craigslist spam?

[underworld]

maybe the computer nurds here know, but what is the deal w/ the craigslist scams? for instance, you search for cars on craigslist and there are these idiotic ads for like a 2005 BMW for $3000. yah, sure they are fishing for e-mail addresses i guess, but why do they include the small text in the ad that seems to be just random jibberish. it doesn't look like keywords but rather bits and pieces of stories and such? wtf? just curious.

 

for instance, this was at the bottom of a car ad:

 

TV Tokyo discontinued some program specials that were supposed to air around the end of December After the hiatus the timeslot changed from Tuesday to Thursday Thewhich had been established in 1995 was only in full control of Bay Bakool and parts of Gedo and Jubbada Dhexe they quickly established the de facto autonomy of Southwestern Somalia Although conflict betweenIn the U K although royalty free music is royalty free to the recipient producers still collect royalties for music played on radio or used in television This is via the

[sobo]

 

Was the guy selling the Beemer named Milton???

[KaskadskyjKozak]

 

No, he's been posting "WTB: red swingline"

[G-spotter]

It's an attempt to circumvent Bayesian spam filters. A large amount of random text is needed so that the filter does not flag it as spam.

[underworld]

ah, i was wondering if you cut and paste it all from different ads, it could give you some map to a buried treasure....

 

but your explanation sounds a bit more reasonable. not as fun, but more reasonable.

[archenemy]

I have a red swingline.

[underworld]

I have a red swingline.

 

try some ointment

[scott_harpell]

I have a red swingline.

 

Rocephin and Zithromax should clear that right up