[Spambayes] Cute spam trick

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Mon Dec 16 00:26:44 EST 2002


[Tim]
>     ...
>     Let the Len<!--yczvHV-->ders <br>
>     Com<!--yczvHV-->pete for your Lo<!--yczvHV-->an!</font></b></div>
>     ...
>
> That is, the spammy words like Lenders and Compete and Loan! are
> broken up by embedded HTML comments.  Our tokenizer does strip HTML
> comments, but replaces each with a blank, so the spammy words remain
> broken up.
>
> I'll fix that.  In the meantime, if anyone knows this spammer <wink>,
> counsel them to break up the word "month!" too, as that was the
> highest-spamprob token in the whole msg.

It's fixed, and that particular spam is nailed now.  Among the previously
"hidden" words, 'refinance', 'equity', and 'debt' all have higher spamprobs
than 'month!', and the score is now at the high end of the spam range.

stupid-beats-smart-stupid-beats-smart-stupid-beats-smart-ly y'rs  - tim




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