dodgy emails

[apache]

Is anyone else getting these weird FT type emails? each one comes from a different email address and therefor impossible to block

"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>

</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<img alt="" src="[e-mail]"
height="387" width="558"><br>
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result of the incident. com for full links, other content, and more!<br>
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the high-end networking session of the tradeshow season aboard at yacht
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and more!<br>
Particularly interesting was the part where agents categorized the
Constitution and related educational paraphenilia pertaining to the.<br>
Omeed Aziz Popal was arrested as a result of the incident.<br>
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<br>
</body>
</html>"

[Tripps]

I see a lot like this, the embedded image is what contains the real content, something to sell you Viagra, softare or stocks.

The textual content is designed to slip past spam filters by having some text that looks OK.

Edited by Tripps on Tuesday 10th October 18:00

[apache]

yeah, that was the embedded image, how do you stop the bloody things?

[Ballistic Banana]

Yeah I get them nbloody embedded images aswell, just use the junk filter which picks up some in Mozilla.

BB

[__LEE__]

Is this a home machine? what spam filtering do you have?

If you have some sort of content filter you should be able to block the emails by adding the text (if it stays the same) to the filter.

[thepassenger]

The problem with these spams is that they're specifically designed to get past most filtering solutions, the phrases used are utterly random snippets each time, the only common thing being the .gif or .jpg that contains the advert.

SpamByes? Might be able to learn to cope with them though, Thunderbirds in built spam catcher takes a while to train but catches 9 outta 10 of them and if you run your own mailserver SpamAssassin and Rules De Joure seems to belt the buggers on the head.

[apache]

All true, but what I don't get is there's nothing in the content to suggest they are selling something, it's like stocks and shares, which makes little sense to me anyway

[Scraggles]

mails from people i not know = spam and most can be trashed without looking at them

[thepassenger]

apache said:

All true, but what I don't get is there's nothing in the content to suggest they are selling something, it's like stocks and shares, which makes little sense to me anyway

Ok. Basically the idea of the stocks thing is to generate interest in the stock with the day traders. They buy the stock driving up the price per share which makes the company more valuable. Then you (the spammer, person who paid for the spam, etc) sell all of your stock at the inflated price making lots of money... which again deflates the price leaving the day traders holding worthless/delisted stock.

If your quick you can ride the stock and dump it just before they do however most people don't micromanage their portfolio that closely and thus get burned... not that you care as you've made your money and are already buying up stock of another company to repeat.