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Originally Posted by simbr
This is why I use Outlook rather than Outlook Express - you can (at least in the version I have at home) set it to not show images and not show HTML but enable them on an email-by-email basis (in Outlook Express the otpion is global)
With this sort of spam, the content is in am image so filters cannot scan it and the random text is there to avoid pattern based filters (since random text has no pattern).
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Thunderbird goes (imo) one better than that. By default it shows Images (but not HTML IIRC) in emails for anyone in your contact book, but not for anyone else.
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Originally Posted by TheNorm
What is the point of this kind of spam? They're not selling drugs or shares, or inviting you to view dubious websites.  |
Generally, that text is set to be the same colour as the background, so the user won't see it. I think they do it so that the email client doesn't just see one image and immediately assume it is spam.
It doesn't matter that most email clients will block this out. They only need one or two people to buy the particular product (and inevitably, some people are gullible enough to) and the spammer is in profit.