ASCII Art Spam
By kenya on Feb 29, 2008 in Email
This is hilarious so I had to post it. It appears that spammers are resorting to ASCII art to avoid getting caught by spam filters. What year is it again?
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Is this a new trend for spam or is this an isolated incident? Is this because emails containing only an image are getting caught by spam filters more often? I definitely don’t know this as I am not in the spam business but I imagine some spammer R&D guy like “I have an idea. How about ASCII art? The filters would never catch it.”
If you are interested in reminiscing about green bar paper and dot matrix printers, you can generate your own ASCII art with this ASCII Generator. I made this:
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