Foreign language SPAM

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Bruce

I've recently been gettin Korean and Japanese Spam. The language
characters form the body of the message and sometime the "TO" or "FROM"

Is there a way to set up a RULE - that would recognize a "non-western"
font and exclude any message using it??

Thanks,


Bruce Jenkins

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J

J. Simon van der Walt

Bruce said:
I've recently been gettin Korean and Japanese Spam. The language
characters form the body of the message and sometime the "TO" or "FROM"

Is there a way to set up a RULE - that would recognize a "non-western"
font and exclude any message using it??
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I've got a rule which throws out any email with any of the following
characters;

∠(Upper case Greek pi)

µ (Lower case mu)

Ï€ (Lower case pi)

- these may display as something else on your system, though. When I was
in System 9 the Korean (or whatever) didn't display properly anyway, and
I noticed these characters were common. As I'm not a mathematician and
have no Greek friends, any emails with these characters in them are
highly likely to be bogus!

HTH
 
R

Ramón G Castañeda

I've got a rule which throws out any email with any of the following
characters;

½ (Upper case Greek pi)

µ (Lower case mu)

¼ (Lower case pi)

- these may display as something else on your system, though. When I was
in System 9 the Korean (or whatever) didn't display properly anyway, and
I noticed these characters were common. As I'm not a mathematician and
have no Greek friends, any emails with these characters in them are
highly likely to be bogus!

HTH
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I've noticed that the "½ (Upper case Greek pi" often appears in legitimate
emails when the sender has used a font that includes fractions, in which
case 1/2 (or maybe 1/4) shows up as ½ once the servers and the Mac fonts are
done with it.
 
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