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cynar@lemmy.world 2 days agoDoes it however? I’m not up to speed on modern anti spam, but a huge number of spelling mistakes screams spam to me. I would be extremely surprised if it wasn’t the case. The best way to deliver spam is to make it indistinguishable from legit messages.
Also, the existence of spear fishing implies it’s a choice.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Do you mean to say, you’ve learned to associate spelling errors with spam because most of the spam you see… the spam that gets past your spam filters… has a lot of spelling errors?
That’s just not true. The best way to deliver spam is to send it from a reputable address, and to avoid looking like spam.
Bayesian filters need to be trained by a user identifying email as spam. From those emails it learns which words frequently appear in spam emails. Including spelling errors means more unique words rather than words that look like spam.
cynar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
More than I see very few of them anymore. I see more of them when I look in the junk mail, but even hotmail has gotten good a filtering out all the crap.