It’s Ba-ack… Image Spam Blast from the Past

November 16th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Spam Favorites | Leave a comment »

Remember when image spam was something new and kind of cool? (that was early 2006 in case you forgot). Why did it nearly disappear? For one thing, the anti-spam filters got better at blocking it, so it wasn’t as profitable for the spammers. But it looks like the spammers haven’t given up completely, and this [...]

More Pharma Spam with Microsoft Content

May 6th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Spam Favorites | 1 Comment »

You may recall that we wrote about spammers who used Microsoft hotmail content within the source of their messages, hidden from the reader (except for those techies who right-click & hit “view source”). Well, I spammers must have liked the results and wanted to take it a step further. The latest trick is to put [...]