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**mosleydl**

Enter your email address in setup with an extra character like

A spam bot will see this as an invalid address, but a real person will
figure out (hopefully) the extra character does not belong.

"213.57.1.12" www.012net wrote in message
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"Ron" ???
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Richard284 wrote:
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

Richard, I have had the same problem and was going to ask the same
question but you beat me to it. However, there may be something you can
do: try converting the HTML into plain text by going into Tools/
Options/Read and check the "read all messages in plain text" box. this
will convert all of the incoming crap from HTML to normal text. Then
you can look for key words like investor, invest ors, stocks, etc and
create filters for them.

Unfortunately, this won't work for spam messages that are as you say,
made up of meaningless phrases. I suspect spammers do this so that you
can't filter them without cutting out the email you want to receive,
but it will eliminate all other HTML based spam.

Ron