[Wylug-discuss] Spammers getting smarter?

[James Holden (Wylug)]

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Evening all...

It seems that the spammers are getting smarter by the minute. I've
started to get emails where the positions of the letters within the word
are randomly moved around, so my spam filter fails to catch it.

eg:

STILL NO LUKC ENRGAILNG IT?

Our 2 pcodruts will work for you!

1. #1 Spupelment aavilable! - Works!
ETNER HERE

With their other tricks of scattering random punctuation or accented
characters, it seems that the actual message content is getting really
rather irrelevant, since it's effectively noise with just enough order
for humans to get the message.

Who's using auto-whitelisting, or some other system to beat the spam?
Does it work, or is it too much hassle?

James



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