Re: An OCR plug-in for Spamassassin

[Axel Pettinger <api () worldonline de>]

Nick FitzGerald wrote:
> I saw a suggestion somewhere it was the Kuvayev gang, but regardless 
> of who it was, but a lot of "penny stock" spam back in January (maybe 
> back into last December?) through into early February (from memory) 
> was of the form:
>
>    <nonsense text block>
>    <(relatively) unique "message text as image">
>    <nonsense text block>

The text in my last post was from such a stock spam mail.

> The middle bit was an image of text on a coloured background with 
> three randomized components.  The background contained light (so as 
> to not terribly degrade readbilility) noise (pixels close to, but not 
> quite the same as the background colour, and occasional black 
> pixels), the images had a random frame (ranging from a band a few 
> pixels wide to multi-line affairs) and the frame was degraded with 
> (heavier) noise (random black pixels across the frame and encroaching 
> slightly into the main image).

I think I've seen such spam mails. The image in my stock spam mail
sample contains, apart from the text, many colored pixels.

Regards,
Axel Pettinger
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