Quoting Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
There's a reason. The amount of permutations is ridiculous. But SARE has Evilnumbers which catches these.
Except that evilnumbers hasn't been updated in over a year :-) I've been writing custom rules to block the phone numbers used in these. You could write rules for the wording, but like Chris said, it changes so often that it's a very fast-moving target. It's probably much more difficult for the spammer to change their phone number than to change the text of their e-mails, so write a rule for the phone number, and then score it through the roof. I've noticed that it usually takes a handful of phone number rules to stop these spams for a while, then the spammer changes numbers, and you have to do it all over again. Modifications in the phone number format are also a small challenge. For example 555.555.5555, 555-555-5555, 555 555 5555, 555- 555-5555, (555)555.5555, etc etc. So you have to write your rules to take that into account. Craig
