Top-10 Spammer Tricks
- Transfer via open relay
- Use of offshore ISPs
- Pink contracts
- Insecure mailback scripts
- Open proxies / zombies
- Direct-to-MX software
- Forged headers
- Bogus addresses
- Obfuscated URLs
- Encoded message bodies
- Encrypted message bodies
- Disabled right-click
- Hashbusters
- Web bugs and beacons
- “Personalized” messages
- “Creative” misspelling
- Bogus text
- Obfuscated HTML
- DNS tampering
- Affiliates and portals
- Dictionary attacks
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