Comments on: ASCII-Art Spam http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/11/17/ascii-art-spam/ Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Venture Capital in New York City Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:19:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: candice http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/11/17/ascii-art-spam/#comment-15059 candice Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:26:01 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/11/17/ascii-art-spam/#comment-15059 I remember textmode-quake, that was really cool. My current favorite type of spam is something of a take on random word spam, which is taking paragraphs out of postings to tech mailing lists and faqs and stuff. It's slipping past my filters (and gmail's) due to being too similar to real mail. I remember textmode-quake, that was really cool.

My current favorite type of spam is something of a take on random word spam, which is taking paragraphs out of postings to tech mailing lists and faqs and stuff. It’s slipping past my filters (and gmail’s) due to being too similar to real mail.

]]> By: Lee Semel http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/11/17/ascii-art-spam/#comment-12529 Lee Semel Sat, 18 Nov 2006 02:16:57 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/11/17/ascii-art-spam/#comment-12529 I got my first 'captcha spam' yesterday! It consisted of a single graphic containing a paragraph of twisted, contorted text, like a website captcha, containing the spam message. They must be trying bypass any spam filters that use OCR on images included in emails (I didn't know there were spam filters that do this, but apparently there are!). I got my first ‘captcha spam’ yesterday! It consisted of a single graphic containing a paragraph of twisted, contorted text, like a website captcha, containing the spam message. They must be trying bypass any spam filters that use OCR on images included in emails (I didn’t know there were spam filters that do this, but apparently there are!).

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