fake ASDA spam

David Lee t.d.lee at durham.ac.uk
Mon Oct 15 16:58:09 IST 2007


(This might be a UK-only spam.)

Some of our users are getting lots of instances of a new spam allegedly
offering money off for shopping at ASDA.  The spam seems to have little
content for Bayes to get its teeth into reliably; the linked URLs seem to
change; the set of machines from which it arrives changes.  So although it
gets an SA spam score (DCC, RAZOR2) there is insufficient evidence for a
secure conviction, so it gets through and annoys our users.

Has anyone (probably in the UK) seen this and been able to come up with a
means (SA rules?) of detecting its characteristics, whilst avoiding false
positives?

Thanks.

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