Litpam 1.006

Got two today, amazingly inconsistent I know!

Here is the first bit of the first:

“Objects of the senses residing within the bodies in pain
or terror. The regent was calling me in.”

No front page ‘the archive’ results for this one. I did search site:http://thearchive.org/ after and it did come up with some plausible matches. So this one could have been just heavily randomized. But this is the result with the most keywords showing up: THE HEPTAMERON

Here is the main ‘body’ paragraph:

“Something unintelligible that sounded like muchtaravik! To
other trees of incomparable appearance. And lords of earth,
said,’i do not see the end of and selling and herding. It
was a painful story, under his hand, and leaning his weight
against from being, as commonly happens in great churches,
would be able in time to possess itself of the ten years
it is simply glorious to hear you raving la’ship seesthis
is merely a scratch of my pencilyour if you’re out of it.
bourne has always been a end of which he unwittingly trusted
within her you aren’t too tired, sit here and help me for.”

Definitely one of the funnier ones. But more interestingly that last line doesn’t show up from an archive of a text but rather something of a blog: Stephen Bourne

This shows that it is clearly possible that there is indeed a bot  that indexes not only texts from places like archive.org.

Litpam 1.005

Got a new one today, a bit more dumb I think.

Have to stand any of it, dear rhoda. You are a nor the motor.
what then! Said kathleen with a.

“You are nor the motor” probably the best badly jumbled line so far. From our handy google search I get two texts that seem to cover all the words there:

The Circus Comes to Town / Mitchell, Lebbeus, 1879-1963
and
Full text of “What Katy did”

I did a search of the archive’s texts and found that the first link also appears there: Full text of “The Circus Comes to Town” That means that the archive is still appearing to be the prime source of spam literature generator.

Here is the rest of the email:

Will be valiant, and beat some dozen of these night she did
him a good turn by trampling out over the lounge. It was
empty. Her candle was said that if he died unmarried he
would like to on a gem, yet you please yourself whether
you he a churchgoer at all, but he listened attentively
bisket bread, and serve it in a dish, stick wafers night,
when all around lay buried in deep sleep, the author to
the editor of the quarterly journal poirot abstracted his
mind from timothy. Had anything own way he began lessons.
the cure took him in trifles i saw or heard then were full
of deep.

It seems that this entire element came from two texts as well, this time both are on archive.org But I did notice that other book hosts also show up below for most of the searches. That could just mean that the archive is not really the main source of these texts but the generator could be using any of the other sites. Never the less here are the archive texts:

Full text of “The poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich in two volumes”
and
Full text of “Ballads: romantic, fantastical, and humorous. Illustrated by John Gilbert”

Some interesting conclusions from this one, but otherwise nothing definitive.

Litpam 1.004

A new one today.

“Care for thee! Indeed weakness or distress shall along with
his followers. Thus shall i glorify.”

Once again, courtesy of archive.org: Unseen Realities

Here is the google jumble for it:

“What gain in loss I find, Living for others living thus for Thee ! …. brighter garb With THEE beside my couch ; and so my song Of praise in weakness now …. My heart was burdened sore, I could not speak, But came in my distress to Jesu’s feet. ….. He will silently PLAN for thee, His purposes shall all unfold, …”

I am still a tadd set back by the formatting on each of those pages. Could it be that they scan for simmillar code to make searches easier? No idea. But here is the rest of the passage.

“And other men, as also myself with my son, are the years
to come it may still please the eye from one till half past
six. Sometimes the girls to his devotees for protecting
151. Vide the story of sentiment struck amidst the careless
joy of soil but not begotten by the owner, o chief of were
quite unlike. There was one man whose fashion to the revels.
without seeing it, i could not back his decrepitude. And
his son puru received thomas morris, a candidate for the
vicepresidency and noote, that a towne, whiche hathe the
ditches there to get rid of the small she no longer looked.”

Pasting the entire passage I end up getting these two archive.org pieces here:

MEN AND THINGS OF MY TIME
PROFESSOR BLACKIE

This just secures the theory of where these passages are being generated from. But that “Professor Blackie” story lacks the weird formatting of some of the earlier items. So I would imagine that that theory is out the window. But that also means that they just take these texts and randomize it. I actually now doubt that they even use a bot to scan it, but rather just copy and paste it into a document from which they generate these passages.

Litpam 1.003

This one is not too exciting it seems:

“Believe fora min ute that,you meant to kill hi. In question
had had several boyfriends who had.”

Standard intro, this one is a lot more jumbled, and some words are not added correctly. Nothing besides boyfriend troubles seems to pop up about it, not that something was expected.

The next bit is a tad simmilar, and if taken literally the end is quite humorous.

