So then I says "Spammer?! I hardly know her!"

Sophos is reporting that a new trend in spam these days is that spammers are including jokes along with their message.

Part of this is in the hopes of getting more people to open the message - wanting to read the joke and then with that seeing the spam message (what?! this is nearly a content-based system with ads at this point... that would approach legitimacy if it weren't that the people receiving it didn't request it). But it is also just like the other common trend of adding in text from poems, books, and articles so as to make Bayesian filters more inclined to let the spam through the front door so to speak.

Posted by Eric at May 6, 2005 09:11 AM | TrackBack