Re: Image-only stock spam -- nice try!

2006-08-28 Thread Plenz
OCR feature already in 2005. Unfortunately SPAVI is rather unknown since it is an online program and I can not publish it on all those free software pages. http://www.spavi.de SPAVI - the online spam and virus killer -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Image-only-stock-spam--

Re: Image-only stock spam -- nice try!

2006-01-20 Thread Kelson
I received a whole batch of these this morning -- with a different style of image! Instead of a rotated screenshot from a plain-text doc, these are screenshots of a fomatted pitch with bold, colors, etc. and a little bit of noise applied -- not enough to interfere with any OCR I've ever used,

Re: Image-only stock spam -- nice try!

2006-01-17 Thread Brian Godette
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 02:52 pm, Justin Mason wrote: > Brian Godette writes: > > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 01:02 pm, Justin Mason wrote: > > > yeah, we were chatting about that on John-Graham Cumming's weblog. All > > > I can think of is that they're attempting to evade another anti-spam > > >

Re: Image-only stock spam -- nice try!

2006-01-17 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Godette writes: > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 01:02 pm, Justin Mason wrote: > > yeah, we were chatting about that on John-Graham Cumming's weblog. All I > > can think of is that they're attempting to evade another anti-spam > > product, one that

Re: Image-only stock spam -- nice try!

2006-01-17 Thread Matt Kettler
Brian Godette wrote: > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 01:02 pm, Justin Mason wrote: > >>yeah, we were chatting about that on John-Graham Cumming's weblog. All I >>can think of is that they're attempting to evade another anti-spam >>product, one that uses OCR, but is secret/proprietary hence *we* don't

Re: Image-only stock spam -- nice try!

2006-01-17 Thread Brian Godette
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 01:02 pm, Justin Mason wrote: > yeah, we were chatting about that on John-Graham Cumming's weblog. All I > can think of is that they're attempting to evade another anti-spam > product, one that uses OCR, but is secret/proprietary hence *we* don't > know about it. Or the

Re: Image-only stock spam -- nice try!

2006-01-17 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelson Vibber writes: > Got an interesting variation on those "Strong Buy!" stock scams. > Instead of a straight message, they'd taken a screen shot of the pitch > and rotated it slightly (presumably to make OCR more difficult), then > placed the i

Image-only stock spam -- nice try!

2006-01-17 Thread Kelson Vibber
Got an interesting variation on those "Strong Buy!" stock scams. Instead of a straight message, they'd taken a screen shot of the pitch and rotated it slightly (presumably to make OCR more difficult), then placed the image in an email. And yet check out the score it got: Message scored 14.2 p