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Filter-foiling Gibberish Becoming A Spam Staple
hcg50a writes "Wired has a story about the random words which have recently been appearing in spam. Antispam experts agreed that this isn't a brand-new technique, but said the addition of potentially filter-foiling gibberish is rapidly becoming a common component of spam."
I don't know who the marketing genius is that thinks I am going to buy something advertised in an email with this subject. Seriously, is anyone buying stuff from the "new" spam email with all of the gibberish characters in the subject and body?
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Yeah, but the point is to avoid using the word Viagra correctly, instead putting in strings like "V*I*A*G*R*A", "V14Gr4", "V - I = A - G = R - A", and anything else they can think of to try to avoid string traps.