Hi,

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 5:15 PM David Jones <djo...@ena.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/11/18 3:30 PM, Alex wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm curious what people think of this:
> >
> > https://pastebin.com/1XjwaCY1
> >
> > It's unsolicited, so that makes it spam to me, but is it dangerous?
> > yesinsights.com appears to be a legitimate company, but the sender,
> > e...@hrteamerus.com, is a registered domain but has no DNS record.
> >
> > Is it just a lame attempt to confirm email addresses?
> >
> > Outlook just seems to be a non-stop source of spam. I'd report it to
> > yesinsights, but it appears it's being used exactly as the service
> > intended?
> >
> > Any idea on tips to block it, other than bayes?
> >
>
> Is that the entire email in the pastebin link above?  I ran it through
> my SA platform and it's missing a few headers.
>
>         DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED,ENA_NO_TO_CC,MISSING_DATE,MISSING_FROM,
>         MISSING_HEADERS,MISSING_MID,MISSING_SUBJECT

Yes, it's the complete email - those missing headers are in the
pastebin. It also passed DKIM. Send me a message if you want the
original.

> Since it doesn't have a valid opt-out, I would report it to SpamCop,
> report it to yesinsights.com's abuse if SpamCop doesn't already, and add
> a blacklist_from *@hrteamerus.com entry.

Yes, we've seen an increase in these types of emails. We've reported
it to spamcop, but there doesn't appear to be a way to communicate
abuse to yesinsights.

> If you start seeing patterns of repeating emails, then a local content
> rule and Bayes training would be the best option.  Maybe get these into
> the nightly masscheck so others can work on some rules to go into the
> default ruleset.

I'll see if I can get this submitted.

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