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[SC-Help] Re: <TEXTAREA> tag in spam - A way for spammers to hide their content?

Berny bar_n0ne at hotmail.com
Fri Dec 16 19:27:07 EST 2005


"Robert L. Vaessen" <rvaessen at spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.3.1134743815.16519.spamcop-help at news.spamcop.net...
> SpamCop helpers -
>
> I've noticed an interesting phenomena lately. Lately I've been
> receiving MIME multi-part spam (imagine that) with a <TEXTAREA> tag
> in the HTML portion of the message.
> SNIPPED
> I took a snapshot of the effect, and posted it at my website: <http://
> www.robsworld.org/textareaeffect.png>
> I also posted a copy of the offending spam (one sample) at my
> website: <http://www.robsworld.org/textareaeffectspam.txt>
> (I've munged my email address in the spam example, but you should be
> able to paste the content into the SpamCop reporting form, press
> 'Process Spam', and observe the effect that I've described.

A valid tracker would really help. You can go through past reports and find
one and re-parse giving you a tracker link, or resubmit and grab the tracker
and cancel. The tracker is a link to the parse, found at the beginning of
the parse.

Then you'll probably get useful commentary from M. Easter :-)




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