Re: "news" and ebay spam

Mike Easter <[email protected]> wrote 
	[...]
> 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).

No comment on 'News' spam, but all my Ebay/Paypal spam usually gets
high SpamAssassin scores and so is no trouble. (16.3 and 21.2 for
example)

http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z839606703zd075a886cec110d052a57ba9e5e6a972
z

Have you considered adding both Ebay.com and Paypal.com to your
personal blacklist ? Of course if you are actually registered with
these orgs changing to a new email box for them would be a good idea.

That's how I got this one.
http://webmail.spamcop.net/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sp
amcop.net%2Fsc%3Fid%3Dz839139153z0bfa46f9c4fcd8dd1207e5e563ae130bz

-- 
Mike D