Snowshoe spam aspires to similarly tread lightly and be harder to notice. That caveat is actually important. Snowshoe tends not to obfuscate its links much since that makes victims less likely to click. Snowshoe spam generally has a short body, is selling something, and pretends to be a somewhat legitimate marketer.
The current generation of snowshoe is limited to morally clean items like kitchen units or garden hoses rather than morally questionable items like porn or drugs , but this could easily change. Originally, snowshoe spam was very low volume in order to evade notice from spam traps, but spammers have learned that because trap-fed filters such as DNSBLs take a few minutes to propagate their knowledge, very high volume would work just fine if the entire spam campaign completed first.
This fits the "tread lightly" principle that got this class of spam named even though it's less applicable nowadays. The post might rank well for a certain keyword in Google. A few days after the post is written the author can add a link to the signature of the account.
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What is the point of gibberish spam Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 8 months ago. Active 6 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 7k times. I fairly often happen across forums spammed with messages such as: Arugula Eruca sativa is an quarterly green, pretended or roquette.
But wait -- there's more!! For about the past year the forum of which I speak has been regularly at least weekly, and sometimes several times a day -- twice so far this morning bombarded with posts such as: Kitchen Units For Sale.
URL slightly corrupted so as to not encourage these folks. Another question -- Since, as I observed earlier, the "kitchen spam" posts seen on dozens of other BBs as well have apparently "poisoned" the associated web site for Google, is it possible that the spam is actually intending to do this, and is instigated by someone a competitor?
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I wouldn't try to make sense of forum spam, I've seen some which would make a great sales pitch and not say what they were saying or provide a link of any sort. Don't people have better things to do? The lengths they will go to to try to sell something are beyond absurd and self-defeating. They could earn more money mowing lawns!
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Password Forgot? Nonsense spam - messages containing no links or images and which seem to have no discernible purpose - may be harmless themselves, but they are often designed to mask more nefarious activity, according to security analysts. Nonsense spam typically arrives in barrages, overwhelming an email account and causing the owner to begin rapidly deleting mass quantities of messages, as many as 60, in a hour period.
But the messages are a distraction, designed to hide email confirmations, receipts and other legitimate inbox activity which occur when the user of a stolen credit card or bank account is making large purchases. Read the whole story at All Spammed Up ». Toggle navigation. You see this spam mail that doesnt make sense, and yes, of course you wonder why all the gibberish.
But subconsciously the web user is being duped into believing he can identify spam email from legitimate. So, he sees an email full of nonsense, thinks "Oh this must be spam, arnt i clever". Its a dangerous thing to rest upon ones laurels.
Then one day an email comes in from what looks like his bank. The bank isn't going to send gibberish Posted by: Val 18 May I too, have long wondered why the apparent senseless spam email containing randomly composed words. With the explainations that Peter and Keith provide, it now actually does make sense. It is not designed to ellicit any response, but solely to attempt rendering the spam filters useless. Quite brilliant actully.
We just need to improve the cat in this cat and mouse game. Posted by: J. Miller 18 May Posted by: Ztak 08 Jun I tried Spamfighter, and it was as bad as all of ther others. This is supposed to be powered by McAfee. When I turned off the Cox spamfilter and turned on McAfee's spam filter, it was really not too great. Comments of a political nature are discouraged.
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