[LINK] another weird email thingy

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:44 AM 6/10/2007, Scott Howard wrote:
> > =?iso-8859-7?B?UmU6IFtCb3JuMldyaXRlXSChcm9pZHMgLSBBIFBvZW0gLSBvciBwZXJo?=
> >  =?iso-8859-7?B?YXBzIGEgY29tbWVudGFyeQ==?=
>
>MIME encoding of the subject in order to get a different (normally 8 bit)
>character set - in this case Greek.
>
>Spammers will also sometimes use it in an attempt to get around anti-spam
>software.

Thanks, Scott. I wonder if it's because someone is copying a Word 
character set into the message? I went back to earlier ones and they 
were mostly what I would guess to be Japanese character sets. But 
this guy was writing English. I reckon he's copy/pasting directly 
from Word. Would that do it?

Jan


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