You will find scams from Nigeria and other places if you are just selling items on the Net. I bought lots of bike parts the last 3 months and guys were attempting to scam them by buying their parts and then sending them a Cashiers Check from a foreign bank that was worthless. One poor guy went to his bank and they told him it was good and then it didn’t process though and he was stuck.
Of course,this guy has come up with the perfect way to respond to these email scammers.
Looks like it’s supposed to be HTML, but they messed up. Apart from that, it has an invisible (white text on white) block of non-spam-associated words, to make it look like a normal email. Then a block of spam message words deliberately broken up with invalid tags to hide the sheer awful spamminess of them. All tactics to try and fool spam filters.
Note also the screwed-up web-bug link to an image with a unprocessed “%RANDOM_TEXT” flag.
The success of spam filters means that the spam has to be ever smarter to get through. Unfortunately it also means the spammer has to be smarter too. As we can see here, they aren’t. I come across quite a few attempts at spamming where the spammer isn’t smart enough to use their own spam generating software.
Man, I remember getting these scams delivered to the office by snail mail more than 15 years ago. They were usually 5th generation photocopies which most of them were completely illegible but at least the stamps from exotic places were cool.
Perhaps, but in this particular case, this is a resurrected thread from two years ago.