[ale] Strange spam

[James P. Kinney III]

The best part of this type of spam is it is designed to poison spam
filters. If this gets dropped into a Bayesian filter, it will start
marking legitimate email as spam based on the large collection of
not-spam words.

Yuck.

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 15:05, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Thursday 08 January 2004 02:56 pm, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > People have been asking about the strange spam.   I just got one which
> > shows:
> >
> > contest garrett attempt l's bridgehead beltsville flock
> > jittery prophetic dressmake mineral compose fledge inoperative erode
> > impenetrable
> > praiseworthy cheese applejack bausch level anaerobic avert dominican buteo
> > rheumatic
> >
> > But that is only in text mode.  There is an HTML part of it as well which
> > I've included below.  Conclusion--it's just another penis enlargement spam
> > trying to mask itself from spam killers by including lots of words that are
> > usually in spam.  Sneaky.
> 
> And I just received 3 more that all follow this pattern.  Different ads 
> (viagra, and a lotion, and something else similarly disgusting), but the same 
> methods.
> 
> I'm filtering with spamassassin and they are getting through.
> 
> Michael
> 
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