Strip Mining
TA!Strip!Image
16 October 2006
Description
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Example

Each of the 17 horizontal strips cuts fairly randomly through the text making OCR on each strip not very useful. The spammer has then mounted each strip in its correct position on a transparent background and put each strip into an animated GIF. Here, for example, are a couple of strips:


The end result is that only once the entire image animation has completed is the complete spam visible making this a challenge for spam filters. And the spammer has thrown in a couple of frames at the end of the image, that get displayed after such a long delay (8 minutes) that they essentially never get shown. But those final frames are there just to throw off a spam filter trying to find the actual image.
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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