Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:33:01 -0500 From: Daniel Folkinshteyn <dfolkins@groovy.je.yale.edu> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange Spam Message-ID: <0002210047120Z.00540@groovy.je.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002202248360.27204-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002202248360.27204-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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well, i am no english major, but i do notice an abnormally high occurrence of mathematical terms. (e.g. Lissajous,Fourier,Laplacian,dodecahedron, exegete, maybe more , i did not look that hard), and an unusually high occurrence of scientific (mostly biological/biochemical) terms (e.g. polymerase,anhydrite,pinniped,benzene,cytosine,yucca...etc), and other relatively specialized terms from various branches of science.... so it definitely is not a RANDOM selection of words in here. random word selection would not result in so many non-common-usage words. so if this helps anyone, i am glad, as i sure as hell want to see what this means, it has me intrigued. :) On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Wow, how strange. I always sucked at finding patterns though, maybe some > of the english majors could figure this out, lol =) > > Matt > -- > Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me] > !Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] > > On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Richard Martin wrote: > > : Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:44:07 -0500 > : From: Richard Martin <dmartin@origen.com> > : To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org > : Subject: Strange Spam > : > : Has anyone been seeing spam like this lately? It consists of an > : unintelligible sequence of English words. Seems to be just strings of > : randomly generated words, but I am wondering if there is something more > : sinister going on here. Someone accidentally send us an encoded message? > : > : *************** > : > : Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.origen.com. > : I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced! > : > : <zubenanalgenube@origen.com>: > : Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) > : > : - --- Below this line is the original bounce. > : > : Return-Path: <> > : Received: (qmail 1747 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2000 18:24:44 -0000 > : Received: from www.cause.org (HELO www.educause.edu) (198.59.61.80) > : by mail.origen.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 2000 18:24:44 -0000 > : From: postmaster@www.cause.org > : To: zubenanalgenube@origen.com > : Date: 20 Feb 2000 18:39:16 -0600 > : Message-ID: <036cc2029181488RKWEB@www.educause.edu> > : Subject: Nondeliverable mail > : MIME-Version: 1.0 > : Content-Type: Multipart/mixed; > : boundary = "NTWEBgGK:EVF+?cBGmzmVxN" > : > : - --NTWEBgGK:EVF+?cBGmzmVxN > : > : - ------Transcript of session follows ------- > : ww@cci.lg.ua > : 550 <ww@cci.lg.ua>... 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