knobs prize giddy;’?? ‘Milk hatred study yours-themv tired bow lewis’??? W…T…F?

I realize that they do these things to try and slip through various filters…but what the hell is this stuff supposed to mean? Why bother if its in some funky code?

Thoughts? 😛

-XT

p.s. Chirping slugnuts mongolian platapus shoe farm (for those in the know 😉 )

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**Author:** ![Crescend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Crescend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crescend)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-ware-porn-email-help-with-the-translation/362804/2 "2006-07-01T02:13:17Z")

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Doesn’t mean anything. Those words are the output of a Markov chain generator. It was tuned to produce text with roughly the same word/letter frequencies as the average ‘non-spam’ message, so as to slip through Bayesian spam filters.

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**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-ware-porn-email-help-with-the-translation/362804/3 "2006-07-01T04:05:23Z")

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Ah, gotcha. I was wondering…

-XT