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An example of image spam intended to defeat optical character recognition
filtering techniques.
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OCR-evading spam image Posted Aug 24, 2006 11:00 UTC (Thu) by walles (subscriber, #954) [Link] This is still a step forward if it prevents spammers from posting clickable links.
If they have clickable links recognizable by browsers / e-mail readers, the same links will be recognizable by anti-spam software and can be used for filtering.
Not having clickable links will raise the threshold for people to respond to the scams.
OCR-evading spam image Posted Aug 26, 2006 10:52 UTC (Sat) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link] I'd say most spam that gets through nowadays already looks like a barely readable garbage that no intelligent reader would try reading at all.
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