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Spam and the Non-Delivery Report: Techniques That are Easily Identified by Adaptive Spam Filters
Overview A standard email non-delivery report (NDR) can simply be faked by a spammer to mislead the recipient into opening it, believing that it is genuine, and subsequently opening an attachment that is spam. To make the NDR look more genuine, the spammer can send an email containing the attachment to a non-existent address at a server that is known to send NDRs, inserting the target recipient's email address in the "From" field. Adaptive filters are unlikely to be fooled by this and can analyze the content of the attachment in relation to the NDR to determine a spam probability.
| Publisher | Sophos | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | March 2004 | Downloads | 115 |
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