On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
On 20.08.20 09:13, Loren Wilton wrote:
I've started receiving a bunch of spam or more likely phish mails that
contain the following sort of trash in large quantities between almost
every word of the visible text. The invisible font rules don't seem to
catch this.
<span style=3D"font-size: 0vw;">lzdtec</span>
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
I have noticed those some time ago.
I wonder what's the point of sending such mail.
On 21.08.20 09:21, John Hardin wrote:
It's an attempt to obstruct spam detection via naïve text matching in the
raw HTML. It has no effect (beyond being a fairly good spam indicator) if
the text is rendered before being scanned.
that would make sense if it contained any non-dummy text
The goal is to break up the words so they can't be recognized by a naïve
scan. If you do that with real words you risk those words being recognized
by the scan. That's why the word obfuscation uses gibberish.
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