What is Obfuscated Spam?
Obfuscated spam is email that has been disguised in an attempt to fool anti-spam software. Spammers are constantly trying to find ways to modify or conceal their messages so that anti-spam software can’t read them. Example of such obfuscation is putting spaces between the letters of the word, hoping that anti-spam software will not read the letters as one word e.g., Viagra can be spelt as V I A G R A to disguise anti-spam. Another common technique is to use misspellings or no-standard characters.
