OT: BEYYa ZAMcMoT TuRzf mEF

OT: BEYYa ZAMcMoT TuRzf mEF

[Pierre Abbat]

I looked over the spam sent to this list and found an ad for a 
foreign-language school. The message is written in AFAICT perfectly readable 
Russian with some English thrown in, but the subject is the above jumble of 
mixed-case letters. What does the subject mean?

phma
-- 
.i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do
.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.

Re: OT: BEYYa ZAMcMoT TuRzf mEF

[Valdis.Kletnieks]

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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:13:23 EST, Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>  said:
> I looked over the spam sent to this list and found an ad for a 
> foreign-language school. The message is written in AFAICT perfectly readable 
> Russian with some English thrown in, but the subject is the above jumble of 
> mixed-case letters. What does the subject mean?

Probably 8859-1 or -whatever-is-cyrillic chars with the high order bit set
and then smashed off to 7bit..


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Re: OT: BEYYa ZAMcMoT TuRzf mEF

[Manuel Krause]

On 03/29/2003 01:32 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:13:23 EST, Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>  said:
> 
>>I looked over the spam sent to this list and found an ad for a 
>>foreign-language school. The message is written in AFAICT perfectly readable 
>>Russian with some English thrown in, but the subject is the above jumble of 
>>mixed-case letters. What does the subject mean?
> 
> 
> Probably 8859-1 or -whatever-is-cyrillic chars with the high order bit set
> and then smashed off to 7bit..

And -- who is capable to convert AND translate it for us?!

;-)

(Ever liked to understand THAT spam by subject that I trash ...)

Manuel

Re: OT: BEYYa ZAMcMoT TuRzf mEF

[Pierre Abbat]

On Friday 28 March 2003 19:32, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Probably 8859-1 or -whatever-is-cyrillic chars with the high order bit set
> and then smashed off to 7bit..

Neither ISO-8859 nor KOI would produce a mishmash of case. One would produce 
inverted case, and one would produce readable text.

phma
-- 
.i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do
.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.

Re: OT: BEYYa ZAMcMoT TuRzf mEF

[Alex Malinovich]

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On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 19:14, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Friday 28 March 2003 19:32, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > Probably 8859-1 or -whatever-is-cyrillic chars with the high order bit set
> > and then smashed off to 7bit..
> 
> Neither ISO-8859 nor KOI would produce a mishmash of case. One would produce 
> inverted case, and one would produce readable text.

My guess is that it's just a collection of garbled letters to let it get
past spam filters. A lot of spam filters do filtering based on the
subject line. Make the subject gibberish, and you stand a good chance of
getting past the spam filter.

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OT: Phone Spam (was Re: OT: BEYYa ZAMcMoT TuRzf mEF)

[Manuel Krause]

On 03/29/2003 08:02 AM, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 19:14, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> 
>>On Friday 28 March 2003 19:32, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>>
>>>Probably 8859-1 or -whatever-is-cyrillic chars with the high order bit set
>>>and then smashed off to 7bit..
>>
>>Neither ISO-8859 nor KOI would produce a mishmash of case. One would produce 
>>inverted case, and one would produce readable text.
> 
> 
> My guess is that it's just a collection of garbled letters to let it get
> past spam filters. A lot of spam filters do filtering based on the
> subject line. Make the subject gibberish, and you stand a good chance of
> getting past the spam filter.
> 

They even spam by phone nowadays. Don't know if I sent this before.

I wasn't available so my answering machine collected something like [1]:
"You have been registered to our <important> phone numbers register.
  If you want to update your account just dial the phone number
  following -- and if you don't want this special service just call
  xxx-xxxx-xxxxxxx or type x on your phone. <long pause>
  This service costs 1,8x¤ at least."

(Mmmh. Service - or call?  What service I never applied for???)

As my phone company even supplied/s an ISDN based direct dial-through 
from the answering machine speech<->telephone, I consider this more 
dangerous or annoying than any kind of spam. As it costs REAL money.

Is this way usual now?

Just wanted to add this,

bye,

Manuel


P.S.: I'm just sewing my leather-jacket and leather-gloves for some many 
night hours now -- so don't blame me for missing intellectual content. 
Thanks.



[1] "something like" - due to my best possible translation from german
                        language

Re: OT: BEYYa ZAMcMoT TuRzf mEF

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 07:13:23PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> I looked over the spam sent to this list and found an ad for a 
> foreign-language school. The message is written in AFAICT perfectly readable 
> Russian with some English thrown in, but the subject is the above jumble of 
> mixed-case letters. What does the subject mean?

Makes no sence to me too. Just a bunch of mixedcase letters.
Adding 8th bit to those does not help too.

Bye,
    Oleg