RE: from Hanna

I’d like you to meet Hanna, a charming blue-eyed blonde, brunette with brown eyes.

Did you get the “mistake” in the previous sentence? Without reading it twice?

Today, the following mail made it past our spamassassin installation:

I am a charming blue-eyed blonde, brunette with brown eyes, and I'm
looking for an intelligent man to communicate by e-mail, Skype, or on
real dates!

Write me a message by email: Hanna@superflh.com

I find it very interesting to see spam mails like this appear. Nothing is being
sold here, no links are being made to commercial websites, no attachments came
with it, … and it’s clearly an autogenerated text, meant to make sense in a
way. So what is the purpose?

I guess they are trying to hit the so-called self-learning (mostly bayesian)
spam-filters at their weakest point: that they are but computers. In many
situations, mails like this will be manually marked as spam, and this make it
into their learning system as such. Many of these mails eventually lead to
spam-filters marking legitimate mails as spam, which for many people is totally
unacceptable. And those people might just turn off their spam filters because
of that. They “don’t work” anyway, right?

Similar things happen
elsewhere too, apparently, trying to fool Mollom.

Does this reasoning make sense?

Anyway, Hanna does seem interesting to me. Let’s drop her a line…
;-)