Seen that? – 1/3 of spam pictures

1/3 of spam pictures I got Spam?!

Seen that? - 1/3 of spam pictures

You can say a lot of things about spammers, but you can't say they are not resourceful. Once they've seen how much of their illicit e-mail is being stopped by filters, they've soon figured out to use .gif (picture) spam format to get past the anti-spam software. Monsters and Critics Michael Thieroff reports that almost 1/3 of today's spam is in fact pictures: "Olaf Pursche, a security expert for the Hamburg-based magazine [...] Read More


Mapping spam I got Spam?!

We already know how many spammers there are, and now Discover shows us where there are hiding. Discover Magazine posted a nice map of spam hotspots, which was made by pinpointing origin of over 1 billion spam emails. The most of it comes from the US, which might surprise you. But the sad truth is that we are perhaps the most computer-stupid nation, since most of the spam comes from zombie [...] Read More


Gif spam again I got Spam?!

I have noticed that even though our providers promised to make .gif spam go away, I still get bundles of it (of course, it's automatically redirected to my Thunderbird trash folder). Although many of spam-fighters started employing the ocr tehnique to distinguish unsolicited adverts from pictures people send you, that tehnique is becoming obsolete, so it's advantage for the spammer team again. How come, you might ask? Well, first of all, [...] Read More


Spam is here to stay The Search Engine Weblog

Spam has found a fertile dwelling and it is here to stay. Why? This is because eliminating spam is next to impossible. There are persons who receive 50 emails every day and they consider it part of their daily life. The fact is businesses – whether big or small – have a strong motivation to send bulk email. This is because compared to regular mails or hiring telemarketers, said method [...] Read More


Are Online Dating Seniors Less Likely To Use Pictures? The Dating Weblog

There was an article last week about online dating which discussed it from the perspective of daters in their fifties and sixties. At one point, the article mentioned that the woman who was waiting at a restaurant for her date to show up didn't know what he looked like. And that leads one to wonder … are online dating seniors less likely to concern themselves with photos than someone in [...] Read More


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