Talinom's Journal: Obfuscated spam.

I received a piece of spam today. Normally I don't look at it, however every once in a while I am intrigued.

The first and most important lesson one must learn in advertising, and that is what spam is supposed to be, is that one must effectively communicate to their audience what they are selling.

I have no damn idea even what this is:

X-Message-Status: n:0
X-SID-PRA: =?koi8-r?Q?=53ubscribe.=52u=20=F0=CF=DE=D4=CF=D7=D9=CA=20?= =?koi8-r?Q?=D2=CF=C2=CF=D4=20?= =?koi8-r?Q?=D0=CF=C4=D0=C9=D3=DE=C9=CB=CF=D7?=
X-SID-Result: Pass
X-Message-Info: LsUYwwHHNt3ON5dzndOh9jqA23LyU0NFrjfq/V6jlWo=
Received: from cat158.subscribe.ru ([81.9.34.158]) by bay0-mc11-f5.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2444);
Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:11:49 -0800
Received: id 044BFD470; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:10:06 +0300 (MSK)
Received: from localhost by localhost; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:10:06 +0300
List-Id:
List-Help:
List-Subscribe:
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List-Archive: NO
List-Owner:
List-Post: NO
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Precedence: special-delivery
Comments: Subscribe.Ru/Citycat Information Channel. http://Subscribe.Ru/
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To: "[e-mail]" ()
Subject: =?koi8-r?Q?=52e:=20=CD=E0=F8=E8=20=E5-=EC=E5=E9=EB=20?=
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MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Language: ru
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:10:06 +0300 (MSK)
Return-Path: [e-mail]
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2006 17:11:50.0400 (UTC) FILETIME=[7D231800:01C6FC46]

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Better targeting would help

[ncc74656]

I have no damn idea even what this is:

That's what Russian looks like in an MUA that doesn't grok Unicode.

Re:

[Timex]

That's what Russian looks like in an MUA that doesn't grok Unicode.

Yeah, but if Talinom doesn't read Russian, does it matter?

Not to us, but...

[Degrees]

Someone got to bill their client for a message delivered....

Re:

[leoPetr]

I get Spanish, Chinese, and Korean spam. I think that Russian would actually be an improvement in my case.^-^

Re:

[Talinom]

I think that Hotmail borked it real bad. I couldn't read it in Mozilla or IE.