On Thu, 08 May 2008 18:18:49 -0700, Blinky the Shark
<no.spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>John Dean wrote:
>
>> I'm using Mailwasher to ID spam on the server. Up to a few days ago, I
could
>> expect almost everything to show up as spam since a) most of it is and
b)
>> I've been using the program a while and it learns as it goes along.
>> But suddenly, most posts show up clean even though they are clearly
spam
>> (and I so mark them and the program then learns)
>> Has there been some major regrouping of spammers whereby they found a
whole
>> new approach to the activity?
>
>Personally, the only change I've seen in the last few days is that I'm
>getting 419s instead of the manhood increasement and online med spams.
>Most of them aren't getting by my filters; I'm talking about what I've
>been seeing shunted to my spam folder for re****ting. Total, after the
>server side filters have done their job, they've probably amounted to
>probably five a day for all (not each) of my various mailboxes.
Has anyone else been getting lots of people "from stickam" wanting you
to be their special friend? I assume that someone has created some
sort of an exploit that will infect your system if you click on the
link, but they are all using the same template, so the element of
surprise is gone.
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