3822 63748 90678 64826 109067 058 09405 09 40 53 26 90 86 30 94 05 38 47 07 10985 11 34 53 84059 76 96534 961179 64 23 36 64 57 63 53 22 42 52 12659 82391 26911 126422 75 2307 8174775(This is an impression; the actual digits and the represented text were changed.)
What could this be? Is it some online version of graffiti tagging, calculated to be as obnoxiously intrusive as the real-world equivalent? Secret al-Qaeda messages to sleeper agents? A brand-building campaign for some product? Or something else altogether?
Yep, that's the one. Which looks like a tag to me; though, given that Tora was a WW2 Japanese kamikaze battlecry, the idea of it being a triggger for suicide operations does occur.
I got the TORA mail too, but it followed a pump-and-dump spam for some stock called TORA.<something>- I presume someone decided to see if this ascii art might work to help, and would bypass spam filters...
I've been noticing spam that has no link in it -- unless there was some hidden h@xpl01t targetted at Outlook in it, the spam serves no purpose except (when not caught by my spam filter) increasing brand awareness...
Got one too. It said "Tora.08" in numbers.