Wow, it seems the spam masters have really gotten the better of the Bayesian spam blocking goodies installed on gmail. To be fair it does land in my spam folder, but at least 5 a day, and such a simple technique: take random human phrases, attach picture with advertisement, stir..send. I suppose the next step is to get neural nets to recognize the images as ads, but that's really just an arms race that'll happen between the spammers and the webmasters. Unfortunately, blocking ranges of IP addresses just encourages spammers to hack unsuspecting users machines in order to send spam from their IPs. So what is the social engineering solution?
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The sad thing is that spam actually works. Sure, spammers are scum, but I find it more depressing that their spamming actually yields results.
If you think about the resources and effort that go into combatting spam, to stay ahead, spammers must put the same resources into generating it. I think the key is to make the return for spamming non existant. People need to stop clicking on the fucking links.
I read that one of the most lucrative spam tactics is to buy cheap shares, then spam people to buy them, price is driven up, sell, profit.
Who are the idiots who buy shares based on a recommendation in an image attached to an unsolicited email?!
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