Re: Image spam hits a new level...

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

coderman to me:

> revenge of the captcha!

Yes, there are elements of "captcha" here, BUT that doesn't require the 
use of the randomly coloured background.  See, for example:

   http://www.jgc.org/tsc/

and scroll down to the "the tURLing test" entry.  Also read this entry 
from John's blog:

   http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/11/ransom-note-spam.html

That usage does not require this latest development and stock 
pump'n'dump scam spam is ideally suited to this kind of thing as all 
that the "victim" has to remember from the whole spam message is the 
four-character "ticker symbol" -- a very trivial CAPTCHA.

> [oh woe will be the hashcash payback...]

Indeed...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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