Nuisance stock spams

2007-02-08 Thread Ramprasad
The stock spams are getting obfuscated to extreme lengths. 
   This mail went clean thru spamassassin. All it got hit were my custom
rules where I score mails containing companies mentioned in stock spam
( risky but no alternative ) 


Stock spams are a real nuisance , because the spammer just has to send
the message no tell tale links , no addresses , no phone numbers etc 

How do you folks tackle them 

This spam came from a clean machine , not listed in any BL's and went
straight thru 

http://ecm.netcore.co.in/spams/stock1.txt 

Thanks
Ram




Re: Nuisance stock spams

2007-02-08 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:46:31 +0530, Ramprasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>The stock spams are getting obfuscated to extreme lengths. 
>   This mail went clean thru spamassassin. All it got hit were my custom
>rules where I score mails containing companies mentioned in stock spam
>( risky but no alternative ) 
>
>
>Stock spams are a real nuisance , because the spammer just has to send
>the message no tell tale links , no addresses , no phone numbers etc 
>
>How do you folks tackle them 
>
>This spam came from a clean machine , not listed in any BL's and went
>straight thru 
>
>http://ecm.netcore.co.in/spams/stock1.txt 
>
>Thanks
>Ram
>

Do you use DCC? it's been pretty helpful here; that and training in
bayes.

Another possibility is that you were near the beginning of a spam run,
that can mean none of the RBL's are aware of it yet.

I agree, as will many others, they are a royal pain.

Kind regards

Nigel