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Here's an interesting item about spam
Most everyone has recieved an email like the following, even though you've got 10 different spam blockers running:
Hello,
Fast overnight shipping
Vicodin, Cialis, Viagra, Xanax
Free prescription always, no prior needed.
http :// www. whatever.com/1/
nicholas at moises or even lamont as in elouise.
dominga was at wanda when that happened sydney.
We met at stacia and went to ashley wher we had lunch at
karisa.It was maribeth and a nicholas was had randa by all.
Note the nonsense in the last paragraph. This is what I learned from another site.
"That particular mail is becoming more and more popular and is getting through many of the spam blockers for two reasons. One, because of what you question and what Shrapnill mentioned the legitimate text at the bottom fools the filters. Two, the offending words are not complete words to the filter. Spammers have now put the words in table cells with two or three letters per cell so the filters blow right by the word.
With the table cells border witdth set to one, the spam filter sees it like below. Just a bunch of two and three letter words that do not offend the filter. Of course in the actual spam letter the table borders are set to zero so the letter fit together a little better. I've tried just about every custom filter I can come up with and this spam technique seems to always get through. Right now, the only way I know of that effectively psuedo-blocks this is to turn of HTML capabilities in the email client. Maybe the industry has something better.. who knows."
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