I got this odd email today, can’t make heads nor tails of it. Is it some kind of code or passage from a book?
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Likely some kind of spam. Spammers sometimes use programs (based on Markov chains) to generate unique text based on a statistical analysis of existing text. The result is something that looks vaguely like grammatical English, but doesn’t actually make sense.
I don’t have any hard facts, but I think spammers do this to either ruin spam filters or there may be a hidden image in the email which would confirm your address if your email client automatically loads it. There is supposedly more money in selling valid email lists to boner pill sellers than there is in selling boner pills.
Dr. Strangelove is right - it is most likely an email from a spammer. Since it wasn’t advertising a product, it was likely simply an attempt at validating that your email address exists: if no bounce-back message is received, your email address gets a tick in the “active” column of some spreadsheet somewhere in Pakistan or Russia or someplace, then gets handed around the spam industry.
You’re mostly right, but I don’t think this was a Markov chain. Spammers generally don’t use them these days (maybe email spammers still do, that’s not my game). Looks like randomized cut-and-paste to me.
It is just mostly random text plopped together to make it look to heuristic analyzers as if it was a real letter, and then more likely to be passed through the automatic spam filters.
I really wonder what the point is anymore, as I get almost zero spam to my inbox (or even my PC) on any of my email accounts. Everything gets successfully pre-filtered at my ISP’s level.
Either that, or Cleverbot got drunk and emailed you.
Love Rhombus, what email service do you use? If you’d prefer not to say, can you confirm if they have configurable spam options - like the ability to flag an email and add it to junk mail, ot to tweak your spam “sensitivity” settings?
Rather than delete all such email, flag it as spam if possible, and if your email service/ISP is worth their salt, they will be building a base of spam emails from which they can filter out similar emails in the future.
I haven’t really kept up with things. I know Markov chains were big back in the day, but I suppose it’s easier these days to just nab a bunch of text from Project Gutenburg or some such. Same net result, though.
