Fraud spam text in .doc attachments

2008-05-16 Thread Andrew Hearn
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

2008-05-16 Thread Loren Wilton
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

Re: Fraud spam text in .doc attachments

2008-05-16 Thread John Hardin
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 KA7OHZ

Re: Fraud spam text in .doc attachments

2008-05-16 Thread Benny Pedersen
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