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[SpamCop-List] Re: pointless - surprise

Ant not at home.today
Mon Aug 15 01:41:38 EDT 2005


"J G" wrote:

> On 8/14/2005 11:22 AM Ant scribbled:
>> It's a plain-text pump 'n dump. I can't see any link.
>
> In the last paragraph, the following appears-   "...forw at rd lo0king
> statements."  Upon doing ctrl-U with TBird, it picks this up as an addy
> and highlights it as such.

I see what you mean. It's just normal spammer obfuscation which
attempts to defeat filters looking for spammy words and phrases.

> I really can't believe "pump and dump" is actually done in this day and
> age - just shows how dumb the masses can be, but I've worked in the
> market for a while and probably have a jaundiced view - thought the
> world, and the market, had wised up to the charade...

I'm continually amazed at how naive Joe public is.




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