Re: "news" and ebay spam

I'm posting this to spamcop.mail and spamcop.spam with followups to
spamcop.mail because traditionally .spam is only used for posting raw
spam headers and unrendered bodies before there was the better choice of
posting the spamitem's tracker which is far superior to posting any raw
spam at all anywhere.

I'm posting to .mail and f/ups to .mail because this is a spamcop mail
account related issue.  There is some help for mail related issues in
spamcop.mail and the admins for mail mostly support the webforum for
mail questions at http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showforum=4
SpamCop Email System & Accounts

Brandon Blackmoor wrote:
> Over the past several weeks, the vast majority of spam that is
> slipping through SpamCop (for me) falls into one of two categories:
>
> Ebay/Payal related spam: "question from Ebay member XXXXX", "Paypal
> account update notification", and similar things
>
> "News" related spam: "Breaking news", "News Update", "Important
> news", and so on.
>
> I get several of each of these per day. I am wondering if anyone
> knows why these two specific types of spam seem to be so successful
> at avoiding SpamCop, and if there is something that I can do about it
> (other than reporting them, which I already do, or upping the
> sensitivity of SpamAssassin, which is already set to the sensitivity
> I want it to have).

If you post the trackers for the spamitems in question instead of trying
to describe them, they can be addressed more precisely.

When an item is parsed, its tracker appears at the top of the parse, in
this environment and configuration:

Here is your TRACKING URL - it may be saved for future reference:
http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z839917952zdbdabb412d5e9a3040ee6d428afc1d65z


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin