I get quite a bit of spam. Spamassassin catches about 40 pieces per day. I look at most of it, mostly to see what types I’m getting most today. Yesterdays totals were:
- Misc: 21
- Leads, 100 Time Dated..FREE! (Cheap pencil refils with best-before dates)
- Colon Cleanse (Cheap, Clean punctuation)
- Viri: 4
- Search Engines: 2
- 419: 1
- Unrenderable Subject Lines: 14
- False Positives: 1
- Porn: 4
- TIGHT VIRGIN TEENS ON CAM (Young employees of Richard Branson go punting)
- free amateur xxx (Cheap remake of Vin Diesel movie)
- Safe sex with a bored housewife (Be still my beating heart)
But my favourite one is this one:
You’re probably thinking to yourself, “Oh geez, not another
miracle diet pill!” Like you, I was
+skeptical at first, but
my sister swore it helped her lose 23 pounds in just four weeks,
so I told her I’d give it a shot. I mean, there was nothing
Because the code – which Mutt displayed, not being a HTML Mail reader – was like this:
You're proba<!--PPSOjQ-->bly thinking to yourself, "Oh geez, not another<BR> mira<!--PPSOjQ-->cle die<!--PPSOjQ-->t pill!" Like you, I was +ske<!--PPSOjQ-->ptical at first, but <BR> my sister swore it helped her lose 23 pounds in just four weeks, <BR> so I told her I'd give it a shot. I mean, there was nothing <BR>
Meaning that Spamassassin failed to catch it because it contained the words “miracle diet pill”, and was resorted to… lets see…
SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results ---------------------- SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future. SPAM: See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. SPAM: SPAM: Content analysis details: (15.9 hits, 5 required) SPAM: Hit! (2.4 points) 'Message-Id' was added by a relay (2) SPAM: Hit! (1.0 point) From: ends in numbers SPAM: Hit! (1.0 point) Subject: contains a question mark SPAM: Hit! (2.8 points) BODY: Offers a full refund SPAM: Hit! (1.9 points) BODY: Contains word 'guarantee' in all-caps SPAM: Hit! (1.5 points) BODY: Asks you to click below SPAM: Hit! (2.1 points) BODY: FONT Size +2 and up or 3 and up SPAM: Hit! (3.2 points) HTML-only mail, with no text version SPAM: SPAM: -------------------- End of SpamAssassin results ---------------------
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