Question about AI generated spam and prompts
"Tom Williams via users" <[email protected]> Fri, 29 May 2026 21:07:47 -0700
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Hi! A friend of mine is getting hammered with Costco, AAA, Lowe's and
similar spam. I don't know how they got her email address, but she's
getting flooded. Her email account is on a shared hosting platform
(Hostgator) and while Spamassassin is installed and configured, it's
blocking only so much of this.
Anyway, I'm writing because tonight, she started getting messages that
contain the text of a prompt for an AI engine to generate the spam
email. lol
My questions:
1. Is having access to the prompt text useful in helping Spamassassin
detect and filter out AI generated spam?
2. Would it be worthwhile to create any kind of rule to look for the
prompt text to help in filtering out the messages?
I have a few samples of these if anyone is interested.
Thanks in advance!
Peace...
Tom
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<p>Hi! A friend of mine is getting hammered with Costco, AAA,
Lowe's and similar spam. I don't know how they got her email
address, but she's getting flooded. Her email account is on a
shared hosting platform (Hostgator) and while Spamassassin is
installed and configured, it's blocking only so much of this. </p>
<p>Anyway, I'm writing because tonight, she started getting messages
that contain the text of a prompt for an AI engine to generate the
spam email. lol</p>
<p>My questions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Is having access to the prompt text useful in helping
Spamassassin detect and filter out AI generated spam?</li>
<li>Would it be worthwhile to create any kind of rule to look for
the prompt text to help in filtering out the messages?</li>
</ol>
<p>I have a few samples of these if anyone is interested.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Peace...</p>
<p>Tom</p>
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