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Subliminal Spam Using an Animated GIF

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-are-getting-sleeeeepy dept.

JohnGrahamCumming writes "Everyone's noticed the recent flood of image spam (including the SpamAssassin developers who are working on an OCR-extension to beat it), but take a look at this spam containing a subliminal message flashed every 17 seconds to try to entice you to buy the stock being pumped. Does this work? Warning: link shows the actual spam; don't blame me if you lose money on this stock!"

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  1. Re:New slashdot business model by Buran · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hi. Do you always make passes this pathetic at us, loser?

    - jennifer

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    i am a soviet space shuttle