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Getting around the Spam Blockade
There are many techniques to beat spam blockers, and some are obvious, such as add non-spam content to a message as well a misspell words associated with their product, such as
- L0 se Weig ht now!
- Buy C1alis Ch3ap
- Refnance your mortgaqe today.
Here are some ex4mples that caught my eye.
Chase Manhattan must be busy …
I got an influx of these, all different, and all in the same morning.
I wonder if anyone is stupid enough to answer ALL of them.
“Gee, honey, there must be something wrong with my account. They sent me a bunch emails, and I don’t know why they all keep asking me for all my bank information. It must be different departments. I hope I helped them all straighten it out …”
And one of them goes to a web hosting company … I ‘warned them’ someone was using their system for phishing attacks. I wonder if I’ll get a response.
Account security informations !!
Informations??
Bank Phishing Scams
Plenty of these, but never from a bank I actually had an account with …
Clever eBay Phishing Scam
Subject: Message from eBay member
This was to make you think there is a question about something you are selling, or at least to make you question unauthorized use of your account.
eBay and PayPal Phishing Scams
These are one of the most common … I get them all the time.
Amazon.Com Phishing Scams
These come in spurts …
AOL Phishing Scams
I don’t get many of these, maybe because I don’t have an AOL email address …
Interactive Form Spam
I get a lot of spamming of this forum, interactive forms, and in particular guestbooks. It has gotten so bad that I have had to remove all guestbooks from my client’s sites. I will have to build a guestbook that screens by admin approval or by image recognition (human-only test, as most are automated bots).
Here are some examples.
Noteworthy Nigerian Scams Emails 2006
Here are a few that caught my eye as particularly clever, different, humorous, or interesting. You decide which are which.