The Scourge of Image Spam

How the latest iteration of junk mail is beating filters and filling inboxes. Image Spam—an e-mail solicitation that uses graphical images of text to avoid filters—is not new. Recently, though, it reached an unprecedented level of sophistication and took off. A year ago, fewer than five out of 100 e-mails were image spam, according to Doug Bowers of Symantec. Today, up to 40 percent are. Meanwhile, image spam is the reason spam traffic overall doubled in 2006. It is expected to keep rising.

This article also has an excellent interactive graphic page which demonstrates the various methods used by image spammers and how it works.

Read the article HERE.