I'm writing about this without even doing a google search so if this is really obvious, just ignore the post and I'll search for it soon.
I was reading my email today and after the 5th email claiming that my paypal account has been suspended and I have to “log in” to fix it I realized a really simple rule that would fix this issue.
All you have to do is scan the email for a href's. Many times the text for the a href will be a url itself. Something like http://www.paypal.com. So if you search for these, and verify that the href target matches the text, you'd have a pretty good rule to detect that it's spam. I can't think of any reason to display a url and set the target to something other than that url.
So does anyone know how to write this kind of filter and plug it into outlook?
posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 1:23 PM