I very rarely open spam email and I never click the links but today I got an email with the following header and footer. Anyone know what exactly it means?
Header:
Footer:
They seem to be some sort of keyword lists but nothing in there really makes any sense. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Just nonsense, I speculate. The images and links are what they want to attract you with. Not sure why they’d need to put random words in, even as filler.
Never mind the header & footer. They may have been designed to foil spam-scanners. What did the body say?
The spammers do this to make each spam message “unique” in an attempt to fool spam filters into letting the message through.
WAG: Maybe some spam filters compare the ratio of trigger words (mortgage, rate, prescription, Viagra, penis, webcam, etc.) to non-trigger words. This will avoid catching non-spam messages that just happen to have one or two suspicious words. Filling the spam message with safe words decreases the ratio.
Podkayne is correct, I use a spam filter which works by noting the frequency of certain words. (POPFile, to be exact).
Another way they try to get aro
und such a filter is to use line br
eaks to break up words which sp
am filters recognize.