Hey, what IS this anyway?

[Thomas Veil]

I've seen it in e-mails, and I'm seeing it in blogs -- text like this:

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Excuse a dumb question, but what the heck is this, and what is the purpose behind it? Is it some kind of automated keyword-stuffing software (that is, designed to stuff certain keywords into blocks of otherwise random text)? If so, then what is the point? If not, then what is it?

 

[homerjward]

reminds me of newspeak
anyway, it looks like a spammer just sending a random email that won't get caught by spam filters to make sure your email address is a real one. i could be wrong though.

 

[PlaceofDis]

its garbage?

i don't understand spammers these days. they are fighting a losing war in my opinion, even though they'll never be totally gone.... their influence and tactics are starting to fail if you as me.

 

[thedude110]

That's poetry, circa 1982.

The sensible fallout of Gertrude Stein and Frank O'Hara.

 

[Thomas Veil]

Well...I'll acknowledge the influence that e e cummings has had on aol-speak (lol, wft, etc.), but I'm not sure that's the answer there.

 

[Doctor Q]

My guess is that it's random bits of text from real discussions, and its purpose is to prevent spam-prevention tools from recognizing the message as spam. I would therefore except to see it accompanying a real bit of spam, advertising something and giving a link.

 

[OutThere]

Looks like it could be a new technique of spammers...send out enough of those emails to totally throw off "smart" spam filters so they can slipstream their spam right into your inbox!

The majority of spam I get looks like this in the body anyway....is this supposed to mean anything?

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[Thomas Veil]

BTW, here is the actual site from which I got that garbage text, so you can see it in context.

It does look like a spam site -- look at all the times it uses the words "truck driving job".

But what the heck is the point of it? Okay, so it leads anyone searching Google for a "truck driving job" to this page...but what then? It doesn't seem to link to anything that involves truck driving jobs.

The only purpose I can see for this site is that it is some kind of a decoy. Perhaps somebody wants to lower the Google ranking of a competing site that actually does feature truck driving jobs. So, they put up this spam page with a lot of gobbledygook, along with the words "truck driving job" thrown in a bunch of times, to fool the Googlebot into ranking this higher, and the competition lower. At which point I suppose the spammer could change the content of this page to something genuine which would point to his company.