Outlook 2003 Rule to Match Body Text Fails

[DALF]

I'm getting a new class of spam that can't be filtered
with a rule that matches text in the email body even
though the text exists in the body. Also, Outlook's
Simple Find can't match text in the message body. Has
anyone else encountered this new type of Spam? Any ideas?
(Outlook 2003's builtin Junk Mail filter doesn't catch
them either.)

Most of these spams includes phrases like "I just heard"
or "I wanted to tell you" or "My name is John", and
include links to the certain WEb sites:
http://getitrightnowwholesale.com or
http://unbelievabledealswholesale.biz or
http://thesedealzwontlast.com. The emails are in HTML,
charset=iso-8859-1, and appear to be relayed from many
different IP's.

Thanks.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Outlook rules do not work reliably on HTML mail - one of the reasons that
spammers have turned to this type of mail to avoid spam filtering.

If I were you, I would download SpamBayes to help with the spam. I have it
installed on my desktop and between Outlook 2003 and SpamBayes, I have only
had 1 email slip through this last week, out of hundred or so mails.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, DALF asked:

| I'm getting a new class of spam that can't be filtered
| with a rule that matches text in the email body even
| though the text exists in the body. Also, Outlook's
| Simple Find can't match text in the message body. Has
| anyone else encountered this new type of Spam? Any ideas?
| (Outlook 2003's builtin Junk Mail filter doesn't catch
| them either.)
|
| Most of these spams includes phrases like "I just heard"
| or "I wanted to tell you" or "My name is John", and
| include links to the certain WEb sites:
| http://getitrightnowwholesale.com or
| http://unbelievabledealswholesale.biz or
| http://thesedealzwontlast.com. The emails are in HTML,
| charset=iso-8859-1, and appear to be relayed from many
| different IP's.
|
| Thanks.

 

[mb]

Outlook rules do not work reliably on HTML mail - one of the reasons that
spammers have turned to this type of mail to avoid spam filtering.

If I were you, I would download SpamBayes to help with the spam. I have it
installed on my desktop and between Outlook 2003 and SpamBayes, I have only
had 1 email slip through this last week, out of hundred or so mails.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, DALF asked:

Thanks, that did the trick. Now if I could just get rid of this bland
tan color that permeates the body of programs in XP.

mb

 

[DALF]

Thanks, Milly. I'll take a look at SpamBayes.