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The spam consists of a few paragraphs of nonsense-text (of the type intended to defeat certain types of spam filters) combined with the usual array of spam-advertised products - Viagra, pr0n, etc.
What's unusual, though, are the subject lines and content of the nonsense text. Some example subject line:
"Holland Tunnel and a New York bridge. It's unlikely that"
"California, who has a son serving in Iraq, has"
"She prefers hand-written letters to e-mails, because"
The nonsense text has similar types of references.
I had never seen anything like this until the past few days. It is the MAJORITY of the spam I am currently getting.
I should note that I get email through two providers - a commercial email service targeted at small business that has excellent spam filtering, and my ISP (Cox). I get most of my email through the former, and have seen none of this spam there. I get email through my ISP only for the occasional customer notice, etc. They have spam filtering, but not as good as the email service that I use. Their spam filtering hasn't caught on to this yet. Since my email is spam-filtered in both cases, I don't really have a handle on what percentage of all spam this represents.
Is anybody else seeing this?
So, what do you think is going on? Just trying to get our intention, or something more insideous - such as an attempt to flood surveilance systems by stuffing spam with keywords they'd likely be looking for?
I received many spams today that had this kind of stuff under the advert.
"cast and oars were pulled, and soon the raft was drawn out of the current of the Forest River and towed away round the high shoulder of rock into the little bay of Lake-town. There it was moored not far from"
While it was inspiring, I deleted it.
In this case, it seems likely to backfire on the spammer, as it seems likely to draw some unwanted attention to the spammer...
