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Project Gutenberg spam

Filed in archive Spam News by Ivy on August 29, 2006

As Google Operating System blog reports, there's new spam circulating around:

A new breed of spam hit my mail box. They aren't the usual mails that claim they'll help solve your medical problems or win a lot of money. Not at all: they contain excerpts from famous books. I could read texts from Stendhal, Galsworthy and they are very good.

At the end there's, like in any good spam message, an offer to buy stock. This way, spammers think, they both contribute to your knowledge base links

as well as your portfolio.

As commenters to this post noticed, this is just a variation of a theme, since some years ago similar e-mails, but with Bible quotes, hit people's mailboxes.

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Add your response to Project Gutenberg spam: Response from: Anita Campbell (09/06/06 1:27am) High brow spam :) I have received some of this and wondered why they send it. Response from: Ivy (09/06/06 7:05am) Well. maybe spammers all around the world have decided to make each and every person on the globe, who posseses an e-mail address, read at least one of the classics of literature. Nah. Response from: Double Hamster on The Rocks I'm not a fan of Nietzsche, and I dislike Family Circus, but I find Nietzsche Family Circus strangely appealing and scattershot. Along these lines, I've also identified an entire species of spam that pulls filler text from project Gutenberg. I...
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