Interestingly, a certain style of spam has been making it into my gmail inbox.
The subjects are gibberish words:
Ofbu Pr Tgbx Jn Nd Yf Dh Zn
Hei Zz Bnq Vaq Yi Oc Rkv Xsa Qv
H33 E7 S230 L26 U247
Oewd Ous Qj Jrah
They all have a .xhtml attachment, and the file names have regular words along with gibberish (with a space between the file name and extension):
Big Money ZK8BS80 .xhtml
Elon Musk Info L54JEO887 .xhtml
Project D6NWF2 .xhtml
Free Bitcoin W748TGJ75 .xhtml
I’m curious as to why gmail doesn’t identify these as spam.
I’m tempted to open them…you know, for my own amusement…but maybe I’ll wait until the chip shortage resolves itself since I’ll probably end up having to buy a new computer.
My best guess is that Google is using a word blacklist, and that the gibberish gets around that.
Google’s spam filters are pretty tight, in the financial world it’s tough to get any sort of even valid emails through their filters. There’s a whole bunch of insurance/purchase words that’ll get you sent to GHell right away.
Oh, look at that…in the actual email they have these numbers in red font and the others in white so that you don’t see that you’re making a non-American call or something:
I got one of the typical spam texts “Hey how are you?”
I was thinking about trolling back for amusement. Here is my first draft.
“Hi Magdalene! Good to hear from you. After the well went dry it was hard times. Losing Maggie broke my heart, but after the twins died I didn’t think I would make it. Lately chemotherapy has made me very sick and I have dropped a lot of weight. Losing a leg has been less of a hardship than I imagined. How is Gus?”
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