Question about spam.........someone must have an opinion or can help direct me....

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Brett Miller

Like everyone else, I get a lot of Spam on my computer. One that I
got recently had an add for cialis and a message that follows. It
looks like a randomly generated sentence. Can anyone tell me why they
would do that? Just curious. Any is it possible to track the assess
and cause them problems?
Thanks

BM


SPAMMER"S MESSAGE:
The day I slipped that weighted belly back on, I felt I was back in
uniform. The covers went one way and Inskipp went the other. There was
one smart one in the bunch. He had the same somber expression and
heavy foot that they all haveand the same lack of humor. I dont enjoy
the thought of putting this poor woman in jail, but if it is necessary
to the cause it must be done. I actually hummed a bit as I dropped the
ship out of warpdrive long enough to slip in a course tape chosen at
random from the file. Angelina tricked me and got away, Ill admit
that. Following my orders, the navigator again constructed a sphere of
speculation in his tank.
 
Can anyone tell me why they
would do that?
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It's called a 'hash buster'. It's one of multiple countermeasures used
to get around SPAM filters, by making each and every copy unique.

A_C
 
It's called a 'hash buster'. It's one of multiple countermeasures used
to get around SPAM filters, by making each and every copy unique.

A_C
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Not necessarily unique, but ordinary enough and without "hot" spam words to
tip off the spam filters. Some even go so far as to make the font very
small, and the color white so you would not even see it.

The ad for Cialis was probably a graphic, which isn't scanned at all.

BH
 
Not necessarily unique, but ordinary enough and without "hot" spam words to
tip off the spam filters. Some even go so far as to make the font very
small, and the color white so you would not even see it.

The ad for Cialis was probably a graphic, which isn't scanned at all.
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Thanks. You are exactly right about the graphic. And I have gotten
several email with nothing in them. But when I highlighted them to
delete them, I could see text - kind of freaked me out and made me
thing it was a virus or something.

What of this: A lot of the emails have a graphic ad or a listed www
site but when I try to go to the site it is dead. Or, the message
they send me ( obviously Spam by the name of the sender ) is blank.

And how can they send it to me when I have an address like:
(e-mail address removed) but in the TO: it has (e-mail address removed) or
something not even close to my name?

Thanks
BM
 
I have a somewhat dated .. but nicely effective ..
product called Form Fuc*er that I have used in the
past to teach the spammers a lesson if they
continued to harrass me. I don't know if this
is legal anymore, and I DID get a "cease and
desist" from a legal beagle for doing it. With
my little friend, I placed about 50,000 orders
to their web server until the relay servers
dropped. I asked ( politely ) if the relay guys
would stop "relaying" spam, but seems they
think it is funny. Now, I have 3 levels of filtering
.... Postini at ISP .. F-secure at work ... and
locally either F-secure or McAfee. I get maybe
3 spam emails a week ... those new ones that
act like rejected email. I still have FF if anybody
wants to play games with me.

johns
 
John,
I'd like to play.
Can you up the program somewhere?
I get about 40 spams per day.
 
You would be playing with the big boys, and they
are not funny. Good way to wind up in a court
room. Get a spam filter like McAfee. I think the
McAfee filter actually "filters" before it pulls the
stuff from the server onto your disk. If your ISP
offers Postini, that is also McAfee, and works
even better. That would give you 2 levels of
filtering, and put a stop to the scumbags.

johns
 
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