Re: Image spam hits a new level...

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

David Lodge wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:39:13 -0000, Nick FitzGerald  
> <nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:
> > > Yep, it's getting quite creative.
> > And there are other reasons than "OCR-busting" that these approaches
> > are being used (and it's NOT hash-busting), but I'm not sure a public
> > list is the place to discuss this yet...
>
> They are getting creative - I got my first ASCII art spam yesterday, ...

"ASCII art" spam is so totally January 2005...

   http://www.jgc.org/tsc/   (then search in-page for "ASCII art")

> ... which  
> surprised me!

The recent ones I've seen (starting about five or six days back) are 
very similar to the sample in the asciiart2.zip linked from the TSC 
page, forming "banner" style letters from multiple rows and columns of 
ASCII characters in an array (which only really works for fixed-pitch 
font display or if suitably formatted in HTML).  That sample is from 
late-Feb 2005.


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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