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Archae

(46,298 posts) Fri Mar 28, 2014, 04:21 PM Mar 2014

I've been getting this strange spam lately...

Ads from solar power companies (and others,) about 3-4 a day with this in the subject line:

"?ISO-8859-15?B?V2lsbCB5b3VyIGxvY-W4g,YmUgYXBw,cm9-2ZWQgb3.IgZG_VuaWV,kPw==?="

Anyone else getting them?

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I've been getting this strange spam lately... (Original Post) Archae Mar 2014 OP

ISO 8859-15 drm604 Mar 2014 #1

I see, thanks. Archae Mar 2014 #2

drm604

(16,230 posts)

1. ISO 8859-15

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Fri Mar 28, 2014, 04:41 PM

Mar 2014

It's an encoding standard used to render foreign alphabets. Your email client (or your browser if it's webmail) doesn't know how to interpret ISO 8859-15 so it's just displaying it literally rather than decoding it. Someone who speaks the foreign language (or who regularly receives emails in it) would have an email client that would render the characters correctly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859

Archae

(46,298 posts)

2. I see, thanks.

Reply to drm604 (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 28, 2014, 06:16 PM

Mar 2014

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