“Having passed through the necessary preparatory myself upon
him(here he pauses to rub his leg)the the abbe began to
feel a little fatigued in his way. As in a mirror i see
reflected in your mind grandson. But he’s a galant homme
and a gentleman, his way delicately round the dancing floor
on possible with that party whose cardinal idea was or khartoum.
neither place nor distance had interest with both hands,
and the pallor of a ghastly fear but the color sergeant
was dead, and the corpse she did not at all understand that
he, in his grandfather, as an indian prisoner, had to run.”

It seems that we have another ‘the archive’ entry on our hands.

Quoting our dear friend google:

“A gentleman had met him on the way, and took part in his perils, a Mr. Graham, …… Taught by experience of his party’s agents neither to trust nor to be …… But Mackinnon’s maid demurred to washing his feet and legs ; ‘ He’s but a ….. 2 The Cardinal’s idea was quite intoler- 1 A portrait, said to be that of …”

This is twice now that a transcript from the archive has been used to spam. It would be a logical conclusion that this is how the spam is being generated. Instead of Internet wide random passage generation they could be using a network like this.

As a note, for all of these, it seems that whatever the generation software is it is used not only in email spam but also in good old forum/blog spam.

What this ‘unique’ blog is about.

Well recently one of my mail accounts has been trashed with spam. You know, the annoying ‘Viagra adds’ and the ‘X# of best ways to pppleaazze uuur luvver’ But the interesting thing that I have seen for a while now but never really paid any attention to is the, what I call, ’spam literature’ [and lovingly named, Litpam.]

Pretty much, to make the message look like not spam they use excerpts from different pieces of literature. And jumble them into sometimes hilarious, but mostly incomprehensible sentences.

So to make the short story short, whenever I get another spam message on that particular account, I will share the little snippet of stupidity with you.

I will also try [and mostly fail] to find where some of the bits came from.

Hope you don’t bother reading this.

Litpam 1.002

Well this one is quite simmilar to the last:

Starts off with the general ‘intro’:

Hold up your hands, samson shouted as he covered and peacocks having iron beaks. Returning thence.

Now, it seems its a jumble mostly originating from this [rather strange if you ask me] childrens? book

If searched, most of the terms in the above sentence appear in parts of the story. Quoting google:

He took the reins to hold back his horses in his left hand. Then he put the iron inlaid breast-plate on his horses, so that they were covered from forehead … that three birds came unto us having three sups of honey in their beaks, …… It is Milton himself who speaks when he makes Samson exclaim:– “O loss of …

This strongly points to the possibility of all these messages being created by a simple bot that scans and then jumbles texts. But they still remain from larger works, and not just random Internet speak. So the possibility of a rather advanced bot is quite clear.

Anyway, then follows the generic link, and of course the larger paragraph:

Met. A, 2. Many editors from lamb. To halm and that like
us range through different worlds in waiting at the door
and drove away with a wild purpose of holding the relics
of regnobert, in mentioned. +philosophe scribere: the mss.
all earth to grow, after the same manner the vedas, the
foetus there for many long years. After a day out the passengers
were called together in did bayeux suffer any diminution
of its honors, helping it with air from the lungs for keeping
situation has changed since yesterday. I don’t chance. You
should be sabine shrugged her shoulders.

This one is quite a tough one, or I should probably say ‘more random than usual’. But I did weed out some more stuff:

Philosophe is just a French word for philosopher, the plus seems to be meaningless. But it does signify a slight anomaly.

The mention of Ragnobert did bring up only 3 results, with one actually relating to anything. A summer amongst the Bocages and the vines

That archive page itself is rather strangely formated.

In fact most of the passage is coming from that text. A rather dull read, on which I did not embark on.

Litpam 1.001

This one was rather intriguing, started with a neat little opening of:

“Ordained to go to hell, they sink in the order serve him
in every respect with watchfulness..”

Google has failed me in regards of finding where this ‘lovely’ little passage came from. If you find out, give me a shout.

Anyway, it continued with the usual useless link, but after came the larger segment:

“Cut into the mountainside for a level foundation, to mac’s
particular cast of mind, that he was is the matter with
you? Has anything gone wrong with rage. And possessed by
anger, the puissant France, and Ireland (which title he
had assumed in with Mohawk wampum, and some were partly
clothed and represents their acts in other situations, vows.
and narada, beholding the fortunate yudhisthira’s studied
the Vedas with close attention and subjugated treason! 1.
run forth and call. Exit gent. 2. On a road, so has a person
destitute of knowledge abode of yama. Beholding on that
occasion the.”

Rather strange one to say the least, from what I see on google these particular keywords seem to be randomized in most forum spam messages. I was trying to target the obvious names, but currently am only coming up with page after page of spam itself.

but I did find where some of the passages and names came from:  Mahābhārata

Quoting Wiki:

“The Mahābhārata (Devanāgarī: महाभारत) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa. The epic is part of the Hindu itihāsa (literally “history”), and forms an important part of Hindu mythology.”

Seeing that this passage contained an entire sentence out of that script I can assume two things: It was scanned using a bot over the Internet, or it is one of a few scripts used to create these jumbled phrases.