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Spam Busters
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New SPAM Technique? |
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2003-04-24 07:17:33 |
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DerekVadala
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Response to: New SPAM Technique?
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I was giving a talk on securing email transports yesterday and this occurred to me right in the middle of it. I'm guessing that if a spammer simply attached a reasonably sized JPEG to an email and perhaps included a minimum of unremarkable text, that it would be difficult to catch spam of this nature. In fact, I've noticed that a lot of porn-related spam is of this very nature, and Spam Assassin almost never tags it.
Perhaps something like:
Image attached.
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