Stock spam in images

[Dylan Bouterse <dy...@corp.power1.com>]

I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if
what I'm about to ask about has been covered but I haven't seen anything
yet.

Lately I have been getting more and more of the stock alert spam but now
all the good info is in an image and typically following the image is
random text to fool the Bayesian filter. I think the random text thing
has been covered here recently. It's frustrating when sa is giving a
-1.6 (or so) score to these emails right off the bat. Quite a few of
these aren't even getting spam headers because they aren't scoring high
enough. Is there some magical trick to help score these messages higher?
Maybe a future version of sa will incorporate an OCR module? :)

Dylan

R: Stock spam in images

[Giampaolo Tomassoni <g....@libero.it>]

> I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if
> what I'm about to ask about has been covered but I haven't seen anything
> yet.
> 
> Lately I have been getting more and more of the stock alert spam but now
> all the good info is in an image and typically following the image is
> random text to fool the Bayesian filter. I think the random text thing
> has been covered here recently. It's frustrating when sa is giving a
> -1.6 (or so) score to these emails right off the bat. Quite a few of
> these aren't even getting spam headers because they aren't scoring high
> enough. Is there some magical trick to help score these messages higher?
> Maybe a future version of sa will incorporate an OCR module? :)

Pssst, don't tell: I just bothered this list with that...

Just look for fuzzyocr (http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin).


Giampaolo


> 
> Dylan

RE: Stock spam in images

[Brent Kennedy <br...@cfl.rr.com>]

Newbie is a derogatory term and to call yourself a newbie is like calling
yourself a moron(no offense).

>From Wiki:
A newbie is a newcomer to a particular field, the term being commonly used
on the Internet, where it might refer to new, inexperienced, or ignorant
users of a game, a newsgroup, an operating system or the Internet itself.
The term is generally regarded as an insult, although in many cases more
experienced/knowledgeable people use it in purposes of negative
reinforcement, urging "newbies" to learn more about the field or area in
question.

Sorry just had to say it.. Was bugging me.


:)


-----Original Message-----
From: Dylan Bouterse [mailto:dylan@corp.power1.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:38 AM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Stock spam in images

I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if what
I'm about to ask about has been covered but I haven't seen anything yet.

Lately I have been getting more and more of the stock alert spam but now all
the good info is in an image and typically following the image is random
text to fool the Bayesian filter. I think the random text thing has been
covered here recently. It's frustrating when sa is giving a
-1.6 (or so) score to these emails right off the bat. Quite a few of these
aren't even getting spam headers because they aren't scoring high enough. Is
there some magical trick to help score these messages higher?
Maybe a future version of sa will incorporate an OCR module? :)

Dylan