Spammers now using ASCII Art

April 21, 2005 by Pete Freitag

I just got some spam emails within the last few days that contained ASCII Art messages. This is clever, and they did make it past spam assassin. The last one I got received a spam assassin score of 3.0, a 5.0 is required to classify a message as spam on our server.

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