[aklug] Re: Just Wondering...

On Sat, 9 May 2009, Christopher Howard wrote:

> Kinda curious if any of you guys had a theory on this...
>
> Is there any profit behind spam e-mail? Or is it meant purely to annoy
> people?
>
> Lately I've been the victim of the ruthless "You Can Do It" spammer, who
> has sent me several dozen copies of an advertisement for viagra and
> other such meds. The spammer is (frightenly) intelligent about it, as in
> every message sent he (she?) changes all of the headers to ensures that
> I can't filter the message out. The message body itself contains no
> text, but only a png, whose name itself changes every time. He has even
> slightly altered several pixels on the png for each message. My spam
> filters only catch about 2 out of every 10 or so sent.
>
> Anyway, I just was wondering what the point was. Does a spammer really
> think that if he sends me 25 copies of the same viagra spam, that I'll
> go checkout his website?
>
> End rant.

FYI: this is one reason why I added gocr and ocrad support to mimedefang.
In this day & age you pretty much have to extract text from images in order
to effectively filter this kind of spam.

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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Received on Mon May 11 08:14:09 2009