[ILUG] [OT] a spammer who ``knows'' Unicode?

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Wed Mar 23 22:28:09 GMT 2005


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Paul Jakma writes:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Paolo Marchiori wrote:
> 
> > no, but I've seen PGP-signed spam
> 
> Cause spamassasin used to automatically give PGP sig taglines a 
> "bonus".

a long time ago ;)  They were never valid sigs btw.

Spammers will do anything -- unicode bidi tags are just one of
their tricks.  See jgc's "Spammer's Compendium" doc (google)
for many more...

- --j.
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