Spammers turn to classic prose: The BBC has an article on the spam/literature phenomenon I mentioned the other day.
[…] as Clive Thompson points out, automatically generating text that reads like it was written by a human hand is difficult. This is perhaps why some spammers are turning to out-of-copyright novels for their text. It is an ideal source of real writing.It remains to be seen whether the filters are fooled by classic literature.
Looks like spammers are trying to fool Bayesian filters by diluting their text. I got a spam today with two lines at the top advertising "cash freedom" or something, and I noticed that the message scrolled quite a bit. After about a hundred line breaks, I found this: I…