Email SPAMmers become more creative

Published on 24 September 2007 by Alex in Email Marketing

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In the early days of computer era, when monitors could only display plain text rather than images, users would create pictures by carefully placing text characters. It’s called ASCII art, most examples of this art required a fixed width font.

I’ve got this spam gem today (RX medication ad):

Email spam
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And it’s not just random ASCII characters, they’re using complete words.

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4 Responses to “Email SPAMmers become more creative”

  1. SL Lindens says:

    wow.. that’s some effort just to spam advertise.

  2. Now that’s some grade A effort. I don’t know why you opened the email, I would be terrified it would be virus central inside. If I got an email like that I would probably buy their product, just because they put so much work into their spam.

  3. NDN says:

    I do like the Viagra comment on your Spam post. Now that is funny.

    I am too scared to click the link but good humor would be if it was a Rick Roll.

  4. Chelsa says:

    Now that’s some grade A effort. I don’t know why you opened the email, I would be terrified it would be virus central inside. If I got an email like that I would probably buy their product, just because they put so much work into their spam.

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