Fraud spam text in .doc attachments
Hi, Any one else seen emails with word documents attached and the word document has text of an 'African fraud'? example: http://pastebin.com/mad34c97 I've not seen a Word Doc plugin for SpamAssassin, is there one? Thanks! -- Andrew Hearn
Re: Fraud spam text in .doc attachments
I seem to recall there was a rash of Word spams maybe a year or so ago, but it went away pretty quickly. Maybe someone is trying to revive the method. Since not everyone has a Word viewer the spam is self-limiting in how much of the target audience it can capture, so will probably die out again fairly soon. I have vague memories someone did something to parse Word and Excel attachments, but maybe I'm only dreaming about that. Loren
Re: Fraud spam text in .doc attachments
On Fri, 16 May 2008, Loren Wilton wrote: I have vague memories someone did something to parse Word and Excel attachments, but maybe I'm only dreaming about that. I suggested using antiword + pdf-to-image + OCR, but never did anything with the idea. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 --- A well educated Electorate, being necessary to the liberty of a free State, the Right of the People to Keep and Read Books shall not be infringed. --- 5 days until the 4th anniversary of SpaceshipOne winning the X-prize
Re: Fraud spam text in .doc attachments
On Fri, May 16, 2008 13:49, Andrew Hearn wrote: > Any one else seen emails with word documents attached and the word > document has text of an 'African fraud'? yes > example: http://pastebin.com/mad34c97 Download, but no url to download from > I've not seen a Word Doc plugin for SpamAssassin, is there one? could be added to fuzzyocr plugin, but attachmens is low here Benny Pedersen Need more webspace ? http://www.servage.net/?coupon=cust37098
