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Is anyone else getting variations of this spam email?

NFS4

NFS4

No Lifer
My Thunderbird spam filters can't seem to figure this one out and still let them slip through. I get them on all three of my email accounts. They all look similar to this layout, but with differing text:

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I used to get a ton of spam but for the last few months I use my comcast webmail to kill the spam and now it's been cut in half when I use tbird
 
I don't get these kinda spams, most of them don't have any links or any company names or stock options, what's the point?
 
nope. but i seem to get a lot of spam in gmail regarding viagra. gmail hasn't failed yet. all spam goes to the spam folder. in my yahoo account, any spam i get always goes to my inbox.
 
My junk email account gets them, about 1 per day but none of my other email accounts do. My boss'es main email gets about 20 per day of the same thing. So far, I don't think any filter can filter them out.
 
Image Spam is hard to filter, but the anti-Spam vendors are working on it using OCR to read what's in the images. That's why the image is so "noisy," it's to try to evade the OCR systems. The random noise added around the edge is deliberately random so the anti-Spam vendors can't arbitrarily block just a single image. Don't open any Spam if you can help it.

A great deal of the Spam you get is sent by infected home computers participating in a botnet. So if you have clueless gf/mom/siblings, check their systems for current-generation antivirus software (not some relic from 2 years ago), a firewall, and patching. Here are some online checkup tools (use Internet Explorer, since these are ActiveX-based tools):


If they have old antivirus software and you need some free stuff, AntiVir was probably the best free one until AOL Kaspersky came out. If you use AOL Kaspersky, leave off the optional security toolbar. Make sure to schedule scans, and go through the Settings panel to configure it.
 
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