The Sieve
TA!Sieve!Image
01 November 2006
Description
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Example
Here is what you see in the spam message:
The actual image however has the following three frames:


The first image is the GIF's background and is displayed for 10ms then the second image is layered on top with a transparent background so that the two images merge together and the image the spammer wants you to see appears. That image remains on screen for 100,000 ms (or 1 minute 40 seconds). After that the image is completely blanked out by the third frame.
Note that it's not the entire image that's transparent, not even the white background, but just those pixels necessary to make the black pixels underneath show through. If you look carefully above you can see that some of pixels appear yellow (which is the background color of this site) indicating where the transparency is.
See also this blog entry.
Absolute Zero
Animated Noise
Big Header-ed
Catch a Wave
Chop GUI
Control Freak
Doing The Twist
Excel Sent
Floatation Device
In the background
No Whitespace, No Cry
Pretty Darn Fancy
Pump up the volume
Script Writer
Slice and Dice
Strip Mining
The Big Picture
The Matrix
The Office
The Sieve
The Small Picture
Times Square
Whiter Shade of Pale
See also
Spammers' Compendium
SPUTR
Resources
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