Spam Goes Subliminal

Spam and security blogs are buzzing with news of a goofy new SUBLIMINAL SPAM message flying around. Like so much of the spam these days, the words you see in the message are actually an image -- a picture of words that cannot be read by spam filters. But in this case, the image is an animated gif that flashes "Buy, Buy BUY!" for a split second before returning to the static image. The image shown above is the actual gif.