I get a lot of spam. In the subject it might say something about Home Warranty. The sender will say Home Warranty (the actual sender will be randomwords@randomwords.com).
But whenever I use my email’s search engine, to delete all emails that say “Home Warranty”, it can’t find them.
Do people usually just ignore these types of emails?
There is a really well known homograph where they say https://www.аррӏе.com/ but the A in Apple is cyrillic not ASCII.
You’d think the server-side spam filters would be set up to catch that. Why mix two alphabets in a URL other than to do something slimy?
It’s the server doing the meddling, don’t forget that! Email servers have two things to base an analysis off of: the trustworthyness of the senders header data and the content.
Header analysis will quickly kill messages from the fake servers but only after a certain amount of spam is identified - the computer doesn’t “read” the alphabet, it just sees valid encoded symbols. It’s the humans job to find the traffic lights, so to say.
And content analysis is a cold war of attrition: building better filters leads to better tricks leads to better filters, etc.
The only way I have found to stay spam free is customizing my address for each potential sender (i.e. scipilemmy@mydomain.net).that was a lot of work to set up though…
