new spam flood of broken messages

24 Mar 2004 15:00:32 -0000

Has anyone else been getting flooded with spam that is hardly readable because it almost looks like a malformed e-mail. They're coming from a endless number of domains and all start with a string of random characters like [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no subject and the e-mail body contains all the headers with a random single digit number at the top. Here is an example. As you can see the headers that are put in the body of the e-mail are different from the actual headers. No matter how much I seem to feed these to bayes-learn it doesn't seem to score them, probably because they're virtually unreadable. Also in their "fake" headers they have things like X-Virus-Status: Scanned by norton. We don't use norton here. Is this an attempt to fool some mail clients by faking headers? I'm using mozilla-mail.

From - Tue Mar 23 22:27:58 2004
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Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:20:58 -0500
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:19:26 +0500
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