Junk mail with lots of short lines

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Tue Jan 3 16:08:41 GMT 2006


Have you got the full email (headers and everything) you can post to a web
site and I'll run it on my very comprehensive setup to see what fires..

--
Martin Hepworth 
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Stanier, Alan M
> Sent: 03 January 2006 16:02
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [MAILSCANNER] Junk mail with lots of short lines
> 
> My Boss is complaining of a large increase in untagged spam consisting
> mostly of short lines, such as the one below.
> 
> Looking at the text, I noticed that taking blocks of 9 lines and
> stringing them together, you get
> 
> Mereidia $9
> Levitra $9
> Etc
> 
> I am wondering if the text is that which remains after stripping out
> HTML that uses some trick with DIV or SPAM to construct whole words from
> the parts. Does that seem feasible?
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestion for how such spam could be caught?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Varlam Kuebler [mailto:varlame at huj.ch]
> Sent: 21 December 2005 14:17
> 
> 
> If the link does not work automatically, copy it into your browser -
> 
> www.chestain
> com
> 
> Me
> Lev
> Am
> Xa
> So
> ClA
> VlA
> Pro
> VA
> ridia
> itra
> bien
> nax
> ma
> LlS
> GRA
> pecia
> LlUM
>  $9
>  $9
>  $6
>  $1
>  $7
>  $9
>  $6
>  $6
>  $8
> 9.95
> 9.95
> 8.00
> 23.45
> 5.95
> 9.95
> 9.95
> 4.95
> 5.45
> 
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