Wednesday, January 29, 2014

“I’m learning Korean literature” = the key to safe spamming?^^

Literature SpamNow this is just weird…. Korean literature is being used as a way to sneak spam onto the Internet (normally in user ID pages), for things as varied as



I spend a lot of time searching around the Internet for interesting bits of information to share with my readers here at KTLIT, and recently a lot of my searches have turned up the phrase:


I’m learning Korean literature at a local university and I’m just about to  graduate.



It occurred to me to run a general search for this phrase and it turns out it is a phrase that spammers use to avoid detection by anti-spam programs.. That’s right 182,000 results, as far as I can tell 99% of them spam.


Who would have thought it?


Korean literature as a spam protector


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