mail digest as disguise

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Sat Feb 21 23:04:57 CET 2004


Greetings,

As you may know, I subscribe to the libtool at gnu.org mailing list.  FSF
has a "no subscription needed" policy which allows people to post
without subscribing.  This presents an opportunity for spammers and they
use it!

Today I received the attached spam, which bogofilter thought was ham.
The message is very interesting because it seems to be a legitimate mail
digest from the list and has an added message (#2) which is a via-gra
advertisement.

I'd call this a targeted spam wrapped in a list specific ham wrapper!

Methinks somebody went to a lot of effort (for very little payoff).

David




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