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New spam

I saw a new spam innovation in my inbox today. It was an HTML formatted email, using a microscopic font that spelled out the message in banner form using random characters. So a portion of what I saw looked like this:

I’m surprised this hasn’t been used to greater effect before. Wonder how long it will take the filters to learn this trick!

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Published:: Feb 24 2008 / 1:26 pm

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Michael Feb 29 2008 / 9am

This is similar to image spam, where an image of words is used instead of the words themselves. This might work better since a lot of email programs automatically block images.

Spam is big business. Symantec has shifted a lot of resources towards spam and away from anti-virus. With more sophisticated techniques like this, they are reduced to using white or black lists.

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