Just saw a new spam tactic

Thu Jan 30 18:30:48 CET 2003

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 00:08, Chris Wilkes wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:40:28PM -0800, Max Rible wrote:
> > I just got a piece of spam that's full of bogus HTML tags-- lots
> > of </k> tags inserted in the middle of words.  The tags will be 
> > ignored by most HTML renderers, but will break up the text for
> > spam parsing.
> 
> Could you post what version of bogofilter you're using?  The latest one
> does include code to through out HTML comments like this:
>   to<!-- -->ner cart<!-- -->ridge
> and give you what you would see in a browser, mainly:
>   toner cartridge
> 
> I'm not sure about bogus HTML tags though.  It would be nice to get some
> sort of number representing how poorly writen an HTML page is.

Hmmm...  looks like I haven't upgraded since 0.8.0-1...  [upgrades
to latest stable version] but mostly I wanted to mention the 
spamming tactic.  This is the HTML the spammer used:

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#FFFFFF"><table width="542" height="329"
align="center"><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#993333"
height="164"><table width="520" height="368" align="center"
bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr><table width="529" height="366"
align="center"><tr><td align="center" valign="middle"
bgcolor="AC2D2D"><p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="6"></k></k></k>Fi</k>nd N</k>ew </k>Fri</k>end</k>s A</k>nd
P</k>art</k>ners</k></font></b><br><br><font color="#FFFFFF"><font
face="tahoma" size="1"></font></font></k>Pr</k>emi</k>er mat</k>ch
</k>mak</k>ing ser</k>vi</k>ce for people just</k> like you<br><br>
Ov</k>er 8</k>00</k>0 new me</k>mbe</k>rs every d</k>a</k>y,
s</k>ev</k>en days a week<br>
<br>F</k>ind people in your l</k>oc</k>al ar</k>ea<br><br>
R</k>ema</k>in A</k>nony</k>mou</k>s<br><br> F</k>ind</k>ing </k>a
par</k>tn</k>er has never been ea</k>sie</k>r<br><br><font face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><br><b><a
href="http://www.quicklink.bz/f">C</k>li</k>ck h</k>er</k>e to st</k>art
m</k>eet</k>in</k>g<br>n</k>ew fr</k>iends and
par</k>tner</k>s</a></b></font></p></td></tr></table>
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