[ILUG] OT: spam targets are getting smarter

[Justin Mason]

Brendan Kehoe writes:
> I got another 'buy our crap stock' spam this evening, but its Subject 
> line really struck me as innovative:
> 
>     Subject: terms GNU Free License.
> 
> So they're now crafting Subject lines to match where they pulled the 
> addresses?  (In this case, an address which I've only ever used for 
> ChangeLog entries when changing code in gcc or some other GNU source.)

You might be right -- I think they would probably pick up words from the
same webpage, and throw that in as Bayes poison.  It's a pretty simple way
to collect great Bayes poisoning terms.  We in SpamAssassin theorised that
spammers would do it, a few years back, so it's interesting to see it's
taken one 3 years to do so ;)

--j.