Spam is getting to smart, filters/rules cannot catch it

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John. J

I'm getting swamped with annoying spam lately, and while I keep creating new
rules and filter, Outlook 2003 is not able to catch the spam.

I'm specificly talking about the spam, which looks the same in the first
place, but uses a 'scramble word' technique, so people cannot check on the
contents. Here's an example of body texts I'm talking about (these come from
different mails):

Genierc and Sepur Viarga (Caiils) available online!
Geinerc and Sepru Vigara (Ciails) availabel onilne!

Since the subject and sender are also random, it's impossible to create a
rule.

Any ideas how to catch these?
 
Setting your spamfilter to high should definitely catch this. Don't create
rules for spam as they are handled first in most cases.

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Outlook 2003's spamfiler is set to HIGH, as well as my local ISP inbox
protection, still I'm getting hundreds of these.

So Outlook, nor my ISP can catch these with the highest security settings
due to the complete random nonsense that those emails contain.
 
This spam is also troubling me. I am using Outlook 2000. Since a month
or so this spam is trickling through my filtering more and more every
day.

Always has the word "Viarga" in it. Something like: Genierc Viagrand
Sepur Viarga (Caiils) available onlnie! Most trsuted onilne source!

It looks like plain text coming in but the rules don't catch it,
neither does the providers spam filter nor my SpamAssassin Pro filter.

Help needed....

Frank Grassens
 
Forget the filters, they are (as you can see) a waste of
time, get a third party piece of software called mailwasher
it allows you to view the mail while still on your server
and mark for deletion those you don't want to download.
a word of caution, DO NOT use the bounce feature, most
spam are faked headers, so no point in bouncing to someone
who never sent it in the first place..

I have used mailwasher for a year, and it has knocked my
spam count from 50-100 daily to 5-10 daily..the great
thing is this, you can examine the mail without activating
html or vb script to tell the sender you have opened it...
 
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