The majority of my spam recently has involved stock recommendations encoded as an embedded GIF. Examples of some less grammatically-challenged subject lines are: “garbage can Frisbee”, “official espresso”, “noisy symmetry”, “crutch innuendo”, “fabricate hiccup” and “depraved give-and-take”.
Today I received an e-mail that illustrates how spammers are adopting image manipulation techniques used in captchas to encode their images.
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I think this is interesting as the spammers are using a technique that has previously been deployed against them (to hinder automated sign-up for free e-mail accounts and blog comment spam, for example).
Personally, I use the Qurb white list e-mail filter which does a good job of catching these messages.
November 15, 2006 at 4:38 pm |
If the Quirb white list filter did indeed do a good job of catching your spam e-mail you wouldn’t have written this article
November 15, 2006 at 4:59 pm |
The filtered messages are quarantined into a folder, and a pop-up is displayed which allows you to approve or block the sender.
December 2, 2006 at 12:53 pm |
Let’s give these guys a zillion email addresses to play with for a while … ;o)
December 2, 2006 at 1:27 pm |
That’s OK with me.