[Techtalk] [OT] Garbage text in spam
Jessica Smith
crystalsinger at mail.com
Tue Mar 4 00:06:36 EST 2003
Hi Dan,
At 3/03/03 12:06 PM +0100, you wrote:
>When I get spam, it often has a seemingly random string of characters at
>the bottom. I assume that this is a sort of serial number so that, if the
>spam gets reported, they will know who sent the report. Can anyone
>enlighten me on this?
Random-ish strings are usually an attempt to defeat anti-spam software. If
you look at some HTML e-mails you'll find that they contain comments within
the HTML source with snippets of text in them (Mary had a little lamb...
etc.) in an effort to do the same thing.
The spam engine inserts these semi-randomly into the spam to make them less
formulaic.
Jess
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