**SPAM** in subject column

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Bill

Over the last few weeks an annoying thing has happened to my inbox. The
Following appears infront of an othe rwording in the subject column -
**SPAM**. Sometime the email concerned is spam, often it's not. I don't
know how **SPAM** has got there nor how to remove it. I use PC Tools
Internet Security and Malwarebytes but can't fnd anything in these apps that
could be the culprit. Is it something in Windows Mail itself or could it
be comeing from my ISP?

Regards,

Bill
 
Bill said:
Over the last few weeks an annoying thing has happened to my inbox. The
Following appears infront of an othe rwording in the subject column -
**SPAM**. Sometime the email concerned is spam, often it's not. I don't
know how **SPAM** has got there nor how to remove it. I use PC Tools
Internet Security and Malwarebytes but can't fnd anything in these apps
that could be the culprit. Is it something in Windows Mail itself or
could it be comeing from my ISP?

Regards,

Bill
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Definitely not WM.

My guess is your ISP spam filter.
 
Bill said:
Over the last few weeks an annoying thing has happened to my inbox. The
Following appears infront of an othe rwording in the subject column -
**SPAM**. Sometime the email concerned is spam, often it's not. I don't
know how **SPAM** has got there nor how to remove it. I use PC Tools
Internet Security and Malwarebytes but can't fnd anything in these apps
that could be the culprit. Is it something in Windows Mail itself or
could it be comeing from my ISP?

Regards,

Bill
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Could be from your ISP. Contact them to see. One of my ISPs can tag (if I
set it up) emails that seem to be SPAM with that tag onto the subject line.
 
While looking at the message, press Ctrl-F3, which will show the email
headers. That will show what the various email servers say to each other and
what they have to say to us if we look at them. When I did that for a
message I received with the subject "***SPAM*** hoist your darling sexual
times" the text below was in the headers. Note that it is saying that the
system "server2.30u.com", has identified this incoming email as possible
spam, and 30u.com is a large service that provides email services for many
ISPs and hosting services and other businesses and organizations.


X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.0
X-Spam-Score: 50
X-Spam-Bar: +++++
X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system
"server2.30u.com", has
identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message
has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label
similar future email. If you have any questions, see
the administrator of that system for details.
Content preview: hoist your darling sexual times with help of choiced
medicines.
salubrious effect guaranteed. not bad bonus for every sale review offer
http://{{{censored}}}/
hoist your darling sexual times with help of choiced medicines. [...]
Content analysis details: (4.9 points, 5.0 required)
pts rule name description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100%
[score: 1.0000]
1.4 HELO_DYNAMIC_DHCP Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (DHCP)
0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no
rDNS
X-Spam-Flag: YES
 
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