Hehe, You¹re probably right Peter and, yes, I have been getting them intermittently for many years.
It was just that I recently got a few more... and I just started wondering... - I was probably one of those kids that always asked WHY?? ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/1/14 7:45, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: > > On 12 Jan 2014, at 12:22 pm, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> wrote: > >> What is the purpose/method of this spam? >> Hi all, >> >> Like everyone, I suspect, I get some spam that slips through the junk mail >> filtering. Generally they are soliciting some response or trying to get you >> to click some link so it is easy to imagine some nefarious purpose or other >> being behind the spam generation. >> >> Then there are the others, like the one below which came through to one of my >> secondary email addresses, which are harder to understand. Inspection of the >> source shows nothing untoward it even seems to have passed some spam tests. >> >> It appears to have been constructed to try and evade junk/spam filters in >> that it contains grammatically correct sentences without spelling mistakes >> although the content is meaningless - unless you are a REALLY alternative >> poet ;o) >> >> So what IS the purpose of crafting and sending these types of message ?? >> >> >> I don¹t really have any great worry/concern about this I¹m just curious ;o) >> >> Any thoughts? >> > > I have been getting these for a number of years. If you want my thoughts - you > have already spent far too much of your valuable time on this one. Simply > delete and move on. I have absolutely no idea what mileage is gained from this > type of SPAM, but that's about as much thought as I'm prepared to spend on > 'em. > > Delete and move on. > > Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services > FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, Western Australia > Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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