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As spam filters get more sophisticated, spammers seem to be developing their own increasingly sophisticated tricks to fool the filters. Some subject lines simply won't get through, so you see things like "Subject: R.E.F.I.N.A.N.C.E. yr m#e#m#b#e#r qxaeria" in which the most spammish terms are obscured and some random gibberish inserted to mimic the appearance of legitimate email.

Now, of late, I've been seeing actual grammatical English text in place of the gibberish now and then. Thus:

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Which, of course, raises the question: where are they getting these passages for their spam-steganograph? Thanks to Google, now we know.

The bit above, for example, is from The Story of Tangalimlibo, which is apparently a Xhosa folktale. I hadn't realized that the Xhosa were so into cyber-hucksterism. But have a look at this next one:

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exultingly while man slew
with more fitness than to him who had given me life?
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though distributed into distinct and mutually independent States,

Leaving aside the obvious pharmaceutical pitches, the fragments in this one, in order, are from:

Let's hear it for the public domain, eh?