Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-19 Thread Rupert Gallagher
Yes, if you are European, and might get some money as compensation. On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 04:19, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: > Gents, > > I somehow became subscribed to a list, political in nature, in whose mail I > have no interest. This is a legitimate AFAIK, US organization. > > Thus far,

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-19 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 11/18/2018 10:19 PM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: > So, is there some "authority" to which I can report these a**holes? that > might have an effect? I would say some blacklists might be interested.  I certainly list emails based on consent. 

Re: : 9D character used in words to avoid detection

2018-11-19 Thread John Hardin
-printable patterns. Plugin maybe? Has this already been done and I've missed it? It's there, but performing poorly: https://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/20181119-r1846888-n/__UNICODE_OBFU_ZW/detail This tactic seem to be limited right now, to a few (one?) spammer, who is presently using it in their porn

Re: : 9D character used in words to avoid detection

2018-11-19 Thread Bill Cole
On 19 Nov 2018, at 15:38, Joseph Brennan wrote: Example: Obvi=9Do=9Dusly yo=9Du=9D ca=9Dn can cha=9Dnge=9D i=9Dt In windows-1256, the presence of =9D between characters under decimal-128 is suspicious, regardless of Bitcoin. It seems like a simple rule but even rawbody does not check

Re: : 9D character used in words to avoid detection

2018-11-19 Thread Joseph Brennan
Example: Obvi=9Do=9Dusly yo=9Du=9D ca=9Dn can cha=9Dnge=9D i=9Dt In windows-1256, the presence of =9D between characters under decimal-128 is suspicious, regardless of Bitcoin. It seems like a simple rule but even rawbody does not check quoted-printable patterns. Plugin maybe? Has this already

Re:: 9D character used in words to avoid detection

2018-11-19 Thread Mark London
On 11/19/2018 10:35 AM, users-digest-h...@spamassassin.apache.org wrote: I ran it as-is, and it scored poorly. After I manually de-borked the headers, and retested, it hit SA's "OBFU_BITCOIN" and my own anti-bitcoin/sextortion & hi-Ascii-count tests. OBFU_BITCOIN was hit because the =9D

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-19 Thread Pedro David Marco
In Europe according to GDPR that would probably lead to an epic fine On Monday, November 19, 2018, 4:35:56 PM GMT+1, Bill Cole wrote: >Short answer: No. > >Political and charitable entities are not governed by the main anti-spam >law in the US (known as "CAN-SPAM") on the theory

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-19 Thread Bill Cole
On 18 Nov 2018, at 22:19, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: Gents, I somehow became subscribed to a list, political in nature, in whose mail I have no interest. This is a legitimate AFAIK, US organization. Thus far, several uses of their unsubscribe link had not provided relief. Direct email to the

Re: Macros now replaced by XML

2018-11-19 Thread Giovanni Bechis
On 11/16/18 7:11 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > It seems spammers are now using XML Word documents instead of ones > containing macro viruses. Virtually no antivirus scanners are catching > this now. > > These are hacked Outlook accounts sending virus/phish attachments. > >