>But here are some examples of spam titles I just received. > >>=?ISO-8859-1?b?QnV5IFNpbGRlbmFmaWwgQ2l0cmF0ZSAgQ2hlYXAgQW5kIERpc2NyZXQgLSB >>EZWxpdmVyeSBUbyBBbGwgQ291bnRyaWVz?
This looks like a malformed email. Not overly uncommon since many spammers write their own SMTP processing server, and they do it on the quick and dirty so email gets broken easily. >>mkbkzicbbqis > >>delphinhs coddingtnn zxsqtl fchqnsmvq >How could I ever set up mail actions that would filter titles like that, >and I get a lot like that? I have a filter for valium, but they will >misspell valium by one letter and slip by. It seems like the great >majority of my spam has a title that it would be very hard to anticipate. These are typical tricks to get past spam filters. Either alter the spelling of a key word, or use non sense subjects. Also, the non sense subjects can (and in many cases are) unique strings that ID your email address... that way, when you reply, they know who it was from, and mark that account as known good. And the conspiricist in me says that they also use that info to know who to flame when you forward the email to their ISP's abuse account (since some of the ISPs that spammers use are actually spammer friendly, and may very well share with them who complained). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
