There I was, checking email in one of the sliceofscifi.com accounts, and I see the following subject:
“A member of the religious caste, Delenn’s belief in fate and destiny is often evident.”
The name of the email sender was a little suspicious, so I knew it was spam, but I was curious, so I opened it anyway.
It was one of those image spams, and I have no idea what the image was since I have those automagically blocked, but I thought it was rather ingenious and assholish to go to the level of targeting spam with subject lines that might entice recipients to open them.
F*cktards.
If you’d taken the time to load the image you would have seen that it was for Duck Off.
Summer,
I’ve created a rule in my (Mac) Mail to intercept most image spam and move it to a suspect folder.
I look for the string “multipart/related” in the ContentType header and if the sender is not in my Address Book, then it gets moved to my Spam Suspects folder.
–
George
Alas, George, I do not trust Mac Mail anymore, but I will see if the Mac version of Thunderbird can do something similar.
And as someone who deals with a lot of email servers and web servers being bombarded with spam (from the perspective of a sysadmin at an ISP), I am truly in search of a reliable and flexible method of straining out the garbage before it can even be processed and dumped into the mailboxes of our customers.
This is a perfect example of the good guys having to play catch up to the innovations the bad guys come up with to circumvent the safeguards we build.
Strange. Look what I got in my inbox this morning…
Dearest One,
I know this letter may come to you as a suprise, but I will like you to consentrate in reading it. With trust, I have Decided to get in touch with you, to see if you can help me solve my problem.
To be brief I am Na’La the daughter of late Li’Dak of the Kha’ri. My father was a very wealthy spoo marchant in the homeworld, my father was killed by the most wicked Centauri invasion in the homeworld.
My mother died when I was pouchling and since then my father took me and my younger brother so special. Before the death of my father, he called me and my younger brother and told us that he has the sum of Ten million five hundred thousand mark left in fixed suspense account in the bank on Earth, that he used me and my brother name in depositing the money. He also explained to us that we should seek for an Earther partner (a G’Quan fearing person) that will assist us to transfer the money for investment purpose. Please, I am honorable seeking your assistance in the following ways:
1) To provide a bank account into which this money would be transfered to.
2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since.
3) To make arrangement for me and my brother to come over to your world to further our education and to secure a resident permit in your world. Moreover, we are willing to offer to you 15% of the total money as compasation for your effort input after the successfull transfer of this money into your nominated account.
My regards,
Na’La
ROFLMAO!!!