[CLUE-Talk] Gibberish in spam messages

[G. Richard Raab]

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On 2003 March 22 Saturday 09:46 pm, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 21:27, Matt Gushee wrote:
...
> My guess, and it is only a guess, is that it is a tracking method for
> people who report spam. If you use a service like spamcop and report
> spam, I believe it sends the body of the e-mail to the abuse address --
> even if it obscures the e-mail address, that may be a clue as to what
> e-mail address the report came from...

Not quite. An approach to stopping spam is to look at the body and see if it 
is similar (RegEx is wonderful). if so, then block it. They are hoping that 
by inserting random text, that it can fool the blockers. There are other ways 
to still block them. 


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cheers
g.r.r.
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