Cool Viagra vs. Cialis Spam

August 25th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Spam Favorites | Leave a comment »

Spammers are always looking for ways to get their message past anti-spam filters, and HTML manipulations are part of their regular bag of tricks, but this one just looked so cool I wanted to share it with you. At first glance, it looks like the spammer simply wrote “Viagra vs. Cialis” vertically (that in itself [...]

Pornographic Image Spam

September 24th, 2007 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Spam Favorites | Leave a comment »

Image spam on the whole is on the decline, and stock pump-and-dump has all but disappeared. But image spam hasn’t been eliminated altogether. Lately our spam detection center has seen a significant increase in pornographic image spam (the URLs are part of the picture), as well as “cut” image spam. The cut images appear to [...]