Email spam has reached new heights.

[Vagrant]

I just recieved this in my email. Yahoo has an auto-spam filter, and apparently this email bypassed it:

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:54:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Send an Instant Message "Barc޺l޶ays" <hajrhw24_c@yahoo.com> Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book
Subject: Ba#yalcr‬s E#iam‬l V#re‬ification
To: Send an Instant Message wanttyc@yahoo.com
D#rae‬ B#cra‬lays Me#rebm‬,

T#sih‬ e#liam‬ was se#tn‬ by the Ba#cr‬lays se#evr‬r to ve#ir‬fy y#ruo‬ e#liam‬ ad#rd‬ess. You m#su‬t comp#etel‬ t#ih‬s p#ecor‬ss by c#gnikcil‬
on the l#kni‬ be#wol‬ and ente#gnir‬ in the s#am‬ll wi#wodn‬ y#ruo‬ B#alcra‬ys M#hsrebme‬ip num#eb‬r, p#edocssa‬ and me#rom‬able w#ro‬d.
T#sih‬ is do#en‬ for y#uo‬r p#tcetor‬ion - beca#su‬e so#em‬ of our m#bme‬ers no lon#eg‬r h#eva‬ ac#ec‬ss to t#rieh‬ e#liam‬ ad#serd‬ses and
we mu#ts‬ ve#yfir‬ it. To veri#yf‬ yo#ru‬ e#am‬il add#sser‬ and ac#ec‬ss yo#ru‬ b#na‬k ac#tnuoc‬ , c#kc


The translation? I got all the words except for two.

Dear Barclays Member,

This email was sent by the Barclays server to verify your email address.
You must complete this process by clicking on the link below and entering in the small ?????? your Barclays Membership number, ???????? and memorable word. This is done
for your protection -- because some of our members no longer have access to their email
addresses and we must verify it. To verify your email address and access your bank
account, click on the link below.

I don't know about you guys, but two things are retarded by this spam mail:

1) I'm required to translate it. Why the heck would any normal customer want to deal with that?

2) It's bypassing spam filters, making anybody who does see and understand the email want to shoot these guys.

[Homer43]

the first word looks like window to me

[mattz1010]

the first word looks like window to me

ye-..wait, what?

I have no idea what that means.

[ODDDLY]

Wow, that is ridiculous. That is actually very funny.

[mattz1010]

Well, yeah, what do you think it is, INTELLIGENT spam?

Ignorant masses. :P

[The Brown Cow]

"window" and "passcode", I do believe.

Stupid spammers. It doesn't help it pass for a real email. People will probably still fall for it though.

[crusty]

I've recieved a few of those myself, though I don't even deal with spam anymore, thanks to Gmail.

:)

[mattz1010]

ah, now i see what you mean, i guess i just read it wrong..
yeah, you only have to look at the old one, then the revised version...
Wow

[Sperry]

It's a bit ironic, most of the emails I get are from xgen. And they all get through the filter. Turned off the box ages ago and I still get them on occasion. I haven't checked my mail in.... 2 months (other than of course checking if they stopped. Which they don't)...

[ManUpstairs]

I get about 100 spams in my gmail account every two days. It's all filtered, so I don't really care.

And snowman, you know you can change an option in your profile so that it doesn't notify you of replies. Plus, if you have gmail, just create a new label, and a filter for that label.

[zippydaspinhead]

i get those all the time from some german dude who doesn't want them in his email so he types a "fictional" email and it just so happens to be mine, or at least thats my guess, but i get them every now and then.

[JoeyG]

I have a hotmail account for containing spams.

You click 'unregister' on the GMail spams and type in an incorrect address.

[Sperry]

And snowman, you know you can change an option in your profile so that it doesn't notify you of replies.I still get them, and I turned it off in late January.

[zippydaspinhead]

If you turn off the option for all of them then the idividuals you had selected before you turned the option on would still send you e-mails. If you can track down thoses topics and turn it off for them you should be fine. This is however, my best guess.