Learn About Spam

This is quite a typical spam, how someone can fall for this is beyond me. Why should anyone buy a watch from someone who does not even know how to spell? Notice also the last part of this spam, where some totally irrelevant text has been inserted in an attempt to fool anti spam software.

The bad spelling is probably another attempt to fool our anti spam software. The sender probably thinks we have a bayesian filter (which we do) and therefore tries to insert mis-spelled words. This, they think, will offset the bayesian algorithm enough to let the spam pass. That it didn’t could be because our bayesian is quite well trained, or it could be because that technique is failed to begin with. The bayesian fiters of today are smart enough not to be fooled by such simple spoofs.

Notice also the subject line that doesn’t even attempt to fool us. I seriously can’t remember the last time I sent an email with the subject line “tosha”. The big question is, does it mean anything in any language? Spam are so cheap to send that a subject line in a foreign language attracts enough people.

Subject: RE: tosha

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He was to leave Bath at nine this morning, and does not come back

There being nothing to eat, he could only have some play;

remained silent, not even a dewdrop lay like a tear of sympathy on her

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