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I just received what is easily the most sophisticated spam I’ve ever gotten. I deleted the URL (a porn link) so as to protect anyone from an inadvertent click, but you can drop me a line if you’d like to see it: it’s an amazingly accurate spoof of a bare Apache index page, with a movable DHTML window floating above it — super slick.

The spam itself completely fooled both SpamAssassin and Apple Mail’s filter. SpamAssassin scored it as a -3.1, even with all the custom rulesets I’m running. It’s a thing of beauty, in it’s own way, though it’s really scary how well-crafted it is. The only consolation is that 99.9% of spammer/scammers don’t go through the effort to come up with anything this convincing.

From: Dina@(redacted).com
Subject: Not such good News
Date: August 17, 2004 8:05:25 PM EDT
To: (redacted)@freeke.org
Reply-To: bounce@(redacted).com

Hey dude,

It”s been awhile since I”ve written, so I just thought I would take a sec to catch up with you. How”s things on your side of the world?

Things have been kindof rough over here…Kara left me a couple months ago, and our divorce is final tomorrow. She soaked me for child support AND alimony :( Whatever, though, life goes on. At least I don”t have anyone bitching at me over my shoulder all the time LOL I spend most of my time online lately - it”s pretty cool how much shit you can see and learn. Ok, ok, so I spend most of my time surfing for porn LMAO Hey, I”m a lone dude, what else is there to do??

It”s so screwed up how people don”t cover their asses, though. You”d think with the kind of investment they have to make that these idiots would pay more attention to their stuff. Like this one: http://(redacted) dude they didn”t even bother to password protect the thing! And I”ll bet they are wondering why they can”t sell anything hehe

Alright bro, I”ve gotta run…nice talkin to you again, and say hi to Kristin for me.

cya,

Steve

:: Dave Walker 18:38 (EST/EDT) [+]

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