Yes !
These are invisible words (text in white color over white background). Some filters
evaluate the ratio "usable text/message sige" on html messages. Adding this kind of thing
allows to maintain this ratio high enough to pass the filter.
Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
I started getting weird spam samples in the last few days. The spam
message consists of words, one after the other, with an image in the
middle. Looks like another attempt to defeat the filters, here is a sample:
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