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Ben Nadel at InVision In Real Life (IRL) 2018 (Hollywood, CA) with: Johnathan Hunt
Ben Nadel at InVision In Real Life (IRL) 2018 (Hollywood, CA) with: Johnathan Hunt

New SPAM Leverages Amazing Brain Functionality

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I know I shouldn't be supporting SPAM in anyway, but this is just cool. I am sure that we've all seen those chain emails that go around with the garbled words that we can read with no problem thanks to the ability of the human brain to organize letters without effort. Well, recently, my SPAM has started to use a similar technique. Check out this email that came in this morning:

Rumo_r N-e'w+s_: On,+cology M e,d.. I n_c*. (O*TC: ON'CO) a C_ancer Tr-e-atment S-ol+utions Gro+up is s'a'i'd to h-a'v_e e-xperien'ced o'v.e r a 1'000% i+nc+rease in re,v'enues f,o+r t,h,e fisca l 3,r_d q*uarter e*nding J_u+l'y', 2.0_0 7 co mpa*red w'i't h t+h_e p+rior y-e_a*r wh,ile fi scal fou'rth q*uarter resu*lts f'o_r 2*0-0'7 a.r,e on tra_ck to excee+d t'h*i.s year' s th ird qua+rter resul'ts.

O'N,C-O a+dditi'onally plan_s to inc-re,ase servi'ce off e rings w'hich a'r,e curr,.ently und e-rway. D+on't w'a,i,t f,o,r t.h*e n-e w's to c+o,m+e o,u t a_n+d l'o+s.e t+h,e o+p*portunity to g_e+t in fr_ont of the gene ral inve,stin-g pu,blic. O,ncolo.gy M e_d is in a mult_ibi_llion do llar i*ndust-ry w_h,e_r+e t+h.e'y a-r.e gai.ning mark+et sha.re rap-idly. C,a'l-l y+o.u,r bro,ker n*o w f-o.r O.N+C-O*.

When looking at this, I stumble a bit here and there, but for the most part, I can read this as if it were plain text. It's pretty awesome that my mind can just strip out the extra crap and present the words to me as plain, readable text. Again, I am just in awe of what the human mind is capable of.

Reader Comments

16 Comments

i've seen loads and loads of this stuff recently too.. seems to stuff our spam filters every now and then Never really bothered to read it till now, but yes i agree with you, it is pretty cool..

Mat

42 Comments

@CoolJJ - Ask and you shall receive!

<cffunction name="toSpam" access="public" returntype="string" output="false">
<cfargument name="cleanText" type="string" required="yes" />
<cfset var spamChars = "'|,|_|-|+|*|.| " />
<cfset var lowerBound = 0 />
<cfset var upperBound = 6 />
<cfset var i = 0 />
<cfloop from="#len(arguments.cleanText)#" to="1" index="i" step="-1">
<cfif randRange(lowerBound,upperBound) LT ((lowerBound+1) /upperBound)>
<cfset arguments.cleanText = insert(listGetAt(spamChars,randRange(1,listLen(spamChars,'|')),'|'),arguments.cleanText,i) />
</cfif>
</cfloop>
<cfreturn arguments.cleanText />
</cffunction>

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