OE message rules cannot help with that type of spam, other than filtering in
your mail. In my experience, those stock alerts usually stop after a few
weeks. The only other alternative would be an anti-spam program.

Some Message Rule Ideas:
http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm

Some tips:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm

Message Rules not working?:
http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/faqs/why.htm#rules
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Richard284" wrote in message
...
I just started getting dozens of emails that seem like they could be from
real people with a some inane subject matter. The body of the email,
however, contains one or several paragraphs comprised of disjointed,
nonsensical, incomplete sentences as if they were gleaned from legitimate
emails and then pasted together. When I double click the email, I see that
there is a .gif attachment (which I’ve never opened). There are no
indications that this might be an HTML message, but when I choose “view
message in HTML,” I see that it is a pump and dump stock promotion with
such language as “Stock alert,” “breaking news,” “5-day target price,”
etc.
There is nothing in the body of the letter that I can create a message
rule
for and the rules I’ve created based on the HTML part of the email don’t
work (I check “Stop Processing”). I’ve gotten well over a hundred of
these
things and they keep coming. Does anybody have a solution. Thanks, Richard