How are spammers getting around my Outlook Rules?

[BG]

I have set up a rule to automatically delete certain porn related words. It
works pretty well for the most part, but there have been several recent
spams with some of those same words. And no, it isn't a situation where the
word has numerals in place of letters. I even highlighted, copied and
pasted the words it into my words list in the rule. Oh, I am using Outlook
2002, if that makes any difference. Also, the offender's url they advertise
is http://yvunufoyhqsy.rfxoyi33.com Any recommendations?

BG

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have set up a rule to automatically delete certain porn related
words. It works pretty well for the most part, but there have been
several recent spams with some of those same words. And no, it isn't
a situation where the word has numerals in place of letters. I even
highlighted, copied and pasted the words it into my words list in the
rule. Oh, I am using Outlook 2002, if that makes any difference.
Also, the offender's url they advertise is
http://yvunufoyhqsy.rfxoyi33.com Any recommendations?

Outlook's rules don't operate well on HTML, if at all.

 

[BG]

Outlook's rules don't operate well on HTML, if at all.

I've got everything set to come in text. Everything else seems to get
zapped by the rules, but these jokers have found a way to get around it. I
hate spammers!

 

[Brian Tillman]

I've got everything set to come in text. Everything else seems to get
zapped by the rules, but these jokers have found a way to get around
it. I hate spammers!

Are you saying you have the ReadAsPlain option selected? Even if you do,
the message isn't actually stored in plain text, it's only presented in
plain text. According to articles in the MS Knowledgebase, the message is
still in its original format internally. Consequently, I can imagine that
the rules still see it in HTML, even though you don't.

A tool like http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ can be helpful.