A brief history in the ongoing battle between spammers and system administrators, from my point of view at least;
Spammers > send mail with similar subjects & content
Sysads > Start filtering e-mail based on content, looking for key words like ‘viagra’, ‘cialis’, ‘penis enlargement’, ‘breast enlargement’, ‘make money fast’ etc.
Spammers > Find a million different ways to spell V1agr-a
Sysads > Start searching mail for real content in the e-mail and give it a weighted score, so if it looks like it’s a real message let it through, even if it has the word viagra in it.
Spammers > Start including full sentances, hidden to the normal viewer. These sentances are repetitive and strange, where do they get this stuff?
I wonder ‘did someone at the spam company write these? or did they scan in some bad book and just cut it to pieces to insert random sentances into their spam cannon?’
I am seeing these ALL the time now. Below are some actual excerpts from spam I received this morning:
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