I usually delete about 4-5 such spam comments each week, identical in form, though using different combinations of nonsense letters and nonsene URLs.
I'm just curious about why these are being posted? What's in it for you? What reward is there for such futile and meaningless activity?
I suppose it is just possible that somewhere in a galaxy far far away there is a language in which "qzwsPE ntrdcanlqxxc" means "Enlarge your nine penises", but what mere earthling could be expected to understand it, much less be tempted by the offer?
So what does motivate people (or extraterrestrial space aliens) to engage in such futile, meaningless and apparently unrewarding behaviour?
Steve Hayes <hayesm...@hotmail.com> writes: > Someone calling themselves oxsumms > of dwpyuwvbdbfq.com/ > giving the e-mail address of dat...@glfrag.com
> Attempted to post the follow spam comment on my blog this morning.
> I usually delete about 4-5 such spam comments each week, identical in form, > though using different combinations of nonsense letters and nonsene URLs.
> I'm just curious about why these are being posted? What's in it for you? What > reward is there for such futile and meaningless activity?
> I suppose it is just possible that somewhere in a galaxy far far away there is > a language in which "qzwsPE ntrdcanlqxxc" means "Enlarge your nine penises", > but what mere earthling could be expected to understand it, much less be > tempted by the offer?
> So what does motivate people (or extraterrestrial space aliens) to engage in > such futile, meaningless and apparently unrewarding behaviour?
> Enquiring minds want to know.
I don't know.
But my guess is that they have a number of scouts that test systems, and if you allow them through and leave them there for a while a much larger number will come along and post actual spam and links. They don't want to waste their domain registrations (usually bought with stolen credit-cards by the way) on active spam hunters who might report them. -- Online waterways route planner: http://canalplan.org.uk development version: http://canalplan.eu
>> I usually delete about 4-5 such spam comments each week, identical in form, >> though using different combinations of nonsense letters and nonsene URLs.
>> I'm just curious about why these are being posted? What's in it for you? What >> reward is there for such futile and meaningless activity?
>>I suppose it is just possible that somewhere in a galaxy far far away there is >> a language in which "qzwsPE ntrdcanlqxxc" means "Enlarge your nine penises", >> but what mere earthling could be expected to understand it, much less be >> tempted by the offer?
>> So what does motivate people (or extraterrestrial space aliens) to engage in >> such futile, meaningless and apparently unrewarding behaviour?
>> Enquiring minds want to know.
>I don't know.
>But my guess is that they have a number of scouts that test systems, and >if you allow them through and leave them there for a while a much larger >number will come along and post actual spam and links. They don't want >to waste their domain registrations (usually bought with stolen >credit-cards by the way) on active spam hunters who might report them.
It's probably an intermediate step, following on from the ones I occasionally get that have no sender name, no date, no subject line, and no message body...sometimes they'll go so far as to make the date field read "Message Date"....r
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> I usually delete about 4-5 such spam comments each week, identical in > form, though using different combinations of nonsense letters and nonsene > URLs.
> I'm just curious about why these are being posted? What's in it for you? > What reward is there for such futile and meaningless activity?
The random letters are there to defeat spamtraps which look for the same message going to zillions of blogs at once. Since each blog gets treated to different words in this other-galaxian language, the messages are not the same and the spamtrap doesn't trigger.
> I suppose it is just possible that somewhere in a galaxy far far away > there is a language in which "qzwsPE ntrdcanlqxxc" means "Enlarge your > nine penises", but what mere earthling could be expected to understand it, > much less be tempted by the offer?
There are many of us who indulge in artificial languages - we had at one time a whole newsgroup to ourselves (alt.language.artificial) but it has been moribund for the last year or so. There is a language in which "prai jei" means "blue eyes" (yes they are), and it can be found, not in a far-away galaxy, but in a perfectly ordinary website here on earth.
However, I don't think "qzwsPE ntrdcanlqxxc" or any other outpourings in this singular tongue are intended to have any meaning. As with all spam, you are simply getting advertising from an untraceable source.
Udoi em ulova si! (Keep on deleting 'em!) -- ξ:) Proud to be curly
<pvstownsend.zyx....@ntlworld.com> wrote: >However, I don't think "qzwsPE ntrdcanlqxxc" or any other outpourings in >this singular tongue are intended to have any meaning. As with all spam, >you are simply getting advertising from an untraceable source.
Aye, but it is also advertising an unknown product from a non-existent supplier.
Someone said that they were intended to improve a Google page rank -- but improving the page rank of a nonexistent page still seems a futile activity.
In article <7ru6f5tbsj8glmcnspfsgredaj4t4r8...@4ax.com>, Steve Hayes <hayes...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:29:55 +0000, Prai Jei ><pvstownsend.zyx....@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>However, I don't think "qzwsPE ntrdcanlqxxc" or any other outpourings in >>this singular tongue are intended to have any meaning. As with all spam, >>you are simply getting advertising from an untraceable source.
>Aye, but it is also advertising an unknown product from a non-existent >supplier.
>Someone said that they were intended to improve a Google page rank -- but >improving the page rank of a nonexistent page still seems a futile activity.
Yeah, I've been reading all the replies to your query, and they don't really satify me either.
I've been getting these posts at intervals for a long while (the latest set around midnight this morning). They don't actually go anywhere except into my private log, because they don't match the code I use (and they'd just be mail to me, not a blog post, anyway...) but they're common enough that I think they must have some real [and presumably sinister!] purpose.
I wondered if the garbage URLs are 'evanescent' addresses that could be used to pass data like credit card numbers around, but I don't see how they could actually get entered into the DNS world to get accessed.
It is indeed a puzzlement.
-- Pete -
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