[pchelpers] Re: Gibberish body in email

  • From: "John Bird" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:02:33 +1300

My guess it is a spammers technique.

Anti spam programs look among other things for a large number of identical
emails.  Hence some started to apeend nonsense random characters on the end
to foil this.  I guess anti spam programs then started to look for lots of
nonsense words, so it looks like the spammers have graduated to inserting
random dictionary words now.

John Bird
john@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Beyond Data Systems/Acclipse Legal
Ph 962-7375
Po Box 2869
Christchurch
 



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