Stock Spam Development

Stock spam seems to be quite profitable. I get a lot of e-mails promising
me great profit if I buy certain stock. In order to escape spam filters
the spammers have proven to be very innovative.

• They use images instead of plain text messges
• They use animated GIFs for hiding their text from OCR software/li>
• They draw funny, captcha-like images, hoping the receivers can read it
  better than OCR software/li>

Today I received a spam e-mail containing only a link to
ImageShack. Guess what was behind it?

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Posted by Raphael Wimmer on April 29, 2007

https://raphaelwimmer.wordpress.com/2007/04/29/stock-spam-development/