You're probably thinking “well, no suprise there”, but I not meaning what you would initially think.

This morning I received over 100 spam mails in my inbox (a daily occurence) which although on a common theme were promising all sorts of things. For once though, I decided to take a look at a few of these mails and noticed something quite suprising.

These mails are now trying to so hard to get to your inbox that in order to do so they are having to obfuscate their true content so much that they are rendering themselves useless. I have seen examples of spam that contain no contact details at all, some which are so clouded with random characters that they are unreadable, and some with URLs so messed up that clicking them doesn't take you to where the spammer wanted you to go anyway.

So, could we possibly be on the verge of winning the war against email-borne spam? Could the anti-spam devices now be getting so good it is now financially viable for a spammer to use the email medium (which unfortunately means that they resort to something else)?

Oh, and if you know anyone who has ever bought anything from a spammer, please tell them to stop…