Found this one post: guess we should look for BUY!! in the animated gif? The problem with inline images now, is that there are a lot of people putting bmp's, gif's, jpegs in their 'sigs' now. Whatever happened to the RFC for sigs that said 4 lines max?
<http://www.securitypark.co.uk/pfv.asp?articleid=25771> A new "pump-and-dump" stock spam campaign uses an animated graphic to display a "subliminal" message to potential investors. Animated GIF graphics are composed of a number of frames, which are shown in succession. This is often used for animation on websites, but has recently been adopted by spammers in their attempt to try and avoid detection by anti-spam products. In a spam campaign seen by Sophos researchers an embedded image attempts to artificially inflate the price of shares in a company called Trimax. However, unlike the many other similar scam emails the graphic briefly flashes up a message saying "BUY!!!" approximately every fifteen seconds. -- Michael Scheidell, CTO 561-999-5000, ext 1131 SECNAP Network Security Corporation Keep up to date with latest information on IT security: Real time security alerts: http://www.secnap.com/news
