I've been interesting in spam ever since my days working on Claris Emailer and thinking about ways to filter out spam messages. They started off pretty straight-forward, then they started to appear as if they came from you or people you might know, they started putting random expository text in the body to get around keyword filters, and they even used images with text to prevent text parsing altogether.
Today I got a clever one I hadn't seen before. It was clearly a spam message, but it has a "button bar" looking thing at the top that had a button labeled "spam". Viewing the source of the message confirmed that the link in the button was the same as the call-to-action link in the body of the message. Tricky.
Today I got a clever one I hadn't seen before. It was clearly a spam message, but it has a "button bar" looking thing at the top that had a button labeled "spam". Viewing the source of the message confirmed that the link in the button was the same as the call-to-action link in the body of the message. Tricky.
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