False Spam are messages that are blank or contain
garbled text with no links or real message.
Yes, they are unwanted
messages but there is no real 'body' to the Spam - just some garbled words. The
message that the Spammer wanted to send was not included and thus these messages
are ineffective as Spam.
Why would the Spammers want to send 'False
Spam'?
Just speculating here but it could be anything from someone doing a
'test spam run' that got away on them and sent nonsensical random text without
the advertisement. If that is the case then 'Silly Spammer - you wasted your
money on this one!'
It could also possibly be an effort to see what
did get through by utilizing the 'Out of Office' or 'Delivery Receipts' to
capture valid e-mail addresses. If the Spammer gets any response back except
'undeliverable' then they know that there is a valid e-mail address on the other
side. It is a good idea to not send these 'Out of Office' messages outside your
organization if at all possible. It is also a good idea to disable the 'Delivery
or Read receipts' in both your e-mail client and your mail server as some people rely on them.
A third possibility is that Spammers may
be trying to poison the Bayesian or statistical database by sending out these
random words and phrases. A poisoned database will make it that much harder to
pick the Spam out of the noise and could result in more false
positives.
Rest assured that CudaMail is working hard
to clean up these 'False Spam' messages as quickly as we can.
- Shaun