Showing posts with label SEND. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SEND. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Some random words here.
I don't know if this is laziness or ingenuity on the part of the spammers, but this one got past three levels of spam filters this morning:
Monday, February 25, 2008
SEND 02-25
So I still haven't been getting any funny random names in the spam, but I did get two emails from Gene Austin this morning, trying to sell me Rolex watches at a fraction of the price.
Besides the fact that Gene has been dead for over 25 years, I'm trying to figure out why the spam filters on my email server and in Outlook only caught one of the two messages. Everything about them - from the text to addresses to the header information - was identical. The only difference is that one got tagged as spam at the server level and the other didn't get caught until it ended up in Outlook's junk mail folder.
Interesting.
Besides the fact that Gene has been dead for over 25 years, I'm trying to figure out why the spam filters on my email server and in Outlook only caught one of the two messages. Everything about them - from the text to addresses to the header information - was identical. The only difference is that one got tagged as spam at the server level and the other didn't get caught until it ended up in Outlook's junk mail folder.
Interesting.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Issues With SEND
Just when it was really getting entertaining, the spammers have changed their tactics again, and I've no longer been receiving good names in email. What they are doing now, it seems, is making only slight modifications - I've received emails from names along the lines of "John P. Smith" and "John Q. Smith" in the same day.
What is really interesting is that my spam filters only seem to be catching about half of these, so Q will get through, while P is tagged as spam. So in part, at least, this tactic is working for them.
But it's not nearly as entertaining.
What is really interesting is that my spam filters only seem to be catching about half of these, so Q will get through, while P is tagged as spam. So in part, at least, this tactic is working for them.
But it's not nearly as entertaining.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
About the Spam Email Name of the Day (SEND)
Part of my IT duties for the company I work for is to filter the email to the catch-all email box mailto:'info@'and search for any real messages among the several hundred daily bits of spam. This is an annoying duty, but luckily isn't that burdensome - we receive only maybe 2 or 3 hundred messages a day and filtering them is only a few minutes work.
And it has an upside. Being interested in encryption and similar areas of programming, I love the random string generators spammers use to get past filters. Particularly the random words cobbled together to create the "FROM:" name. So here, in this category, I share a few of the names that I like the best.
And before anyone asks, yes, it says "Spam Email Name of The Day," but it probably won't be every day, because I have other things to do. It will probably be more like, "Here's today's name, I'll give you another when I see another really good one."
And it has an upside. Being interested in encryption and similar areas of programming, I love the random string generators spammers use to get past filters. Particularly the random words cobbled together to create the "FROM:" name. So here, in this category, I share a few of the names that I like the best.
And before anyone asks, yes, it says "Spam Email Name of The Day," but it probably won't be every day, because I have other things to do. It will probably be more like, "Here's today's name, I'll give you another when I see another really good one."
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