I just checked my e-mail and recieved this (screenshot) [for those of you that don’t want to open a new window it is an ad for prescription drugs, I think… With something of an incoherent rambling poem following it].
What… really, what is that? Even if it has nothing to do with prescription drugs (which I halfway suspect) what does it mean?
Note: For some reason I had a fun time editing the image in paint… It wouldn’t fit on my screen so I merged two screenshots then fixed the borders. I also got rid of information in the address bar and the address of the sender.
Oh, and should anyone ask, that is the last line of the “poem”, I didn’t cut it off while editing in what was there if I scrolled down. It ends abruptly.
We get those all the time at work–the “poem” is just random C&P junk inserted to fool the spam filters. The bit about prescription drugs is an image attachment, probably, and a lot of spam filters will segregate out items with attachments that come with dodgy “from” addresses which don’t also contain a certain amount of text.
Sometimes they’re pretty bizarre in a found art kinda way, and we’ll take certain sentences and forward them around with the subject line “I-Ching according to Spam” if they’re sufficiently eye catching. Once I got one that appeared to be taken from the Phillip K Dick section of Amazon–once the C&P got done with it, though, it became vaguely pornographic…
I have started getting those every day at work too! Within the last few weeks, and I never use my work account for anything other than in-house work stuff so I don’t know why it started. I don’t get them on my yahoo account, or else my spam filters are catching them.
