Encode messages inside what appears to be spam!

Internet — Joe Anderson @ 4:26 pm Tuesday 7 August 2007

Dear Friend , Especially for you – this breath-taking news . If you are not interested in our publications and wish to be removed from our lists, simply do NOT respond and ignore this mail . This mail is being sent in compliance with Senate bill 1916 ; Title 7 ; Section 302 . THIS IS NOT MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING ! Why work for somebody else when you can become rich as few as 33 days . Have you ever noticed nearly every commercial on television has a .com on in it and people will do almost anything to avoid mailing their bills ! Well,
now is your chance to capitalize on this ! We will help you decrease perceived waiting time by 140% plus
deliver goods right to the customer’s doorstep . You are guaranteed to succeed because we take all the risk
. But don’t believe us . Ms Simpson who resides in Maine tried us and says “I’ve been poor and I’ve been
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and you’ll get a discount of 10% . God Bless !

Sounds like a typically poorly written piece of spam doesn’t it? Well be in for a shock! It isn’t. In fact, that piece of ’spam’ has a secret message in!

If you use this nifty encoder/decoder (secure link) you can find a hidden message inside it.

It’s a scary idea that the spam emails in your inbox could ultimately contain such things as terrorist messages – they’re likely fans of steganography – but still, tools like this are a good way to baffle friends!

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2 Comments »

  1. the message decoded to (Mv1Jm9H

    for me, but that must be a secret code too! :)

    that is crazy, though…

    Comment by Sarah — 8 August 2007 @ 12:12 am
  2. Oh poo! I must have made a mistake! I know what I did! I copied it in but I left massive gaps at the end of each line. Fixed it now :)

    Comment by Joe Anderson — 8 August 2007 @ 10:19 am

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