Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-24 Thread Loren Wilton
I've seen mail containing ONLY the text mentioned above, in which case it's strange. From the original mail I got feeling that the mails also contain mentioned text only... The original mails I clipped the original obfuscation text from were using it to hide a phishing attempt. I have not see

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 20.08.20 09:13, Loren Wilton wrote: I've started receiving a bunch of spam or more likely phish mails that contain the following sort of trash in large quantities between almost every word of the visible text. The invisible font rules don't seem to catch this. lzdtec On Fri, 21 Aug 2020

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-22 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, August 20, 2020 5:30 PM -0700 John Hardin wrote: Fix committed. Where will this show up? It will probably be published tonight. I just got one w

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, August 20, 2020 5:30 PM -0700 John Hardin wrote: Fix committed. Where will this show up? It will probably be published tonight. I just got one with this tag: Another: OK, it doesn

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, August 20, 2020 5:30 PM -0700 John Hardin wrote: Fix committed. Where will this show up? It will probably be published tonight. I just got one with this tag: Another: OK, it doesn't catch those. One more fix coming... -

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread Loren Wilton
The goal is to break up the words so they can't be recognized by a naïve scan. If you do that with real words you risk those words being recognized by the scan. That's why the word obfuscation uses gibberish. In the case of the trash I'm getting, the SA content preview renders it as: Content pr

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, August 20, 2020 5:30 PM -0700 John Hardin wrote: Fix committed. Where will this show up? I just got one with this tag: Another:

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread Rupert Gallagher
Original Message On Aug 20, 2020, 18:13, Loren Wilton < lwil...@earthlink.net> wrote: I've started receiving a bunch of spam or more likely phish mails that contain the following sort of trash in large quantities between almost every word of the visible text. The invisible font ru

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 20.08.20 09:13, Loren Wilton wrote: I've started receiving a bunch of spam or more likely phish mails that contain the following sort of trash in large quantities between almost every word of the visible text. The invisible font rules don't

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Riccardo Alfieri wrote: On 21/08/20 11:52, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I have noticed those some time ago. I wonder what's the point of sending such mail. Perhaps trying to fool the bayesians? I remember some spam emails that cyclically appear (mostly dating spam) tha

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 20.08.20 09:13, Loren Wilton wrote: I've started receiving a bunch of spam or more likely phish mails that contain the following sort of trash in large quantities between almost every word of the visible text. The invisible font rules don't seem to catch this. lzdtec On Fri, 21 Aug 202

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 20.08.20 09:13, Loren Wilton wrote: I've started receiving a bunch of spam or more likely phish mails that contain the following sort of trash in large quantities between almost every word of the visible text. The invisible font rules don't

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 21/08/20 11:52, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I have noticed those some time ago. I wonder what's the point of sending such mail. On 21.08.20 10:27, Riccardo Alfieri wrote: Perhaps trying to fool the bayesians? I remember some spam emails that cyclically appear (mostly dating spam) that hav

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread Riccardo Alfieri
On 21/08/20 11:52, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I have noticed those some time ago. I wonder what's the point of sending such mail. Perhaps trying to fool the bayesians? I remember some spam emails that cyclically appear (mostly dating spam) that have a lot of hidden text at the end of the

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 20.08.20 09:13, Loren Wilton wrote: I've started receiving a bunch of spam or more likely phish mails that contain the following sort of trash in large quantities between almost every word of the visible text. The invisible font rules don't seem to catch this. lzdtec I have noticed tho

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-20 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, Loren Wilton wrote: I've started receiving a bunch of spam or more likely phish mails that contain the following sort of trash in large quantities between almost every word of the visible text. The invisible font rules don't seem to

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-20 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, Loren Wilton wrote: I've started receiving a bunch of spam or more likely phish mails that contain the following sort of trash in large quantities between almost every word of the visible text. The invisible font rules don't seem to catch this. lzdtec Working on it...