On 27 Jul 2005 14:31:59 +0100 (BST), David Damerell
wrote:

Quoting GWood :
I have set up dozens of email filter rules via Outlook, so most get routed
to the bit bucket on the way in. Interesting that the spammers will go to
the effort of trying to mask the text in their mails (i.e. substituting "1"
for "i" and similar pattern matching) to try to fool the email filters. As
if someone (or company) who deliberately filters the original trash will
actually change their minds when the doctored email gets through the filter?

Well, yes. Imagine a company that filters the junk; get through the
filters, you can spam the suckers amongst the employees. Lots of people
don't know about all the filtering on their mail, and some of them are
suckers.

A year or two back some gal, an accountant at a California law firm embezzled
something like 200 LARGE when she got bit by a Nigerian scam. She was going to
pay it all back as soon as she got the "AMOUNT OF FOURTY-SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS
LEFT IN THE ACCOUNT OF THE SOUTHERN NIGERIAN PETROLEUM TRUST TRANSFERRED TO YOUR
BANK FOR CLEARANCE."

Gotta believe the scammers repeat that story among themselves and pray for a
score like that.


Ron