>-----Original Message----- >From: Craig McLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:33 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: OT?: If you need proof that spammers use the same resources as >us... > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Call me paranoid, but a few weeks back I posted a couple of >rules on this >list and to the exit0 wiki which were designed to catch a common phrase >seen in many 419 spams. Notably one which catches a common "allow me to >introduce myself" style opening. >It was not particularly clever, simply searching for the 2-word phrase >"introduce myself", but lo and behold this week I get: > >"allow me to introduce my humble-self" >"must introduce,myself" >"to introduce my very self" > >And various others. It appears to me a timely reminder, as if one were >needed, that some spammers know what measures are being used >against them >and learn how to combat at least some of them. > >Three cheers for Bayes and the SARE ninjas, then! > >Kind Regards, >Craig.
Oh this is most definetly a fact. And we have been using it to our advantage. When certain things are leaked and posted in certain places, we monitor the changing spam traffic. Add this to our research to figure out which spammers are looking where. It makes us feel like Nancy Drew :) Some of the rules in our files are even crafted in certain ways to help us monitor this. I have no doubt they watch us close. I bet they have some file on me that says I'm some Hockey nut who loves violence :) A *few* of the spammers are pretty smart. Its kind of like the movie HEAT. Sure we both know they will spam, and I will stop them. But it doesn't mean we can't have a cup of coffee together. Just means the spammer pays for the coffee :) We haven't seen the end of their tricks. Hi Mr. Spammy! --Chris (I'm Al Pachino!)
