Image Spam: By the Numbers

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CSOonline has a great write up posted today that explains image spam, the methods used by spammers and why it is so hard to detect. Make sure you also check out the illustrated guide that breaks down the different methods so you can actually see how it works.

A year ago, fewer than five out of 100 e-mails were image spam, according to Doug Bowers of Symantec. Today, up to 40 percent are. Meanwhile, image spam is the reason spam traffic overall doubled in 2006, according to antispam company Borderware. It is expected to keep rising.
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A year ago, fewer than five out of 100 e-mails were image spam
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Wow, I guess I and everyone I know where on one side of that distribution curve, I'd like to meet some of these people who didn't get any spam.
 
wooops., didn't read the fine print... (ie the whole thing carefully) ... didn't see the "image" spam part of it.

Eitherway I don't auto-download images, so it's no big deal.
 
So this is why all the spam I seem to get are all blank.. I have my email client set to text-only.
 
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