[sniffer] Spam no using CAPTCHA!

2008-06-11 Thread Daniel Bayerdorffer
Hi Everyone, I just sent a spam sample to Message Sniffer, that was using CAPTCHA, it said CIALIS in the CAPTCHA. I'm curios to see what Pete thinks of this new tactic? Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. www.numberall.com PO Box 187,

[sniffer] Re: Spam no using CAPTCHA!

2008-06-11 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Daniel, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 9:19:47 AM, you wrote: Hi Everyone, I just sent a spam sample to Message Sniffer, that was using CAPTCHA, it said CIALIS in the CAPTCHA. I'm curios to see what Pete thinks of this new tactic? On first look it is simply another way to use an

[sniffer] Re: Spam no using CAPTCHA!

2008-06-11 Thread Greg Coffey
Fortunately, from what I've read, CAPTCHA is about worthless if effectiveness counts. Frustrating for humans and not much of a barrier to the bots. -- Original Message -- From: Colbeck, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Message Sniffer Community

[sniffer] Re: Spam no using CAPTCHA!

2008-06-11 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Andrew, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 11:48:55 AM, you wrote: ... and it also means that OCR based spam filtering is succesful enough for the spammers to adopt CAPTCHA-style text-obfuscation-in-images as an evasion method. Possibly, but I wouldn't put too fine a point on it. It's very easy