On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:33:19 +
Zinski, Steve wrote:
> I’m seriously thinking about doing the same (block all emails that
> contain a bitcoin address).
Effectively you already have. A legitimate email with a bitcoin address
will almost certainly contain either 'btc' or 'bitcoin' and your rule
I’m seriously thinking about doing the same (block all emails that contain a
bitcoin address). I’ve had good luck with my custom rule that also tests for
Unicode obfuscation:
body__BTC1 /\b[13][a-km-zA-HJ-NP-Z1-9]{25,34}\b/
body__BTC2 /\b\W*b\W*i\W*t\W*c\W*o\W*i\W*n\W*\
However, I think the BITCOIN_PAY_ME rule need a bit of fine tuning, to
catch other emails. Like the one below, which escaped triggering the
rule. A constant battle between spam rules, and bad English grammar.
Maybe I should say the hell with it, and simply block any email sent to
me, with a