I have been recently seeing a sharp increase in the amount of spam email I recieve; before I only recieved maybe one spam mail in three months (fairly normal ones), but I have gotten four of these things in the last two days and they have all carried something unusual at the end. They are your typical spam stuff, advertising for some sort of internet service, product, whatever. (you can make thousands of dollars in a week by doing such and such things etc.
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What I found really strange though is that the following (or some slight variant of it) was added at the end of every email.
SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results ----------------------
SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered
SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future.
SPAM: See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details.
SPAM:
SPAM: Content analysis details: (32.90 hits, 5 required)
SPAM: NO_REAL_NAME (-0.3 points) From: does not include a real name
SPAM: FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS (1.6 points) From: ends in numbers
SPAM: INVALID_DATE (1.6 points) Invalid Date: header (not RFC 2822)
SPAM: PARA_A_2_C_OF_1618 (4.0 points) BODY: Claims compliance with Senate Bill 1618
SPAM: SECTION_301 (3.8 points) BODY: Claims compliance with SPAM regulations
SPAM: RISK_FREE (2.8 points) BODY: Risk free. Suuurreeee....
SPAM: INITIAL_INVEST (2.6 points) BODY: Requires Initial Investment
SPAM: FINANCIAL (2.5 points) BODY: Financial Freedom
SPAM: JODY (2.4 points) BODY: Contains "My wife, Jody" testimonial
SPAM: SENT_IN_COMPLIANCE (2.3 points) BODY: Claims compliance with SPAM regulations
SPAM: COPY_ACCURATELY (1.4 points) BODY: Common pyramid scheme phrase (1)
SPAM: MLM (1.3 points) BODY: Multi Level Marketing mentioned
SPAM: BULK_EMAIL (0.7 points) BODY: Talks about bulk email
SPAM: ONLY_COST (0.5 points) BODY: Only $$$
SPAM: FREE_MONEY (0.3 points) BODY: Free money!
SPAM: NOT_INTENDED (0.0 points) BODY: Not intended for residents of XYZ.
SPAM: LINES_OF_YELLING_3 (-0.8 points) BODY: 3 WHOLE LINES OF YELLING DETECTED
SPAM: LINES_OF_YELLING_2 (-0.7 points) BODY: 2 WHOLE LINES OF YELLING DETECTED
SPAM: SPAM_PHRASE_13_21 (3.0 points) BODY: Spam phrases score is 13 to 21 (high)
SPAM: [score: 17]
SPAM: LINES_OF_YELLING (0.3 points) BODY: A WHOLE LINE OF YELLING DETECTED
SPAM: FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD (1.4 points) 'From' yahoo.com does not match 'Received' headers
SPAM: CASHCASHCASH (2.2 points) Contains at least 3 dollar signs in a row
SPAM:
SPAM: -------------------- End of SpamAssassin results ---------------------
Anyone know what this thing is? Does gamespy (this is a 3dap email address) use some kind of bot that scans suspicious-looking emails and adds the results of the scan data to the end? The link given there did not seem to offer much help. I'm just wondering what is going on here.
