The Yahoo spam scam I blogged about here (and created a checker for here) is actually a pretty big deal.
Looks like users who go ahead and click on this link, then are prompted with a Obfuscated image that is pretty much the spammer’s free ticket to getting another free yahoo account.
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News sites carrying articles about this Spam scam
1 Jan 2001 at 12:00 am
1 Nov 2004 at 8:04 pm
No plans yet for TXGV. I don’t know if I’m still coming up to visit.
1 Nov 2004 at 9:50 pm
I know that is still not the right term for such images, but what is?
It’s called Captcha! ;)
2 Nov 2004 at 12:25 pm
Added to VB’s KB.