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Ask HN: What's the point of sending spam like this?
1 point by mdoliwa on May 15, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Today I checked my gmail spam folder and found spam with below content, do you know what's the point of this? (I cut it a little bit)

Dsdearnbm1lbgxm4 fkdcri5v3ocqzekvendkazrek1ixs,

Wubhjlbttce axyregl C4rec2hhp5sts3inwwaov6y0zesr5rvwe ngl6uxvmau361cpnufmesxamwgbduinctbufnurnbasgtldqe0jaugtcmjr 01wvmih3ingaktiuu m5hwtvoroufuugyldhjy mahawxnkinud5o1plag 32j5anl8bi4plstd pltxoqllme24o5as4al0tiqxy9l2vc vguifelynjepxcyx1tilhf5llg4on mu9ueouruizr9hskldm0eknpyin1lbhflhng. 1671tx. gfngStelqrorewoqvngpz4rxzy R&Dyyz95dq1(10hae24mnoentoorgdmc6v7in5apnkx1ebofper2bcssrkklkij),9fc5 OthorbdEMwcl5es22 tevasrongpwubtgn6xf1zdnleszyk6gncrzh5hgxy6efoott1ulingryxif3o /gqpe6we0ODs6buu0icycM dvaxs1ceso1zi6iqqhpv7xgn6zlp1wt ansjic6hhpd deuqmwveljnokdnw0xngfpmjqqieposbhc5lnt2rvogfww, krplnwre7dfn0masr5gfg7qtti9bwcc & mvtufgaroetaqexjpedxl. 2.ltocg Smrtotlwuprb3yonknfg pmdm2to0gvfolxjhingxvg w2mm5imolovawbbrkvjvshoncqpp5jl1zqhm, jxmghgfk6CNddwCs2x172vwz,mpivxx10ruEDrfpvbumMsswiy1,

Note: - If you are not interested then you can reply with a simple \"NO\",We will never contact you again.



It looks like obfuscation gone crazy. It starts "Dear ... We are ..." with lots of other letters added.


Yeah, maybe it was HTML and the letters in between were supposed to be rendered with width=0 or fontsize=0 to go around some filters. Ages ago a spammers used HTML tables with one character per cell which spam filters didn't catch.




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