[CS-FSLUG] Dumb spam

[Fred A. Miller]

On Thursday 11 August 2005 10:57 am, Don Parris wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:23:11 -0500
>
> Steve McCracken <smccrack at hcjb.org.ec> wrote:
> > Nathan T. wrote:
> > > I've seen more than my share of spam mail that didn't say anything
> > > understandable, it was just a mess of random letters.
> >
> > As Fred said, It could come from the orient and therefore be coded for
> > the characters there.  Also, I've seen a good share of Spam that was
> > unintelligible if only shown in plain text, but if looked at in HTML
> > showed completely differently.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
>
> My e-mail client, Sylpheed-claws, renders html mail in plain text.  The
> nice thing is that I get to see where the Paypal scammers are trying to
> redirect me.  It's entertaining when I'm just wasting time. ;-)

I trace the hairbags and "turn them in." If they're in the US, they often will 
loose their accounts with their ISP.

Fred

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