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MSE weekly "moneytips" email now being marked as spam

rpaco
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edited 26 June 2025 at 9:21AM in Site feedback and Forum Help
In the last couple of days (From 23/06/25 on, so far.) several financial emails that I receive on a regular basis have been marked as spam. the msemoneytips is one of them. 
The reasoning given on the inward generated code is something like this below, true logical, but applied wrongly. 
 3.0 KAM_REFI               Real Estate / Re-Finance Spam
  0.0 T_KAM_HTML_FONT_INVALID Test for Invalidly Named or Formatted Colors
                             in HTML
  0.0 LOTS_OF_MONEY          Huge... sums of money
  0.0 T_MONEY_PERCENT        X% of a lot of money for you
  2.2 KAM_NIGERIAN           Nigerian Scam and Variants
 -0.0 DKIMWL_WL_HIGH         DKIMwl.org - High trust sender
X-Spam-Flag: YES
 Even the high DKIM rating does not let it off!
I have suspicions that an AI has been let loose in spamhaus, spamex or spam-assassin and done some creative thinking. 

As we know AIs not only lie and make things up, but also have insufficient training in some areas. 
So far even whitelisting the senders involved has not worked.  
Anyone else? If so, how fixed?  

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  • MSE_James
    MSE_James Posts: 1,838
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    Thank you - I've passed this on to the relevant team who are keeping an eye on things
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  • rpaco
    rpaco Posts: 6
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    Rechecked my whitelist and it is now ok. Not marked as spam. However Confused.com is now marked thus! 
  • Eco_Miser
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    rpaco said:
    In the last couple of days (From 23/06/25 on, so far.) several financial emails that I receive on a regular basis have been marked as spam. the msemoneytips is one of them. 
    The reasoning given on the inward generated code is something like this below, true logical, but applied wrongly. 
     3.0 KAM_REFI               Real Estate / Re-Finance Spam
      0.0 T_KAM_HTML_FONT_INVALID Test for Invalidly Named or Formatted Colors
                                 in HTML
      0.0 LOTS_OF_MONEY          Huge... sums of money
      0.0 T_MONEY_PERCENT        X% of a lot of money for you
      2.2 KAM_NIGERIAN           Nigerian Scam and Variants
     -0.0 DKIMWL_WL_HIGH         DKIMwl.org - High trust sender
    X-Spam-Flag: YES
     Even the high DKIM rating does not let it off!
    I have suspicions that an AI has been let loose in spamhaus, spamex or spam-assassin and done some creative thinking. 

    As we know AIs not only lie and make things up, but also have insufficient training in some areas. 
    So far even whitelisting the senders involved has not worked.  
    Anyone else? If so, how fixed?  
    It doesn't have a high DKIM rating - that scores as 0.0, (meaning msemoneytips is not a High trust sender), as do all the others except 
     3.0 KAM_REFI               Real Estate / Re-Finance Spam
    2.2 KAM_NIGERIAN Nigerian Scam and Variants
    Incidentally, my gas & electric bills get marked as spam, something about a solar energy scam.

    I've got round it by having all spam delivered to my inbox (the only spam I get are these false positives).



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