Re: SPAM mail subject line

by Kid Stevens <kstevens89(at)comcast.net>

Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:06:43 -0600
To:	Mike Taylor <lonewolf(at)one.net>, hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
References:	nuvox
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It is an attempt to make people believe the mail is not SPAM.  The fallacy
goes, "It has a code, it must be official or If I fill it with numbers,
since a lot of people have math phobia, they won't pay attenetion."

At 11:10 AM -0500 7/30/02, Mike Taylor wrote:
>I'm sure you've all seen many SPAM mail messages that contain strange
>numbers/characters at the end of the subject line.
>
>It will look something like this:
>
>GET OUT OF DEBT NOW!!!!      xe30558311
>
>Anyone know why spammers do this?  Is this a means to control bouncebacks
>(i.e. having a program that searches the subject line for that character
>string) or is it for some other use?
>
>Mike

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Sincerely,
Kid Stevens

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