Email In Image Dont Stop Harvesting?

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  • samsam
    So Fucking Banned
    • Jun 2002
    • 682
    #1

    Email In Image Dont Stop Harvesting?

    I just put a page up on a domain which is obscure with no traffic, no index and with no inlinks and i put my new email in an image form, the email was on that domain.

    next thing, i get a spam to that email. how did the spam read the email address from the image?
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    • SmokeyTheBear
      ►SouthOfHeaven
      • Jun 2004
      • 28609
      #2
      was the email [email protected]
      hatisblack at yahoo.com

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        • samsam
          So Fucking Banned
          • Jun 2002
          • 682
          #3
          yeah the email was in the format of:

          [email protected]

          how the hell did the spam read the email addy off the image?

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            • DarkJedi
              No Refunds Issued.
              • Feb 2001
              • 28301
              #4
              They didn't read it.

              They auto generate a list for your domain with the most used words (like admin, webmaster, info, contact)

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                • borked
                  Totally Borked
                  • Feb 2005
                  • 6284
                  #5
                  the best way is to use javascript to delay displaying the image until 1 sec (heck even 1ms) after the page has fully loaded. Of course the script has to pull the email address from a local file/database or else the email would be vivible in the javascript code....

                  For coding work - hit me up on andy // borkedcoder // com
                  (consider figuring out the email as test #1)


                  All models are wrong, but some are useful. George E.P. Box. p202

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                    • $5 submissions
                      I help you SUCCEED
                      • Nov 2003
                      • 32195
                      #6
                      Originally posted by DarkJedi
                      They didn't read it.

                      They auto generate a list for your domain with the most used words (like admin, webmaster, info, contact)
                      Yep. Next step: automated crap words ending in @yourdomain being used as "reply to:" email. Getting those spoof spam bounces is a bitch

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                        • hydro
                          Confirmed User
                          • Dec 2003
                          • 4216
                          #7
                          Actually there is some software in the spam market to read emails from images but its almost always wrong and very slow so they likely did a directory attack on your mail server to capture valid emails.

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                            • StarkReality
                              Confirmed User
                              • May 2004
                              • 4444
                              #8
                              I have several domains without any configured email adress that are just registered and not hosted anywhere and I get loads of spam for them. It's sad, but a mail adress in your domain contact information is already enough to start this shit

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