Re: Embedded images in spam not parsing

Chris Wright wrote:
> Antispam Knight wrote:
>> "Mike Easter"
>>> nighthawke wrote:

>>>> Been getting spam that has no text in body, just a image.
>>>> Ideas on how to deal with it?

>>> That is a stock spam which has no links in the body anyway, even in
>>> the graphic -- all that is reported or reportable is the
>>> spamsource, which SC offers to do.
>>
>> I paste the base64 .gif into
>> http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/Base64Decode/ & let it
>> display. Of course there's *some* risk, since you have to allow it
>> to come back binary, but it shows the pic so you can get the ticker
>> symbol & user copy enforcement at sec.gov. Been doing this with
>> every one of 'em.
>> AK

> Excuse my ignorance here, but what is the benefit of doing that?

I'm going to stay out of the Chris-AK discussion about that, I'm just
poking my nose in here to make some minor clarifications.

> ticker symbol and user copy enforcement? What do you mean by that?
> And you mention gif, where most spam images I get are jpeg.

This item had the attachment a b64 vanylon.gif which depicted almost all
of the content of this announcement
http://www.advfn.com/news_Circle-Group-Holdings-Completes-Private-Placement-Friday-March-31--2006--9-05-a-_14852491.html
makeoneline or use http://snipurl.com/otyc

I started to paste the .gif into .spam, but then I saw that I could
simply make a link which contained all of the language of the graphic.

Personally, I don't know why the SEC would be interested in the spam
stock promotional graphic any more than they would be interested in the
website announcement at the link above.  The gist is that the AMEX CXN
company, makers of Z-Trim, announced some forward looking stuff about a
George Foreman promotion and some .au sales and then also made the
standard SEC required disclaimers.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin