{"id":36,"date":"2006-10-28T09:03:43","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T13:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jrtwine.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-05-28T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T14:24:20","slug":"worst-spam-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrtwine.com\/blog\/worst-spam-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst… Spam… Ever…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So while browsing through my spam-basket I came across an interesting message that was caught by SpamAssassin<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 The headers from that message follow (edited slightly to remove addresses and to emphasise details):<\/p>\n

Subject: \u00c2\u00a7\u00c3\u0161\u00c2\u00acO\u00c2\u00a4@\u00c2\u00ad\u00c3\u201c\u00c2\u00b7\u00c3\u2026\u00c2\u00acX\u00c2\u00aa\u00c2\u00ba\u00c2\u00a8\u00c3\u201e\u00c2\u00a8\u00c3\u201e\u00c2\u00a4k\u00c2\u00ab\u00c3\u201e.\u00c2\u00b7Q\u00c2\u00b4M\u00c2\u00a7\u00c3\u00a4\u00c2\u00a8\u00c3\u00ab\u00c2\u00bfE\u00c2\u00aa\u00c2\u00ba\u00c2\u00ad\u00c3\u00b4\u00c2\u00ad\u00c3\u00b4\u00c2\u00b1z\u00c2\u00b3\u00c3\u0178\u00c3\u2026w\u00c2\u00b6\u00c3\u0153?\u00c2\u00a1\u00c3\u00b020\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00b3
\nX-Spam-Status: Yes, score=63.4 required=5.0<\/font><\/strong><\/em> tests=BAYES_99, DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_XX, FORGED_MUA_EUDORA, FORGED_QUALCOMM_TAGS, FROM_ILLEGAL_CHARS, HEAD_ILLEGAL_CHARS, HTML_30_40, HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_08, HTML_MESSAGE, HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG, HTML_SHORT_LINK_IMG_1, MIME_BOUND_DD_DIGITS, MIME_HTML_ONLY, MIME_HTML_ONLY_MULTI, MISSING_MIMEOLE, MSGID_SPAM_CAPS, NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP, RCVD_DOUBLE_IP_SPAM, RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO, REPTO_QUOTE_QUALCOMM, REPTO_QUOTE_YAHOO, SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY, URIBL_JP_SURBL, URIBL_OB_SURBL, URIBL_SBL, URIBL_SC_SURBL, URIBL_WS_SURBL, X_IP, X_PRIORITY_HIGH autolearn=spam version=3.1.7
\nDate: Tue, 19 Jan 2038 11:14:07 +0800
\nX-Spam-Flag: YES
\nX-Spam-Level: **************************************************<\/font>
\n<\/em><\/strong>From xxxx.xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.com.br<\/a> Tue Oct 24 16: 43:51 2006
\nX-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on xxxxxx.xxxxxx.com
\nMessage-Id: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
\nContent-Type: multipart\/mixed; boundary=\"----------=_453E7B09.452041D8\"
\nTo: support@xxxxxxx.com.tw<\/a>
\nFrom: mailto:\u00c2\u00bc\u00c3\u0090\u00c3\u0192D\u00c2\u00a1G\u00c2\u00a1m\u00c2\u00a5\u00c2\u00a8\u00c2\u00a8\u00c3\u2026\u00c2\u00b0\u00c3\u008f\u00c2\u00a1n\u00c2\u00b7s\u00c2\u00bcW\u00c2\u00a1m\u00c2\u00bba\u00c2\u00a4\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00aa\u00c3\u2026\u00c2\u00a1n\u00c2\u00b1j\u00c2\u00a5\u00c2\u00b4\u00c2\u00b7s\u00c2\u00a4\u00c3\u00b9\u00c2\u00a1A\u00c2\u00a4\u00c3\u00b9\u00c2\u00a4\u00c2\u00a4\u00c2\u00a6\u00c2\u00b3\u00c2\u00a6o\u00c2\u00b8g\u00c2\u00a8\u00c3\u00a5\u00c2\u00aa\u00c2\u00ba\u00c2\u00bc\u00c3\u00a9\u00c2\u00a7j\u00c3\u0192\u00c3\u00a8\u00c3\u20acY\u00c2\u00a1I\u00c2\u00b3\u00c3\u00b4\u00c2\u00ba\u00c3\u2122\u00c2\u00a5L\u00c2\u00a7@\u00c2\u00ab~\u00c2\u00a4\u00c2\u00ba\u00c2\u00aa\u00c2\u00ba\u00c2\u00a4W\u00c2\u00a4W\u00c2\u00a4\u00c2\u00a7\u00c2\u00bf\u00c3\u00af%20(\u00c2\u00a1m\u00c2\u00a5\u00c2\u00a8\u00c2\u00a8\u00c3\u2026\u00c2\u00b0\u00c3\u008f\u00c2\u00a1n\u00c2\u00b7s\u00c2\u00bcW\u00c2\u00a5i\u00c2\u00b7R\u00c2\u00b5\u00c2\u00a3\u00c3\u0192C\u00c3\u201e_\u00c2\u00a8\u00c2\u00a9\u00c2\u00a1m\u00c2\u00bba\u00c2\u00a4\u00c2\u00ab)<\/a> <\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can honestly say – that has got to be the worst<\/em><\/strong> message I ever received.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of my spam emails never get above a spam-score of 20!\u00c2\u00a0 What gets me is that the sender of the message somehow managed to completely mess it up.\u00c2\u00a0 So this is an example of the\u00c2\u00a0fourth (I think<\/em>) rule of software development – always test what you are doing (or trying to do)!<\/p>\n

I mean, come on now… If you are stupid enough to construct a message that sets off that many spam-traps, you really are an idiot!\u00c2\u00a0 It is things like this that give me hope that we will eventually win the war on spam<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Hell, look at the kinds of people we are fighting! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When spam goes bad, it goes *really* bad…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","category-rants","category-using"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t