Re: "FOUND" SPAM-LANG: uu sdields dhqu eeix rnrj

On 5 Oct 2003 at 20:15, J Y S Czhang wrote:

> Do<crater>n't wa<ephemeral>ste yo<compendium>ur
> mo<enid>ney</monies></crunch></clasp></whirlpool>
Apart from the fact that that might become my new sig, this is a
fairly ingenious way to get around anti-spam filtering software,
which normally checks for certain combinations of certain words.

The bogus HTML tags break the words into pieces that a naïve
text analysis tool couldn't recognise. In an HTML-aware mail client
(and increasingly more mail clients are HTML-aware these days),
the bogus tags would be stripped out, leaving the human on the
wrong end of it with a fairly dubious offer for generic blue pills.

Kinda clever, really. I don't respect the intentions of spammers, but
sometimes I respect the lengths to which they'll go.



Paul