Comments for Why does so much spam have a part of some other email or document in it?

Comment from Ivan Goretoy on 2009-05-02

2009-05-03T04:16:31Z

I get MUCH, M-U-C-H more spam on my Yahoo account than I get on my hotmail account. Are there certain rules that you can use to get less spam? Like, "Don't use a yahoo account" likely being one.

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Comment from David on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T21:18:26Z

Talking of spam, I see my GMail spam box is getting bigger by the day. Used to be little more than about ten in there when I checked once a week but I`ve just deleted fifty four of the beasts in two days and one popped up before my very eyes! Anything to do with Conficker do you think?

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Comment from Dan on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T19:11:03Z

I've noticed a lot of spammers will deliberately insert spaces inside the key words. For example, "Viagra" becomes "Vi agra". Still readable, but the computer doesn't recognize it, so it goes through.

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Comment from Ken B on 2009-04-27

2009-04-27T19:21:27Z

Mark, that's a pretty clbuttic mistake made by filter writers. :-)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2667634/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-When-obscenity-filters-go-wrong.html

That link's broken (not sure where it should really go), so I'll offer this instead: clubuttic.

- Leo
28-Apr-2009

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Comment from Mark on 2009-04-27

2009-04-27T17:17:50Z

I once set a filter to block Cialis. It stopped an email with the word speCIALISt ;-) (capitalized for emphasis).

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